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Oil collapse could lop 20% off exploration budgets in Brazil, consultancy says

Tue, 17th Mar 2020 15:51

By Marta Nogueira

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 17 (Reuters) - The recent collapse in
oil prices could chop $300 million to $600 million off 2020
exploration budgets in Brazil, which has emerged as one of the
world's hottest offshore oil plays, specialists at consultancy
Wood Mackenzie told Reuters.

Before oil prices collapsed in the wake of failed OPEC talks
earlier this month, the consultancy had forecast that some $3
billion would be invested in exploration in Brazil, with
state-run Petrobras, Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Norway's
Equinor ASA leading the charge.

Petrobras, formally known as Petroleo Brasileiro SA
, said it alone planned to invest an average of $2.3
billion per year on exploration between 2020 and 2024.

Those hefty bets come as oil majors rush to claim and
develop their share of Brazil's so-called "pre-salt" reserves, a
prolific zone off the nation's southeastern coast where billions
of barrels of oil are trapped beneath the sea floor.

But Wood Mackenzie is now assuming a reduction of
exploration budgets of roughly around 20% across the board,
should oil prices remain around $35 per barrel this
year.

"I think everyone ... is evaluating what they can do to save
money," Marcelo de Assis, the firm's head upstream researcher
for Latin America, told Reuters on Friday.

The consultancy noted that Exxon Mobil Corp and
France's Total SA are still awaiting exploration
licenses, which could make their plans in Brazil easier to
delay. Equinor is likely to continue developing its Carcara
offshore block, the consultancy said, where the Norwegian firm
has already declared the zone commercially viable.

Exxon, Equinor and Total told Reuters on Monday they had
made no changes to their plans for Brazil. Total added that it
had applied for a license from Brazil's environmental
authorities in February to begin drilling exploratory wells at
the C-M-541 block that it won at auction in October.

Petrobras and Shell did not immediately respond to requests
for comment.

($1 = 5.07 reais)
(Reporting by Marta Nogueira; Writing by Gram Slattery; Editing
by Sandra Maler)

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