Petrobras and Ecopetrol last year announced a natural gas discovery at the Uchuva-1 deepwater well in the Tayrona block, 32 kilometers off Colombia's coast. Petrobras two years earlier had offered its stake for sale following poor exploration results at a previous well, Orca-1. Petrobras operates the Tayrona block. (Reporting by Mariana Parraga)
@mariannaparraga)) )) HOUSTON, May 1 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-controlled oil
company Petrobras has abandoned a plan to sell its
44% stake in a promising offshore gas project it shares with
Colombia's Ecopetrol in the Andean country, a Petrobras
executive said at a Houston energy conference on Monday.
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