article_snippet.sent: Buenos Aires responded by accusing three British oil firms of working without permission.
article_snippet.sent: Buenos Aires said Buenos Aires was taking legal action against three British and two US companies for ‘exploration activities for fossil fuels on the Argentine continental shelf without obtaining the corresponding authorisation’.
article_snippet.sent: The legal complaint listed Rockhopper Exploration, Premier Oil, Falkland Oil and Gas Limited and US firms Noble Energy and Edison International – accusing Falkland Oil and Gas Limited and US firms of sending a semi-submersible rig to explore a basin 120 miles north of islands
article_snippet.sent: Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner also warned the rig’s owner, Greece-based firm Ocean Rig, that Argentinian president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner could face ‘legal consequences’ over the drilling.
article_snippet.sent: Daniel Filmus, minister for the Malvinas – as Argentina calls the Falklands – said the UK Government would try to block further oil exploration.
article_snippet.sent: the UK Government has also suggested that British oil firms could be prosecuted if British oil firms start drilling in the waters around the Falkland Islands without formal permission from Argentina.
article_snippet.sent: It came after Government last week dismissed the threat of prosecution against oil and gas firms working off the Falkland Islands.
article_snippet.sent: Three British firms - Premier Oil, Rockhopper Exploration and Falkland Oil & Gas - announced that Three British firms - Premier Oil, Rockhopper Exploration and Falkland Oil & Gas had found oil and gas in a remote field north of the Falkland Islands, which are claimed by Argentina.
highlights_snippet.sent: Claimed Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner would sue oil firms drilling in the waters around islands .