Bludger-Aussie slang for a lazy person;
"A boss would say "get back to work you lazy bludgers!!"
Thanks for the laugh especially since those exploratory holes proved to be dry and
the truth is it was all hype.
Again-the few thousand hillbilly bludgers count for
ZIP-ask the
Chagos Islanders about it.
Seems you are unable to read either....from the article cited in my post below.
"There are an estimated 60 billion barrels of oil around the Falklands basin worth $167 billion dollars in royalties and taxes for the Falklands' government which will receive 26 percent of the profits from companies drilling for oil and nine percent royalties on every barrel sold, according to U.K.-based Edison Investment Research.
Oil Companies Undeterred
Indeed, after
finding oil in 2010, the oil company Rockhopper Exploration, teamed with Premier Oil in a 600 million pound ($900 million) deal to drill the Sea Lion oilfield in the Falklands north basin, estimated to hold around 300 million barrels of oil worth more than $30 billion."