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Bloomberg: Repsol and BG Group Jump on Oil Discovery in Brazil (Update 3) (April 15)
Repsol YPF SA posted its biggest gain in Madrid trading in almost six years and BG Group Plc climbed to a record in London after the Brazilian government said the Carioca oil field offshore Brazil may be the third-largest ever drilled.

Repsol, which owns a quarter of the Carioca field, rose 2.18 euros, or 9.3 percent, to 25.68 euros, the biggest increase since June 2002. BG, owner of 30 percent of the Carioca project, gained 66 pence, or 5.4 percent, to a record 1,288 pence, the highest close since the company sold shares in 1988.

The Carioca field may hold 33 billion barrels of oil, Haroldo Lima, director of Brazil's National Oil Agency, said at a seminar in Rio de Janeiro yesterday.



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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 02:49:45 PM EST
It is ahuge huge huge field... enough to make the slide after peak oil a little bit more easy sicne it is adding one field to the big ones...or at least this is the conclusion I get from looking at the numbers they give...

now...

are the numbers real? Will we really ahve a cusion from 2015 to 2025 to compensate for the expected declines?

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by kcurie on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 02:57:12 PM EST
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The numbers are a wild extrapolation. And always bear in mind that total reserve size doesn't say anything about the rate of extraction: just as with oil sands.

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by DoDo on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 03:12:22 PM EST
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Well I sort of discount those caveats... my point is if the order of magnitude of thenumbers is correct. I am not sure if theya re right or not... if they are is a very signficant discovery... if not... well propaganda.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 05:02:59 PM EST
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I was searching for my source on "wild extrapolation", but Jérôme just linked to it downthread.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 05:20:06 PM EST
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See Luis de Sousa's post over at the Oil Drum - there cannot be any hard number because they have not even drilled the target reservoir yet!

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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 05:12:48 PM EST
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