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Brazil sells Parnaiba blocks in first round of oil auction

Tue, 14th May 2013 13:23

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run oilcompany Petrobras, Portugal's Galp andBrazil's OGX won Brazilian onshore oil and gasexploration blocks in a frontier region of Brazil's ParnaibaBasin at an auction on Tuesday conducted by oil regulator ANP.

They agreed to pay a combined 61.3 million reais ($30million) for the rights to the blocks in Brazil's northeast. Theblocks are near the same basin where OGX bought rights in 2007and is now producing natural gas.

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