据今日油价网站4月18日消息 巴西将于10月举行一次海上石油储备拍卖，拍卖的区块是与巴西国家能源巨头巴西国家石油公司有所争议的地区。

路透社援引经济部长Paulo Guedes的话报道称，参加拍卖的公司需要为这四个区块支付269亿美元的签约资金。

这些区块位于巴西海岸外的盐下区，是政府十年前授予巴西国家石油公司勘探和开发权的一部分。根据最初的协议，它有权根据当时的石油价格开采50亿桶石油和天然气。然而，合同的复杂条款包括对2014年宣布商业可行后该地区成本的审查。

政府和巴西国家石油公司都声称他们拖欠数十亿美元，巴国油也对该国石油监管机构ANP对该地区储量的估计提出了异议。

巴国油已经对该地区进行了勘探，发现在这个低风险的近海地区储备有更多的石油。据估计，权利转让区域可容纳多达150亿桶石油，超过2010年政府将该区域转让给巴国油有权生产的50亿桶石油。将在10月份拍卖的这四个区块储量超过100亿桶。

与此同时，巴国油和巴西政府几乎解决了他们在向该地区转让权利方面的分歧。上个月，路透社援引巴西媒体的话称，巴西政府可能会向巴国油支付约100亿美元，低于此前报道的140亿美元，但数额仍很可观。

王磊 摘译自 今日油价

原文如下：

Brazil To Put Up New Pre-Salt Oil Blocks For Auction In October

Brazil will hold an offshore oil deposit auction in October featuring blocks that were the object of a long-running dispute with state energy giant Petrobras.

Reuters reports, citing Economy Minister Paulo Guedes, that participants in the auction will need to cough up a signing bonus of a total US$26.9 billion for the four blocks.

The blocks, located in the presalt zone off the Brazilian coast, are part of an area the government awarded for exploration and development to Petrobras a decade ago. Under the original deal, it had the right to extract 5 billion barrels of oil and gas based on the oil prices at the time. The complex provisions of the contract, however, included a review of the costs in the area after it was declared commercially viable in 2014.

Both parties—the government and Petrobras—have claimed that they are owed billions of U.S. dollars, and the oil company has also disputed the estimates of the reserves in the area made by the country’s oil regulator, ANP.

The state oil firm has explored the area and found that a lot more oil lies in this low-risk offshore zone. There are estimates that the transfer-of-rights area could hold up to 15 billion barrels of oil in excess of the 5 billion barrels to which Petrobras was entitled to produce when the government transferred the area to the state firm in 2010.

The four blocks to be auctioned in October contain that excess 10 billion barrels in reserves.

Meanwhile, Petrobras and the Brazilian government have all but settled their differences regarding the transfer of rights to the area. Last month, Reuters cited Brazilian media as saying the government was likely to pay Petrobras some US$10 billion, which was lower than a previously reported US$14 billion but still a substantial sum.