Brazil’s Petrobras has made an oil discovery in the pre-salt area of the country’s offshore Santos Basin with its Florim exploration well.
The well is being drilled in the so-called Rights Transfer Area in 2,009m of water, 206km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state using the Odebrecht drillship ODN II.
Petrobras has reported good quality oil (29deg API) in carbonate reservoirs of excellent quality just below the salt layer. The find was reported before the target depth of about 6,100m (20,000ft).