The Santos Basin hosts one of the most prolific and geologically intricate carbonate reservoir systems in the South Atlantic. These reservoirs, primarily deposited during the Early Cretaceous in a ...

Petrobras encountered oil in a pioneer Uirapuru block well within the Santos basin pre-salt 200 km off the Santos coast at water depth of 1,995 m. The discovery is in porous reservoirs ...

Petrobras, operator of the consortium in block BS-3, in Santos Basin, completed the drilling of the pioneer well 1-SCS-10 in October 2001. Located 175 kilometers off the coast of Santa Catarina ...

OGX has confirmed the existence of pre-salt microbiolite reservoirs with hydrocarbons in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. As previously announced, the wildcat well 1-OGX-63-SPS, located in ...

Brazil's OGX has mapped six potential prospects in the shallow-water portion of the Santos basin that are expected to be spudded by the end of next year, writes Fabio Palmigiani. 27 August 2009 23 ...

BG Group Plc has made a "material" new oil discovery at its Iara well in Brazil's subsalt reserves, its sixth-straight success in the deep water Santos Basin since drilling began, the British gas ...

Brazilian state energy giant Petrobras (NYSE: PBR) has announced a new oil discovery in the pre-salt Santos Basin, identifying “high-quality oil without contaminants” at the 3-BRSA-1396D-SPS ...

The Santos basin produced 1.99 million barrels per day of oil and 90 million cubic metres per day of natural gas in March, with the bulk coming from giant fields such as Tupi and Buzios, both of ...

Equinor ASA EQNR has strengthened its footprint in Brazil’s energy sector after securing the S-M-1617 exploration block in the Santos Basin during the country’s 5th Open Permanent Concession ...

In March, Petrobras reported that it had identified signs of oil in well 4-BRSA-1395-SPS, at a water depth of 1,759 meters and 245 kilometers from the city of Santos.