bp today provides an update following its significant hydrocarbon discovery at the Bumerangue block, located in the pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Following the announcement of the discovery in August, initial laboratory and pressure gradient analysis has confirmed the presence of a ~1,000 metre gross hydrocarbon column including a ~100 metre gross oil column and a ~900 metre gross liquids rich gas-condensate column.\u00a0 Given the presence of liquids across the entire hydrocarbon column, the high-quality rock properties observed and bp\u2019s extensive technology and deepwater developments experience, bp believes that the carbon dioxide in the reservoir can be managed.<\/p>\n
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bp is continuing laboratory testing and other analysis to determine fluid characteristics, gas-to-oil and condensate-to-gas ratios and an estimate of in-place volumes and will provide an update in due course. Planning of appraisal activities is ongoing with well activities expected to commence in early 2027, subject to regulatory approval.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201c2025 has seen significant strategic progress across bp\u2019s Upstream with record plant reliability, six major project start-ups, five more sanctioned and a string of exploration discoveries including Bumerangue.\u00a0 We are still in the exploration phase for Bumerangue, however, initial results and analysis are extremely encouraging as they indicate a very large hydrocarbon column and a significant volume of liquids in the reservoir.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Gordon Birrell,\u00a0EVP, production & operations<\/p>\n
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Gordon Birrell, bp\u2019s executive vice president for Production & Operations said: \u201c2025 has seen significant strategic progress across bp\u2019s Upstream with record plant reliability, six major project start-ups, five more sanctioned and a string of exploration discoveries including Bumerangue.\u00a0 We are still in the exploration phase for Bumerangue, however, initial results and analysis are extremely encouraging as they indicate a very large hydrocarbon column and a significant volume of liquids in the reservoir.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased about what we have seen to date and our confidence in the potential of this field has increased. We have a team in place and are accelerating work on proposed appraisal activities and potential development concepts, which will include the potential for an early production system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bumerangue is one of 12 exploration discoveries that bp has made this year across several basins, including the Gulf of America and Namibia, through Azule Energy, its 50-50 independent joint venture with Eni.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"bp today provides an update following its significant hydrocarbon discovery at the Bumerangue block, located in the pre-salt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21198],"tags":[67,21215,6704,12938,4061,21217,15408],"class_list":["post-46459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bp","tag-bp","tag-bp-global-news","tag-bp-plc","tag-energy-industry","tag-press-release","tag-production-operations","tag-south-america"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116623017430383590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}