Il y a les Italiens de SAIPEM sur le coup aussi en association avec des Espagnols de REPSOL, avec une plateforme toute neuve construite en chine et qui va arriver sur place en 2 mois de navigation.le 15 Juillet 2010 energy_isere a écrit :La société Russe Zarubezhneft va forer en offshore à Cuba en 2011.
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Les tazus sont hors course puisque leur gouvernement à mis Cuba sous embargo depuis longtemps.
article en 4 pages ici : http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOil ... 3020100730HAVANA, July 30 (Reuters) - A Chinese-built drilling rig is expected to arrive in Cuban waters in early 2011, likely opening the open the way for full-scale exploration of the island's untapped offshore fields.
An official with Saipem, a unit of Italian oil company Eni SpA ENI.M told Reuters on Friday the massive semi-submersible rig should be completed at the Yantai Raffles YRSL.NFF shipyard in Yantai, China by the end of this year.
The journey to Cuba will take two months, and once it arrives it will be put into operation almost immediately, said the official, who asked not to be identified.
It will be used first as an exploratory well for a consortium led by Spanish oil giant Repsol YPF (REP.MC: Quote) (REP.N: Quote), which drilled the only offshore well in Cuba in 2004 and said at the time it had found hydrocarbons.
Cuba has said it may have 20 billion barrels of oil in its offshore, but the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated a more modest 4.6 billion barrels and 10 trillion cubic feet of gas.
Repsol has been mostly silent on the long delay in drilling more wells, but it is widely assumed in the oil industry it was due to the longstanding U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.
The embargo limits the amount of U.S. technology that can be used, which complicates finding equipment because U.S. companies have long dominated the offshore oil business.
Cuba's portion of the Gulf of Mexico has been divided into 59 blocks, of which 17 have been contracted to companies including Repsol, Malaysia's Petronas PETR.UL, Brazil's Petrobras (PETR4.SA) (PBR.N), Venezuela's PDVSA and PetroVietnam.
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The Saipem official said the Scarabeo 9, which is capable of operating in water depths up to 3,600 meters (11,811 feet), is built to Norwegian standards, meaning it has extra equipment to shut off blown-out wells not required in the United States.
Due to the U.S. trade embargo, U.S. oil companies are not allowed to operate in Cuba.
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