Sugar Loaf field

Carioca/Sugar Loaf

Location of Carioca/Sugar Loaf

Country Brazil
Region Santos Basin
Block BM S 21, 8 and 9
Offshore/onshore Offshore
Coordinates 25°51′S 43°35′W / 25.850°S 43.583°W / -25.850; -43.583Coordinates: 25°51′S 43°35′W / 25.850°S 43.583°W / -25.850; -43.583
Operator Petrobras
Partners Petrobras
Galp Energia
BG Group
Field history
Discovery 2007
Production
Estimated oil in place 25,000 million barrels (~3.4×10^9 t)
Producing formations pre-salt Aptian Guaratiba

The Carioca/Sugar Loaf field is a potential deepwater oil field in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. The field is possibly part of an important emerging petroleum basin known as the Santos Basin. Two other large oil fields have been discovered in this basin in 2006 and 2008, the Tupi and Jupiter fields. While there has been speculation that Sugar Loaf could contain between 25 and 40 billion barrels,[1] the condition and size of the field has yet to be clarified,[2][3] and other much lower estimates of 0.6 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion, and 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil have also been made for Sugar Loaf.[4]

References

  1. ↑ WorldOil.com - Online Magazine Article: Columns - Feb-2008
  2. ↑ Clarifications on the discovery in the Carioca area
  3. ↑ Brazil's Petrobras denies giant oil field discovery
  4. ↑ Brazil Field Smaller Than Claimed, Credit Suisse Says
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