Resultados decepcionantes de exploración de petróleo en el Golfo de México

¿Y el "tesoro" calderónico de proporciones legendarias, que se nos anuncia cada 5 minutos en la tv, dónde está entonces?

Disappointing oil exploration results in the Gulf of Mexico are upsetting the hopes of US oil majors for big new findings in an area free from interference by foreign, state-owned oil companies.

Wood MacKenzie, the energy consultancy, said in a new report that findings in the Gulf in 2007 were the lowest of the past decade. With a total of 553m barrels of oil equivalent, these new reserves were less than half of what was found in 2006...

...According to the report, exploration in the Gulf deep-water region is becoming more costly. The average quantity discovered per exploration well decreased in 2007 to 16m barrels of oil equivalent – well below the 10-year average for the region of 26m barrels of oil equivalent per exploration well.

It took billions of dollars to develop reserves in the deep water, said Tim Sampson, the American Petroleum Institute’s senior adviser of Upstream. “So, to make a project economically viable, you have to have an extremely good find.’’