Agência Brasil
Rio de Janeiro – Petrobras (Brazil Petroleum S.A.) informed the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) that it discovered oil and gas in five wells in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, in northeastern Brazil. The total reserves are on the order of 76 million barrels of light crude, of excellent quality.
The future deep-water production area was given the name of Piranema Field. The depth of the ocean at the site varies between 1,200 and 1,600 meters.
