A large oil field would hide in France

[freddau]

Located off the seaside resort of Lacanau, this deposit would allow the extraction of nearly 40.000 barrels per day, whereas the Hexagon barely produces 30.000 today.


France, the future oil eldorado? We are far from it, and yet ... A major Canadian oil group will begin exploration off the seaside resort of Lacanau in an attempt to discover a major oil deposit. The French subsidiary Vermilion, Vermilion France, indicated that this represented an "initial investment of about 30 million euros".


Exploration, which will begin "early next week" will be 45 km from the coast, at a depth of between 2.500 and 2.800 m. The "Byford Dolphin" drilling platform, coming directly from the North Sea, is expected to start drilling on Thursday. For the time being, a "logistics base" has been installed at the mouth of the Gironde estuary. The operation should last about twenty days.


For two to three years, seismic studies had reported a large oil deposit off the coast of Landes. For the company, the total production potential could approach 40.000 barrels per day.


A huge figure in terms of French production, which barely reaches 30.000 barrels per day. However, this remains tiny when compared to world daily consumption, which approaches 85 million barrels per day, and hexagonal, which reaches 2 million.


Nevertheless, the investment is heavy. The cost of operation would require "an investment of 450 million euros over 10 years". But this no longer seems to put off the companies. Since 2002 and the surge in oil prices, companies in the sector are now less reluctant to drill in less accessible places to extract crude. The Vermilion France group is one of the leading producers in France and is present through 200 wells, particularly in Aquitaine and the Paris region.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/matieres/2007082 ... rance.html

Moui, boff although 40.000 barrels / day, it's not nothing

[renaud67]

and then it is magnificent an offshore station in the landscape !!

are strong it's lobbyists

[Other]

Hello

why do you think that the big powers try to claim the sovereignty of the great north since the melting of the ice the big boats can easily access there is significant oil slick as well as ore to extract
(for the same global warming of $$) the rest they don't care they know that they will not live forever after having flies if it remains alive)

The oil slicks are almost all known today, but not yet technologically accessible, but the problem is not to know that we will run out of them, the damage done to nature by the combustion of this oil will have caught us well before having exhausted this resource ..

Each time they have access to a deposit, this delays the search for an alternative clean solution.

Andre