Petrobras Sees Worst Quarter in 13 Years
Petrobrás, Brazil’s semi-public oil producer, suffered losses of R$1.35 billion in the second semester of this year, the company’s worst...
August 7, 2012Topic
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Rio de Janeiro State Oil Exports Soar: Daily
While Brazil’s economic power-engine cools down in the global financial crisis, the economy of the State of Rio continues to...
June 25, 2012
Gas Imports Up as Consumption Grows
Consumption of gasoline in Brazil grew 34 percent in the last year, reaching record heights as the country’s development powers...
April 3, 2012
New Chevron Oil Leak in Brazil: Daily
The Brazilian branch of U.S. oil company, Chevron, announced yesterday that they had identified a new oil leak in their...
March 16, 2012
Repsol, Statoil in Brazil Oil Discovery
Statoil, Repsol Sinopec and partner Petrobrás, confirmed they had made a “high-impact” discovery in the Pão de Açúcar prospect off...
February 28, 2012
Petrobras Plans Fifty New Floating Cities
Petrobras is expanding with the deployment of self-sustaining platforms located far offshore which have been dubbed ‘floating cities’.
May 31, 2011
ANP Faces Uncertain Future
By Jewellord T. Nem Singh, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – The National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Combustibles...
July 20, 2010
Lula Fights For Pre-Salt Control
By Doug Gray, Contributing Reporter [caption id="attachment_10758" align="alignleft" width="207" caption="President Lula; ready to fight to control the pre-salt oil profits,...
September 15, 2009
Lula Gives TV Oil Speech
By Doug Gray, Contributing Reporter [caption id="attachment_10239" align="alignleft" width="214" caption="President Lula addressed the nation on television on Sunday night, photo...
September 8, 2009