RIO DE JANEIRO -(Dow Jones)- Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) next year will start producing from heavy oil fields in the BC-10 block in Brazil's Campos Basin, the Valor newspaper said Thursday.
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Shell To Start Output At Brazil BC-10 Oil Block In 2009-Valor
Time for big oil to explore places it would rather avoid
Rising costs and taxes, and limited access to new supplies help explain why BP and Shell have performed so badly and underperformed US peers ExxonMobil and Chevron. But other factors have been at work, such as the fatal accident at BP's Texas City oil refinery and the reserve misreporting scandal at Shell.