Brazil’s land based natural resources and industries are well depicted in the map below. What you don’t see here is a significant amount of land based oil exploration. It appears at this reading that the most significant oil reserves are off shore.
![Brazil natural resources](http://brazilndx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/brazil-resource-map-936x1024.gif)
Offshore oil resources are shown here. you can see significant ongoing oil production activity off the southern coast of Brasil
![Offshore oil brazil](http://brazilndx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/brazil-offshore-oil.jpg)
this image includes some land based activity as well as a more complete view of the Brazil offshore oil activity
![Brazil Oil reserves](http://brazilndx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/brasil-oil-reserves-2007-includes-land-based.gif)