Petrobras has completed drilling and conducted a formation test in the well discovered in the Santos Basin pre-salt cluster...
The well was completed at a depth of 6,004 meters ...
The Rights' Transfer agreement sets a volume of 467 million barrels of oil for the Florim area and, according to the contract, the exploratory phase ends in September 2014.
My take, fwiw, is the GOM sediment has a "floor" of salt (evaporated seawater) from back when it first was formed and engineers had previously thought anytime they hit salt they were at the bottom of the sediment so no reason to continue drilling.
Turns out that salt "flows" under pressure so it can squeeze around and even over oil, trapping it deeper (and hotter) than previously thought. It's like looking for the remote under the couch but not under the rug because it "can't" be there.
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