Brazil's Pre-salt Reserves: 65bn Boe

摘要

Brazilian energy regulator's head, Haroldo Lima, said the country's offshore pre-salt oilrnand gas reserves could total between 50 and 80 billion Boe. That compares with an earlier statement from him when he said that the Carioca field in the Santos Basin alone could contain as much as 33 billion Boe of hydrocarbons reserves (IGR 598/22).rnA debate is raging in Brazil over how much investment in Petrobras' business plan will be scaled back or increased in the current circumstances. Petrobras, which announced in October that it would postpone the publishing of its 2009-13 business plan (IGR 610/20) to the end of 2008, denied any decisions to raise or lower investments in the new business plan.rn"The business plan is still under revision, therefore the company does not have enough inputs to make announcements about projects being brought on early or late, or of about how this could affect the estimated production curve of the next years," Petrobras said in a November 19 statement.