Offered Areas in Brasil Round 8
Brasil Round 8 will offer blocks in
14 sector, with almost 100 thousand km² in high potential,
new frontier and mature basins. The area in offers encloses
7 sedimentary basins: Barreirinhas, Espírito Santo,
Pará-Maranhão, Pelotas, Santos, Sergipe-Alagoas
and Tucano Sul.
Will be offer 284 block, being:
» 35 offshore high potential
blocks, at the objective to resetting the national reserves
and supply the increase of the internal demand;
» 153 block in offshore
new frontier basins, where there is technological barriers
to be surpassed, to make possible the sprouting of new producing
basins;
» 47 block in onshore new
frontier basins, to attract investment to regions with few
geological data;
» 49 blocks in onshore
mature basins, to make possible continuing the exploration
and production of oil and gas in regions where these activities
are very important economically.
See maps of the offered basins in Brasil
Round 8 in *.pdf format: