An aerial view of the Falkland Islands’s capital city, Port Stanley.
The Falkland Islands is expected to have its GDP doubled by the Sea Lion oil drilling project. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
The Falkland Islands is expected to have its GDP doubled by the Sea Lion oil drilling project. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Argentina threatens UK oil firm CEO with jail over Falklands drilling

Exclusive: Legal notice comes as Buenos Aires ramps up rhetoric over UK territory and seeks to halt Sea Lion project

The Argentinian government threatened a British businessman involved in an offshore Falkland Islands oil project with jail, the Guardian can reveal.