MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
BP halts exploration activities off Uruguay and targets lower-risk projects
BP confirmed its exit from Uruguay, three years after it won rights to explore an area of almost 26,000 sq km in waters ranging from 50 to 2,000 meters deep. 
Santa Ana said “BP has other exploration projects in other parts of the world that are lower risk. In today's environment, there is a limit to investments” British oil major BP has halted its deepwater exploration activities off Uruguay as it prioritises lower-risk projects at a time of low international prices, an official at Uruguay's state-owned oil company Ancap said on Monday.
BP confirmed its exit from Uruguay, three years after it won rights to explore blocks 11 and 12 in Uruguay's Pelotas basin and block 6 in the Punta del Este basin. The acreage covers an area of almost 26,000 square kilometers in waters ranging from 50 to 2,000 meters deep.
“BP has other exploration projects in other parts of the world that are lower risk. In today's environment, there is a limit to investments,” Hector de Santa Ana, head of Exploration and Production at Ancap told local media.
He said BP would give control of the three blocks to Ancap in October. BP holds a 100% interest in the blocks and Ancap has the right to take up to a 30% share in any discoveries.
BP's second-quarter profit slumped by nearly two-thirds as it grappled with lower oil prices. Late last month it cut its capital spending plans for the year for a second time this year to below $22 billion from $22.9 billion last year.
“BP’s analysis concluded that the chances of success in identifying commercially exploitable hydrocarbons in the blocks did not compete with opportunities elsewhere in BP’s global exploration portfolio” BP said in a statement.
“We will consider future opportunities in the country, if and when they arise,” it said.
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Read all comments“....and targets lower-risk projects”
Aug 04th, 2015 - 12:37 pm 0yeah, right...
lower risk until bp puts its hands there.
then will be a ultra high risk project.
risk to explode like a bomb.
british + technology = monkey + jackknife
@1 LOL
Aug 04th, 2015 - 02:23 pm 0You - and your like - experience something we never have to: a severe inferiority complex.
Must be tiring been constantly outdone over the centuries, and still very much looked down on and laughed at by “the filthy ingrissh [pig dog swine]!” You're like a character out of a Monty Python sketch, only real and much funnier. Keep it up please.
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Aug 04th, 2015 - 02:27 pm 0You're a little sore today.
Did Mummy take away your sweeties?
Or can't she afford them anymore?
Maybe you should go and collect some more cardboard, you know, help out a bit?
PS: The article above is discussing Investment Risk, not technological or environmental risk. Doh!
Paulie reading comprehension + internet = Fail!
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