BP: Arctic Ocean may have a 200 billion barrels of oil and gas resources

September 2 in London, Europe's No. 2 oil company British Petroleum, said here today that the company estimates that the Arctic Ocean may have about 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent of oil and gas resources, this figure accounts for the global oil and gas reserves to be found in 25% to 50%.

British Petroleum is responsible for exploration operations director Mike Daly, September 2 In an interview with Horizon's in-house magazine interview, said that this is a huge unexplored areas. British Petroleum nowadays are Russia, Canada and the United States outside of Alaska at the Arctic Sea oil and gas exploration operations.

According to Daley said, the British Petroleum nowadays with the Russian oil giant Rosneft's cooperation in the Russian Far East and Arctic exploration for oil and natural gas. In January of this year, British Petroleum employs the world's largest seismic company CGGVeritas in Canada, outside of the northern coast of the Beaufort Sea exploration operations.

British Petroleum recently constructed in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Tiber has discovered an estimated 3 billion barrels of oil reserves, oil fields. It is reported that British Petroleum is currently the amount of exploration work in 40% of the Gulf of Mexico, Angola and Egypt.

Sep. 4, 2009