The Falkland Islanders have recently realised that it is apparently none of our business if they want to extract the oil and have started the process of licencing for the development of the Sealion a… (View Post)

Stopping new licences stops new fields. You can't even do a seismic survey without a licence. And no one is now going to bother investing in existing fields because they only remain viable if yo… (View Post)

It was arch-Remainer Scott who decided to bring up Brexit yet again in a completely unrelated discussion. I agree with you that we should move on. But poor old Scott seems incapable of this. (View Post)

Hence the connector from Algeria tp the UK. This seems a pretty sensible way of doing things. (View Post)

So long as you don't get one of those rather common polar highs which cause very cold, very calm weather. Hence the reason for backup systems. (View Post)