Rosneft to take on Brazilian jungle challenge
Petrobras’s Urucu industrial hub in Amazonas. Rosneft is unlikely to use the Urucu pipeline for Solimões. (Petrobras)
Russian giant Rosneft will soon drill a remote area of the Brazilian Amazon and may use floating LNG barges to transport gas out of the jungle, the company has confirmed.
Rosneft Brasil will carry out a seismic survey and drill a minimum of two wells in the Solimões Basin in the near future, a Moscow-based spokesman told Interfax Natural Gas Daily on Friday. The gas-rich Solimões Basin lies in an area of thick rainforest in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.