Tag: Campos Basin

• Monday, February 27th 2012 - 19:56 UTC

  Repsol-Sinopec makes huge oil discovery off-shore Brazil: 250m boe

  

  Spain's Repsol and China's Sinopec have made an oil discovery offshore Brazil that could be one of the biggest so far in the area and that boosted confidence that across in Africa, Angola's deepwater reserves may be abundant too.

• Sunday, February 5th 2012 - 07:47 UTC

  Brazil strikes onshore light oil in the Amazonas state; record oil and gas in 2011

  

  Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras announced last week it had struck good-quality light oil in the Solimoes Basin, in the state of Amazonas.

• Monday, July 4th 2011 - 05:45 UTC

  Spanish-Chinese group discover oil in Brazil’s pre-salt cluster, 6.851 metres deep

  

  Spanish oil and gas group Repsol YPF announced last week that its joint venture with China's Sinopec Group had made a new discovery of good quality oil in Brazilian ultra-deep water.

• Saturday, April 16th 2011 - 01:53 UTC

  Norway’s Statoil makes major oil discovery in the Brazilian Campos basin

  

  Norway’s biggest oil and gas producer Statoil ASA, said the “significant” oil discovery made adjacent to the Peregrino field in the Campos basin off Brazil may warrant a separate installation to speed up development.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2010 - 06:18 UTC

  Shell confirms oil discovery in pre-salt drilling at Campos Basin

  

  Royal Dutch Shell Brazil discovered oil in the Campos Basin's pre-salt region, the company said Tuesday. In a statement, Shell Brazil said it had discovered oil in the 3-SHEL-22-ESS well at the Nautilus field, part of the Parque das Conchas development that went on-stream in July 2009.