An internal official document, from the British colonial Executive Council of the islands ( Executive Council Paper 57/26 ), dated March 24, 2026 and entitled "Department of Mineral Resources staffing" , which Agenda Malvinas had access to, provides data of invaluable journalistic value to contextualize the true pace of the advance of the illegal oil exploitation project in the Malvinas.

This record from the usurping administration demolishes any attempt to downplay the British advance or characterize it as mere "corporate speculation." While in Tierra del Fuego the political landscape is entangled in a crisis that is nearing its end, and the Argentine Foreign Ministry responds with innocuous press releases, the colonial machinery in the South Atlantic has already decreed that the technical discussion phase is over: phases 1 and 2 of production at the Sea Lion field have been formally approved, and a massive expansion of its state-owned facility to manage the stolen crude has been launched.

The document reveals the political directive approved by the members of the colonial Executive Council, which explicitly orders "noting the need for significant additional capacity in the Mineral Resources Department following the approval of field development and production for phases 1 and 2 of the Sea Lion oil field's Northern Development Area" .

The scale of the potential gain is so immense that the colonial bureaucracy itself admits in the technical document that the project will double the Malvina Islands' Gross Domestic Product (GDP) , displacing fishing as the main contributor to the islands' economy . This explains the true driving force behind the financial protection that Israeli hedge funds and London lobbyists secured earlier this year: for global markets, the risk posed by Argentine warnings is nonexistent because the occupation is already implementing the budget and expanding its offices in preparation for the start of commercial extraction .

Budgetary engineering and new positions for plunder

Far from abstract statements, the account in Paper 57/26 details how the illegal British government expands its staff with overseas hydrocarbon industry professionals ( overseas appointments ), who will even be guaranteed official state housing provided by the colony.

To finance this bureaucratic expansion, the Council approved an immediate budget increase of up to £332,000 annually (US$450,000 / $630,000,000) earmarked exclusively to cover salaries, market supplements, and bonuses for four new highly qualified positions. This is in addition to an initial £10,000 (US$13,000 / $18,000,000) for relocation logistical expenses and £6,000 (US$7,700) for airfare for the technicians' immediate family members.

The revelation in the document is that these salaries do not represent a cost to London's coffers: they will be self-financed directly through the Production Area License Fee , which is automatically activated when the deposit enters its first phase of exploitation; in addition to the collection of regulatory fees for reviewing the technical compliance of Navitas and Rockhopper .

With ours. The cost of bureaucratic plunder in the global market

In order to attract highly qualified professionals from abroad ( overseas appointments ), the colonial administrative apparatus will not pay ordinary public salaries, but rather salaries based on the standards of the global offshore oil industry (based on the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico markets). The official account in the declassified document details precisely the functions and budgets allocated to these new "commissioners" of oil stolen on Argentine soil:

The budgetary protection of dispossession

As the investigation by Agenda Malvinas has been demonstrating, the entirety of this costly global oil structure is financed directly with stolen Argentine resources: the budget is covered by the Production Area License Fee (PALF) , a fee extracted from the Sea Lion field itself that is activated when moving to the exploitation phase.

While the response from Tierra del Fuego and the nation remains stuck in the comfort of belated administrative pronouncements, the British colony has already arranged for the conversion of the old VPU facilities in Hillside to inaugurate in July or August a new corporate headquarters with the capacity to house up to 28 permanent technicians dedicated exclusively to guarding and validating the dispossession of the Argentine continental shelf.