Oil & Gas: Weekend Updates Visit O&GLinks to read more relevant news articles. Statoil and ExxonMobil team up on Carcara in pre-salt round Norway's Statoil and U.S. ExxonMobil have jointly won the production sharing contract for the Carcará North block in Brazil’s second pre-salt offshore licensing round. A consortium comprising Statoil (operator, 40%), ExxonMobil (40%) and Galp (20%) was the highest bid (67.12% of profit oil) for the block in the Santos basin. 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. The pre-determined signature bonus to be paid by the consortium is US$910 million. Read More Oil & Gas news headlines you may have missed... Tullow fails to find oil off South America Consortium made up of Petrobras, Repsol, Shell awarded Brazil deepwater block Fire at Tehran oil refinery kills 6 people, injures 2 What Trump's Iran action means for Japan's energy interests Total: Main contract for Iran's South Pars field to be awarded after Trump's clarity Shell adds Transocean drillship in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico Indian firms eye stake in Adnoc's offshore oil concession Mexico and Indonesia could be next up for Eni's asset sales Don't miss out the latest any oil and gas news. Register for free to personalize your newsboard. Read the news that matters most to you, whenever you want. Create your personalized O&G newsboard. It's free. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Website OGLINKS.NEWS Your Personalized Oil & Gas Newsfeed If you are no longer interested, you can unsubscribe instantly