Shell Starts Drilling Deepwater Brazil Well Near Tupi
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s largest oil company, started drilling a well off Brazil’s coast near the Tupi field, the largest discovery in the Americas in more than three decades, said the nation’s oil regulator.
The regulator, known as ANP, announced Shell’s drilling development, 1-SHEL-23-RJS, today on its website. The well is in the Santos Basin’s BM-S-54 block, north of Tupi, which was the Americas’ largest discovery since Mexico’s Cantarell in 1976. The well is also close to the Iara and Iracema oil fields.