Paraguay begins drilling for oil in the Chaco next December
Paraguay will begin exploring for hydrocarbons in the Chaco region, heartland of South America next 8 December, said oil consultant Mario Garnero after meeting on Tuesday with President Federico Franco.
Garnero from international consultants Brasilinvest said that initial investment will be in the range of 200 million dollars “and depending on the feasibility of moving to the exploitation stage, we will be talking of other figures”
The consultant met with President Franco Tuesday afternoon at the Executive palace where he briefed the head of government on the coming exploration and drilling, and the probabilities of finding hydrocarbons in commercial volumes.
“This is a very important project for the South American continent”, underlined Garnero who said that Brasilinvest and other Brazilian financial groups are interested in the exploration
However US company Crescent Global Oil will be in charge of the drilling operations that are scheduled to take several months. Seismic and air surveying have indicated the existence of an encouraging geology.
In the 1930s Paraguay and neighbouring Bolivia went to war over vast tracks of the Chaco believing there were huge deposits of oil. Paraguay finally was the victor taking some of the disputed land but both countries ended bankrupt and no oil was found with the existing technology of that time.
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but
does need to have good relations in Mercosur to export.
These restrictions you speak of, have any involved Uruguay?
You say:
“We have a decent river route to the Atlantic - the Paraguay River....”
I say:
O'RLY?
The Paraguay river flows into the Atlantic?
May I ask you.... when did that happen?
Still no oil found and he attempts to extend he Parguay River outside it's bounds. Quickly stopped by Think.
Well....
That was more “correct”...
It wasn't so hard......., was it?
Think, you don't pull any punches don't you? Haaa, I love it! If it wasn't for the likes of you, visiting this site would be a burden.
#5 Nah, Uruguay is pretty cool with Paraguay. Unfortunately they don't have a large enough port that can be used by Paraguay, so instead we are dependent on good ol' CFK. There was talk of a new port being constructed in Uruguay for this purpose, but not sure what has happened to that.
You knew what the man meant.
Eventually the WATERS of the Paraguay river DO FLOW into the Atlantic Ocean.
You never did answer me the question whether a revolving rifle is a revolver or a rifle.
lf its a rifle then a revolving pistol can be called a pistol, nicht wer?
Proving you wrong yet again.
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