Stories tagged with petrobras

Clarification on Carioca (reported discovery in Santos Basin)

Posted by Luis de Sousa on April 16, 2008 - 1:30am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Geology/Exploration
Tags: carioca, exploration, offshore, petrobras, pre-salt, santos basin, tupi [list all tags]

[Update: The Brasilian press is reporting wide criticism to Haroldo Lima who at the moment is denying he announced the find: “I haven't announced anything, nor did I used that word [anoucement] at any moment.” (hat tip Carolus Obscurus).]

Reuters reported yesterday:

Haroldo Lima told reporters the find, known as Carioca, could contain 33 billion barrels of oil equivalent, five times the recent giant Tupi discovery. That would further boost Brazil's prospects as an important world oil province and the source of new crude in the Americas.

"It could be the world's biggest discovery in the past 30 years, and the world's third-biggest currently active field," Lima, head of the government's oil and fuel market regulator, told reporters at an industry event in Rio de Janeiro.

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Tupi, the new kid in town

Posted by Luis de Sousa on November 22, 2007 - 11:00am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Geology/Exploration
Tags: exploration, Jack 2, offshore, petrobras, pre-salt, tupi [list all tags]

On the morning of November 12th a friend called me saying that the largest oil field in the world had just been found off Brasil. I then explained to him what the largest oil field in the world was like, and how implausible that information was.

In fact since the late hours of the previous day the media was reporting “the largest world oil find in the last 20 years". Once again our energy problems were over, goodbye 90 dollar oil and so on.

Déja vu? Didn't this all happen last year with the Jack field in the Gulf of Mexico?
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