The BRICS channel assured that the Kremlin found an oil reserve 30 times larger than Vaca Muerta. The news intensifies geopolitical tension in the midst of the War in Ukraine. There are suspicions about a possible violation of the Antarctic Treaty. The Government is investigating the situation.
Russia discovered a giant hydrocarbon reserve in the area of Antarctica over which Argentina plants its flag. It is also the area where the United Kingdom and Chile dispute space. In fact, in the BRICS post on the social network
The discovery is extremely important globally as it contains an estimated value of 511 billion barrels of oil, 10 times the production of the North Sea in the last 50 years.
The news was explosive, given that Russia’s activity on the white continent could violate the Antarctic Treaty. This is an international agreement signed in 1959 by Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, the Union of Southern Africa, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. The first article of that pact provides that Antarctica will be used “exclusively for peaceful purposes.”
Russia has long carried out mapping and probing programs of Antarctic geology, both terrestrial and underwater, but recent data indicate that its research vessels have discovered gas and oil reserves equivalent to 511 billion barrels of oil, an amount approximately ten times greater than the total production of the North Sea in fifty years.
