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Petrobras: Starting Production at Chinook Field in U.S. Gulf

Dow Jones Newswires --
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR3.BR, PETR4.BR) started production at the Chinook oil and gas field in the ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico last week, the company said Thursday.

Petrobras, as the company is known, drilled and completed the Chinook well in a resevoir in the Lower Tertiary, a geographic layer nearly five miles deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil and gas companies are using advances in drilling technology to explore for oil in increasingly extreme environments.

The Pioneer production platform is moored 155 miles off the coast of Louisiana and in waters 8,200 above the sea floor, a world-record depth for oil productoin, according to Petrobras.


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honda0105
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Message Posted: Sep 18, 2012 11:26:45 PM

hope it ain't another BP...
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Message Posted: Sep 15, 2012 3:48:07 PM

drill, drill, drill.
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Message Posted: Sep 15, 2012 10:17:35 AM

About time...
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TustinDad
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Message Posted: Sep 15, 2012 9:20:24 AM

C.Carpets wrote: "Worth Repeating...
O'Bummer stops USA companies drilling in Gulf, and then welcomes his South American friends to do that which he denies USA companies."

I don't think it is worth repeating. There are several new rigs in the Gulf. If US companies want to drill there, just apply, which they have done. Maybe the US companies should start using the permits they already have?
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tomok
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Message Posted: Sep 15, 2012 8:55:56 AM

Is Petrobras any better then BP when drilling in ultra-deep water and extreme environments? Have an SOP, blow out protection, emergency evacuation procedure, tested and certified equipment and the KNOWLEDGE to operate the drilling rig correctly and safely. It would be disastrous if there was another massive oil spill that happened like BP. Oil companies keep finding oil deposits all over this earth, we were supposed to run out of crude oil years ago.
Chuck and TD (<comment police – TD *stay away from the Kool-Aid!) gave money to Brazil and this is what we get in return? We are running out of oil so let's raise prices at the pump! It's TD's fault! It's open ocean, have at it but don't pollute our shores!
Whatever the size or shape of the vehicle, Produce and ‘Drive’ vehicles with high MPG, are very safe, reliable, has a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money.
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12/22/2012!
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C.Carpets
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Message Posted: Sep 15, 2012 1:38:22 AM

Worth Repeating...
O'Bummer stops USA companies drilling in Gulf, and then welcomes his South American friends to do that which he denies USA companies. We will show him our outrage at the polls in just a few weeks. The so-called experts also said Carter was ahead of Reagan at this stage in the 1980 election, and we know what really happened.
(Posted By JudgeMobile)
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Kia4now
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Message Posted: Sep 15, 2012 12:20:05 AM

How does that help our economy and gas prices??
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rahcat
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 11:08:24 PM

Just be careful.
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Is it located in hurricane paths?
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 11:05:16 PM

Too bad it is not going to help our pump prices!!!
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Financed by Obama!!...
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:58:10 PM

More oil on the world market is still oil supply on the world market???
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:55:08 PM

So?
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:52:21 PM

Great
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OK
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:50:55 PM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:46:41 PM

WHATEVER!
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First the East Coast now the West Coast, here comes the next problem.
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:45:13 PM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:43:51 PM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:41:28 PM

Great. -- Another oil company getting richer, while consumers at the gas pumps get poorer!
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:40:37 PM

This is only good news for Brasil and the oil driller.
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:40:28 PM

ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:37:57 PM

and the US probably funded it for Brazil as well
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:37:29 PM

so
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ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:31:09 PM

SO?
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:31:04 PM

OhOh
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:29:07 PM

Not sure this is good
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:28:57 PM

safer in shallow water if a problem
when will the enironmentalist learn that?
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:24:57 PM

money to be made no matter what depth
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:24:13 PM

Ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:23:17 PM

it is environmentally safe, it is good
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:21:49 PM

keep o drilling!!!
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:19:49 PM

Lets hope we don't have to see how well they do on well clean-up, specially at those depths.
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:16:15 PM

great...not really
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I agree 100% with judgemobile!!!
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:12:20 PM

O'Bummer stops USA companies drilling in Gulf, and then welcomes his South American friends to do that which he denies USA companies. We will show him our outrage at the polls in just a few weeks. The so-called experts also said Carter was ahead of Reagan at this stage in the 1980 election, and we know what really happened.
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:11:51 PM

ok
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hm
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Oh, yea!
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go 4 it
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drill, baby, drill!
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k
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No mention of output.

Whoop-Dee-Doo.
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Good.
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Ok
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 9:53:45 PM

Petrobras starting production at Chinook field in United States gulf and aren't they the one's who given a huge amount of taxpayers money.
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Message Posted: Sep 14, 2012 9:47:01 PM

Some body is going to go after any Oil found. Why not the US?
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The US should've been doing this instead.
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