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Petrobras bites dust in pre-salt
After almost three years of back-to-back oil discoveries in the Santos basin pre-salt play, Brazilian giant Petrobras has drilled a duster in the much-touted exploration fairway.
Petrobras drilled the wildcat to a total depth of 6375 metres in ultra-deep water Block BM-S-17 in mid-August and no discovery notice was filed, a well-placed source at the country’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) told Upstreamonline, speaking in condition of anonymity.
The block is 100%-owned by Petrobras.
“The BM-S-17 prospect was a dry hole. That’s the evaluation inside the ANP,” said the source, adding the block is located a few kilometres south-west of BM-S-22, which is in the heart of the giant Sugarloaf pre-salt structure...
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