ExxonMobil to Acquire Interest in Block Containing Brazil’s Carcara Oil Field from Statoil

IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ExxonMobil announced today that it has completed an agreement to purchase half of Statoil’s interest in the BM-S-8 block offshore Brazil, which contains part of the pre-salt Carcara oil field. The Carcara field contains an estimated recoverable resource of 2 billion barrels of high-quality oil. The block is located approximately 200 miles offshore Rio de Janeiro.

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