英国公司Rockhopper Exploration已收购一家拥有Sea Lion油气项目浮式生产平台的公司35%的股份，该项目位于福克兰群岛附近。此举被布宜诺斯艾利斯视为对阿根廷制裁的挑衅。
British company Rockhopper Exploration has acquired a 35% stake in a firm that owns a floating production platform for the Sea Lion oil project near the Falkland Islands, a move seen in Buenos Aires as defying Argentine sanctions.
阿根廷曾制裁与该项目相关的公司，并给予英国两周期限以停止该项目，作为其长期主权争议的一部分，阿根廷称该群岛为马尔维纳斯群岛。
Argentina had sanctioned companies tied to the project and given the United Kingdom a two-week deadline to halt it, as part of a long-running sovereignty dispute over the islands it calls the Malvinas.