据能源网3月23日休斯敦报道，美国石油生产商埃克森美孚公司（Exxon Mobil Corp.）的合作伙伴墨菲石油（Murphy oil）周二表示，埃克森美孚正在巴西近海的一个新区域钻探，该地区可能有多达10亿桶油气。
如果勘探成功，这将是埃克森作为运营商首次在巴西发现石油。埃克森美孚以50%的股份引领巴西东北部的Sergipe-Alagoas盆地的前景区。巴西生产商Enauta持有30%的股份，总部位于休斯敦的墨菲石油公司持有20%的股份。
埃克森美孚拒绝置评。
墨菲石油公司首席执行官罗杰詹金斯在向投资者的介绍中表示，埃克森美孚于2月20日开始在所谓的Cutthroat-1前景区进行钻探活动，并将在未来几周内结束。
这是三家公司在Sergipe Alagoas盆地共同持有的九个区块中的第一口探井。
他称，Cutthroat区域的总资源在5亿-10.5亿桶石油当量之间。
郝芬 译自 能源网
原文如下：
Exxon estimates up to 1 billion barrels in Brazil oil prospect
U.S. oil producer Exxon Mobil Corp is drilling in a new area offshore of Brazil that could have as much as 1 billion barrels of oil and gas, its partner Murphy Oil said on Tuesday.
If exploration is successful, it would be Exxon’s first oil discovery in Brazil as an operator. Exxon leads the prospect in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, northeast of Brazil, with a 50% stake. It is joined by Brazilian producer Enauta with 30% and Houston-based Murphy Oil Corp with 20%.
Exxon declined to comment.
Exxon kicked off drilling activity on the so-called Cutthroat-1 prospect on Feb. 20 and should conclude in the coming weeks, Murphy Oil Chief Executive Roger Jenkins said in a presentation to investors.
This is the first exploratory well of the nine blocks the three companies hold together in the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
The Cutthroat area has an upward gross resource potential between 500 million to 1.050 billion barrels of equivalent oil, he said.
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