HC Deb 14 November 1977 vol 939 cc43-4W
39. Mr. Shersby

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what studies have been made by his Department of the likelihood of hydrocarbon deposits in the Malvinas Basin.

Mr. Judd

In 1973 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office commissioned a report of the area of the Continental Shelf around the Falkland Islands. The report was produced in March 1975 by a team led by Professor D. H. Griffiths of the Department of Geology and Science. Birmingham University.

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