The advance of oil colonialism in the South Atlantic has just taken a leap forward, rendering the empty words of Argentine diplomacy utterly ridiculous. International regulatory documents and specialized energy sector reports ( Bnamericas ) reveal that the Israeli operator Navitas Petroleum not only maintains its plan to begin commercial extraction unchanged, but has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU ) to incorporate a second floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit in the Sea Lion field. The objective is clear: to accelerate the development of additional barrels and raise production capacity to unprecedented levels of plunder.

Navigating war in the Middle East

The licensees' report reveals the level of corporate speed at which international capital moves, in contrast to the exasperating slowness of the Fuegian and national bureaucracy.

Due to escalating tensions and the security situation stemming from the conflict with Iran in the Middle East, Navitas and Rockhopper decided to move the refurbishment work on the first platform, the FPSO Aoka Mizu (with a capacity of 55,000 barrels per day), directly to shipyards in Asia. Rockhopper CEO Samuel Moody himself hailed this decision to the markets as a "prudent move" that ensures the project proceeds exactly as planned, setting the start of drilling and well completion for early 2027 and the extraction of the first barrel for the first half of 2028 .

A second platform to multiply the loot

The real alarm for Argentine sovereignty lies in the signing of the new Memorandum of Understanding for a second mega-floating surface production (FPSO) platform . This structure will add a colossal capacity of another 125,000 barrels per day .

And we are now facing not just one extraction phase, but two. The first with an FPSO ( 55,000 b/d) and the accelerated deployment of this second unit ( 125,000 b/d), with which the Anglo-Israeli consortium is on track to extract 180,000 barrels of oil per day in the waters of the Argentine continental shelf.

The timeline of physical dispossession on the coast

Far removed from press releases and fleeting media campaigns by the Tierra del Fuego government in its political pursuit of some positive national impact, work on the islands and coastal infrastructure near Puerto Argentino is already underway. For example:

When Malvinas Secretary Andrés Dachary or Governor Gustavo Melella publicize complaints before the Israel Securities Authority - the text of which they refuse to disclose - and supposedly seek to warn investors about "vulnerabilities" surrounding the Sea Lion Field ; the reality of the oil market responds with contracts and memoranda, signed to bring in a second platform of 125,000 barrels per day.

This is clearly reflected by Bnamericas : capital is not being deceived; with its investments, it is accelerating the timelines for port infrastructure and logistics in the islands, because it knows that Argentine resistance is just a backdrop on the calendar of historical events, which is renewed and expires every April 2nd.

While the province pretends to litigate, it is not clear how or with whom; the Anglo-Israeli consortium is already building accommodations in the Malvina Islands for the technical personnel who will drill in our sea in less than a year.

It is clear that the project not only did not stop in the face of Gustavo Melella 's alleged complaint to Israel, but that the companies used the Middle East crisis to move the engineering to Asia and accelerate towards a second phase of extraction at Sea Lion .

In the midst of a reconfiguration of the world economy and with a barrel of oil above US$105 ; Navitas and Rockhopper are in the Malvinas, not as spectators; but as hosts of the party that will signify the materialization of the great theft of Argentine hydrocarbon heritage, planned by Great Britain.