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accumulation (1-OGX-11D-SPS), adjacent to the wildcat well, in block BM-S-59, demonstrated the continuity of the sandstone reservoirs of the Santonian age. In the drill-stem test for fluid identification conducted in the well, the company has verified the presence of light oil of 38° API, while in well OGX-11D the company had previously confirmed the presence of gas and condensate.
OGX-74 was drilled to a depth of 4439 metres and, together with wildcat wells OGX-11D and OGX-47, will be part of a discovery evaluation plan which will appraise the sandstones of the Santonian age accumulations in block BM-S-59. Te OGX-74 well, an extension of the Natal accumulation, is located 115 km off the coast of São Paulo, in water depths of approximately 196 metres and was drilled approximately 4 km away from well OGX-11D.
Evaluation area Meanwhile Petrobras has completed drilling extension exploratory well 3-BRSA-1032-RJS (3-RJS-697), located in the Iara evaluation area, in the pre-salt of Santos Basin. Te well is 223 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, 9 km from the discovery well, at a water depth of 2150 metres. Te well, informally known as Iara Oeste, is the third well drilled in the discovery evaluation plan
1-BRSA-618 (Iara) and reached the total depth of 6050 metres. Petrobras is the operator of the consortium
(65 per cent), in partnership with BG Group (25 per cent) and Galp Energia (10 per cent). Te consortium will advance the activities set forth in the Evaluation Plan approved by the Brazilian National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP), including formation tests to evaluate the productivity of the reservoir (Fig 1). In Ecuador, state-run company Petroecuador
says it plans to establish an alliance with its Venezuelan counterpart Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA), to explore for oil and gas in Venezuela. According to Petroecuador general manager Marco Calvopina, PdVSA has been invited to do the same in Ecuador. Calvopina said that Petroecuador will have a
14 per cent stake in Venezuela’s Dobokubi oil field, in the heavy-crude rich Orinoco belt. Dobokubi is a Venezuelan oil field, operated by
a joint venture between PdVSA and Iran’s Petropars Oil and Gas. Petroecuador’s investment in the field hasn’t yet been defined nor have the fields that PDVSA could explore in Ecuador. Calvopina said Venezuela has also offered to
Petroecuador a stake in a block for gas exploration, but he declined to provide further details. ●
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