Brazilian offshore oil field may be among world's largest


Science | 206460 hits | Apr 14 12:20 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A deep-water exploration area off Brazil's coast could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, the head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency said Monday. That would make it the world's third-largest known oil reserve.

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  1. by avatar hurley_108
    Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:41 am
    33 brazillion barrels is quite a lot.

  2. by ridenrain
    Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:46 am
    (grown!!) :-)

  3. by avatar commanderkai
    Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:52 am
    Man, we keep finding oil. North Dakota and now Brazil. What's next?

  4. by sasquatch2
    Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:04 am
    I wonder what the and 'the science' is going to say about this?

  5. by ridenrain
    Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:06 am
    Where are all those "peak oil" idiots?

  6. by avatar xerxes
    Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:53 pm
    This still doesn't mean oil is an infinite resource.

  7. by avatar Istanbul
    Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:03 pm
    "ridenrain" said
    (grown!!) :-)


    Groan! :wink:

  8. by sasquatch2
    Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:55 am
    xerxes

    This still doesn't mean oil is an infinite resource.


    This is however more evidence that petroleum is a mineral rather than a "fossal fuel'.



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