Brazil’s Petrobras has disclosed an offshore heavy oil discovery in the Espirito Santo basin 64 km southwest of Golfinho field.
The Grana Padano well is Block ES-M-661 of the BM-ES-24 concession in 1,208 m of water 58 km off Vitoria. It located 15° gravity oil in reservoirs at 2,008 m.
Petrobras intends to continue exploring the block and will submit a proposed assessment plan to the National Petroleum Agency that describes its plan to delineate the discovery and estimate reservoir volume and productivity.
Petrobras is operator of the concession with 40% interest. Partners are IBV Brasil and Anadarko Petroleum Corp., 30% each.
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Alan Petzet
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Alan Petzet is Chief Editor-Exploration of Oil & Gas Journal in Houston. He is editor of the Weekly E&D Newsletter, emailed to OGJ subscribers, and a regular contributor to the OGJ Online subscriber website.
Petzet joined OGJ in 1981 after 13 years in the Tulsa World business-oil department. He was named OGJ Exploration Editor in 1990. A native of Tulsa, he has a BA in journalism from the University of Tulsa.
