'One off': Brazil dry well not a problem
Brazil dry well was 'one off'
A Brazilian oil well drilled by ExxonMobil that showed no sign of oil was a “one off,” according to Nelson Narciso Filho, director of Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency.
Drilling at the Tupi field in Brazil’s offshore Santos basin will probably provide more information about the viability of the country’s so-called pre-salt oil wells, Narciso said.
ExxonMobil said last week it failed to find oil or natural gas in the offshore Guarani well in the sub-sea block known as BM-S-22, a Bloomberg report said.
“This is a one off,” Narciso said. “The risk is always there but we don’t see it as a problematic situation for the pre-salt area.”
Investment in Brazilian oil and gas over the next five years will total about $200 billion, including $174 billion in spending by state-controlled oil producer Petrobras and $26 billion from foreign companies, Narciso said today.
Petrobras is focusing spending on oil exploration and production, including the pre-salt fields.