BP today announced a transaction that will deliver a material exploration position in the deepwater offshore Brazil and significantly enhance its position in core strategic areas.
www.bp.com...
BP began deepwater Gulf of Mexico operations in the mid 1980s and is currently the largest producer in the Gulf of Mexico. BP is also the leading explorer in the Gulf region, with BP's findings representing over 30 percent of all the large fields discovered in the last decade. Today, BP explores and produces oil and gas from over twenty fields, including BP operated facilities at Pompano (1994), Marlin (2000), Horn Mountain (2002), Na Kika (2003), Holstein (2004), Mad Dog (2005), Atlantis (2007) and Thunder Horse (2008), with Mad Dog, Atlantis and Thunder Horse being among the giant oil and gas fields.
For many people the word "Atlantis" will conjure up thoughts of the legendary Greek isle, yet there is nothing ancient or mythical about BP's Atlantis project. Following the discovery of the oil and gas field in 1998, BP’s most skilled engineering team successfully operated at a water depth of 7,074 feet (2,156 meters), a record which had been kept for a long period of time.
We all know how Atlantis ended...
So did they discover that the flow was not enough to supply their ever increasing needs of a newly developing country as well as to continue to share with the rest of the world therefore creating the BP explosions to be able to errect more wells?
[edit on 14-6-2010 by antar]


