Amazon has a twin river that flows 4.000 metres below the ground

Friday, August 26th 2011 - 03:16 UTC

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Brazilian scientists say they have found signs of a huge underground river flowing far beneath the Amazon River, reports O Estado de Sao Paulo. Read full article

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lsolde
Facinating
Aug 26th, 2011 - 11:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Doubly fascinating.
At 3% of the surface flow, it is still significantly bigger than most rivers on earth.
But - and here I am asking the oil people - with the geological eons of vegetative deposition in the Amazon Basin, where is all the on-shore oil?
Aug 26th, 2011 - 04:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
Geoff, this one is old, but I'm sure you can ask Petrobras for more info in Portuguese. This is the first article that pups up when you search in google; petrobras strikes oil in the amazon
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/1129-oil_petrobras_tefe.html

Not long ago they (Petrobras), striked gas in the Peruvian amazon, while the private company of Eike Fuhrken Batista is doing well in the Amazon in Colombia.

Another one active in Amazon is the private Brazilian energy company HRT
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/1129-oil_petrobras_tefe.html
Aug 26th, 2011 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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