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    $25 Bees. Now that's a serious capital raising.

    So much for the imminent death of deepwater offshore crude exploration and production...
    Petrobras Borrowing Costs Drop From Record as Share Sale Nears

    June 7 (Bloomberg) -- Growing confidence in Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s plan for the biggest stock sale in the Americas is driving its relative borrowing costs down from a record high even as Europe’s debt crisis rattles world markets...

    ...Petrobras named six banks last week to manage its $25 billion stock sale in a sign the state-controlled oil producer plans to proceed with the offering...

    ...Petrobras, which is seeking legislative approval for the sale, is selling equity to fund a $220 billion, five-year spending plan through 2014, the world’s biggest oil-industry investment program, as it seeks to develop fields such as the offshore Tupi block, the largest crude discovery in the Americas since 1976. The plan includes swapping stock for the right to tap 5 billion barrels of government-owned reserves off Brazil’s coast. Brazil owns a 32 percent stake in Petrobras and controls the company through a majority of voting shares...

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    Re: No Offshore Moratorium Here...

    What's the deepest well running, GRG55? 10,000 feet above the ocean floor?

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      Re: No Offshore Moratorium Here...

      West Africa is the same geological formation as eastern Brazil; it is my understanding that exploration off the African coast is going deeper and further offshore than ever. Is that true?
      Greg

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        Re: No Offshore Moratorium Here...

        Originally posted by don View Post
        What's the deepest well running, GRG55? 10,000 feet above the ocean floor?
        Well, all the offshore fields I am familiar with are below the ocean floor...

        BP's Thunderhorse 2 in the Gulf of Mexico is more than 29,000 ft below the ocean floor in 6100 ft of water. This well was drilled by the Discoverer Enterprise, which is currently engaged in drilling the second relief well at Macondo and is also the drillship to which the current "cap" over the blowout well is producing to. Thunderhorse is currently producing something north of 250,000 barrels per day.

        The deepest [non-producing] well in the Gulf of Mexico is BP's Tiber well, drilled to 35,055 feet in 4000 ft of water by the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon last year.

        I believe the deepest ever producing well is an onshore one that Exxon drilled to just over 37,000 feet at Sakhalin Island in Russia in 2007. This well was drilled in an astounding 61 days using some then-proprietary Exxon technologies and held the record as the longest measured depth extended reach well in the world when it was completed. Could be someone, somewhere may have exceeded that depth since, but I haven't heard...
        Last edited by GRG55; June 07, 2010, 10:10 PM.

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          Re: No Offshore Moratorium Here...

          Originally posted by BiscayneSunrise View Post
          West Africa is the same geological formation as eastern Brazil; it is my understanding that exploration off the African coast is going deeper and further offshore than ever. Is that true?
          There are geological similarities from the time before Pangaea rifted and broke apart during the early Cretaceous creating [among others] the African and South American continents. After that the geological developments on each side of the South Atlantic varied.

          You are correct that exploration and production off West Africa has been moving into deeper waters for some years now. Fields such as Shell's Bonga in Nigeria and the Anadarko/Tullow Jubilee field in Ghana are targetting turbidite sandstone fans. These are found in the deeper water just as the continental shelf slopes away, and the depths are not comparable to the deepwater wells being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. [Bonga is about 13,000 ft deep in 1000 feet of water depth].

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