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The Rio Times LatAm Market Brief

Saturday, August 15, 2026

By Matthias Camenzind, Publisher

Petrobras has found oil at the mouth of the Amazon — on the frontier it spent years fighting for permission to drill.

On Thursday Petrobras confirmed hydrocarbons in its Morpho well, block FZA-M-59 in the Foz do Amazonas basin — its first such result off Amapá. The well sits in 2,886 metres of water, about 175 km off the coast and roughly 500 km from the mouth of the Amazon. Read the caveat carefully: the oil was identified through electric logs and rock samples, drilling continues, and Petrobras has not said whether the volumes are worth producing. This is a find, not yet a discovery worth building on. What makes it matter is where it is — the Equatorial Margin that IBAMA refused to license for years, and the same geology that made Guyana rich.

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