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UPDATE 4-New joint oil find may be biggest yet in Brazil
Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:10pm EDT Email | Print | Share| Reprints | Single Page| Recommend (0) [-] Text [+]
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 14 (Reuters) - An offshore find by Brazilian state oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA: Quote, Profile, Research)(PBR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in partnership with BG Group (BG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and Repsol-YPF (REP.MC: Quote, Profile, Research) may be the world's biggest discovery in 30 years, the head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency said on Monday.
Haroldo Lima told reporters the find, known as Carioca, could contain 33 billion barrels of oil equivalent, five times the recent giant Tupi discovery. That would further boost Brazil's prospects as an important world oil province and the source of new crude in the Americas.
"It could be the world's biggest discovery in the past 30 years, and the world's third-biggest currently active field," Lima, head of the government's oil and fuel market regulator, told reporters at an industry event in Rio de Janeiro.
Lima said he obtained the data from Petrobras at an informal level. But the National Petroleum Agency distanced itself from Lima's remarks, saying in a statement that they were "unofficial" and simply repeated information already in the public domain.