Brazilian oil giant makes new deep-water find
July 13th, 2012 - 11:58 am ICT by IANSRio de Janeiro, July 13 (IANS/EFE) Brazilian state-controlled oil giant Petrobras said that it has discovered a new deep-water crude deposit.
In a regulatory filing Wednesday, Petrobras said the find was made at a water depth of 1,208 meters during drilling of the Grana Padano well, located 58 km off the coast of Vitoria, capital of the southeastern state of Espirito Santo.
The deposit is located above the so-called pre-salt layer, a roughly 160,000 sq.-km deep-water area off Brazil’s coast that is estimated to hold tens of billions of barrels of crude.
The well is being drilled by a consortium in which Petrobras has a 70 percent stake and private firm IBV Brasil has the remaining 30 percent interest.
“The consortium will continue exploring the block and intends to submit a proposed Assessment Plan to the National Petroleum Agency with the aim of delimiting the accumulation discovered and estimating reservoir volumes and productivity,” the filing said.
–IANS/EFE
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