{"id":617795,"date":"2026-09-08T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617795\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:46:09","slug":"argentina-targets-energy-firm-over-falklands-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/617795\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina targets energy firm over Falklands operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentina’s government has said it will file criminal charges \u2060against energy company Navitas Petroleum and its executives for operating in the Falkland Islands.<\/p>\n

The move follows remarks on Friday by Argentine President Javier Milei, who vowed to sanction oil companies drilling in the British overseas territory as he stepped up the South American nation’s sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n

According \u200cto a statement \u2060from the presidency, Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno will file the criminal complaint against several Navitas subsidiaries and partners operating in the territory, along with their corporate directors.<\/p>\n

Navitas did not immediately reply to \u200ca request for comment.<\/p>\n

The government alleges the firms violated Argentine law \u2060by holding hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation licenses issued by \u200cthe United Kingdom in the North Falkland Basin.<\/p>\n

Mr Milei \u2060last week \u200csingled out the Sea Lion offshore oil project as he announced measures targeting companies involved in Falklands oil and gas activities<\/a>, \u2060with penalties potentially extending to shareholders, directors and suppliers.<\/p>\n

The Sea \u2060Lion field is operated by Tel Aviv-listed Navitas Petroleum, which holds a 65% stake.<\/p>\n

Gideon Tadmor, a prominent figure in Israel’s energy sector and the company’s chair, holds about 9% of its shares, according to \u200cLSEG data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina’s government has said it will file criminal charges \u2060against energy company Navitas Petroleum and its executives for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-617795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}