Article: Brazil: Brazil Finds Light Oil in Shallow Waters.

Byline: shabnam05

Brazil's state-owned Petrobras has announced the discovery of light oil in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin, off the southeastern coast of the country.

According to a statement released by the company on Thursday evening, the drilling of a well called 1-BRSA-607-SPS (1-SPS-56) has proved the presence of light oil in reservoirs above the salt layer, unlike Petrobras' recent discoveries in the pre-salt layer, at a minimum depth of 5,000 meters.

The new reservoirs are located at a depth of nearly 2,080 meters, which is classified as shallow waters, and their exploitation is not as expensive as that of deep water reservoirs. ...

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