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BEHIND THE NEWS: Why Coelho Filho Decided To Continue as Brazil’s Minister of Mines and Energy

Redação May 24, 2017

The Minister of Mines and Energy, Fernando Coelho Filho, decided to remain in Michel Temer’s administration, even after the PSB, his political party, decided to withdraw from the coalition and demand the resignation of the…

BRAZIL’S POLITICAL CRISIS: International press roundup

Redação May 22, 2017

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Brazilians around the country staged demonstrations Sunday calling for their president to step down after the supreme court opened an investigation into allegations he endorsed the payment of hush money to a jailed…

INTERNATIONAL PRESS ROUNDUP: Brazilian political crisis

Redação May 19, 2017

The swirling, tumultuous events of this week involving Pres. Temer and prominent lawmakers in corruption charges that are threatening the downfall of his government have been widely and prominently covered in the mainstream international…

14th Bid Round To Be Stricter

Redação Oct 17, 2016

The selection of the offshore areas under study for the National Petroleum Agency’s (ANP) 14th Bid Round scheduled for 2017 is stricter than that offered in the previous round, avoiding areas in the new frontier – offshore…

ANP Analyzes Waiver for Libra FPSO

Redação Sep 9, 2016

Experts from the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) have already begun working on a request by the Libra consortium for a waiver of the local content requirements for the FPSO for the field being put out to tender. The vessel will be…

PetroRio To Drill Two New Wells In Polvo

Redação Aug 12, 2016

PetroRio expects to drill up to two new wells in the Polvo field in the Campos Basin. The information was disclosed by Renato Jerusalmi, the oil company’s finance department manager during a conference call with investors today…

Operation License Requested

Redação Jun 2, 2016

Petrobras has requested an Operating License (OL) for the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba. The vessel will be responsible for production in the Lapa field in the Santos Basin pre-salt area, with start-up scheduled for the second half of…

Cidade de Ilhabela Hits Capacity Peak

Redação May 5, 2016

The FSPO Cidade de Ilhabela, installed in the northern part of the Sapinhoá field in the Santos Basin pre-salt, reached peak capacity production in April, helping the area to hit an average production of 270,000 boepd. The…

Petrobras Charters Prosafe Flotel

Redação Aug 14, 2015

TheFloatel Safe Euros being buit in China Prosafe signed a US$ 164 million contract with Petrobras for a three-year charter of the Safe Eurus flotel, classified by the oil company as Maintenance and Security Unit (UMS). The…

From Water To Wind

Redação Dec 8, 2014

The country with enormously powerful hydroelectric power plants such as Itaipu (14,000 MW) and Tucuruí (8,370 MW) is now facing a totally unforeseen enemy: lack of water. After months of drought, the levels in the reservoirs worry…

Hotlines

Redação Dec 8, 2014

Ibama Ok’s FPSO Ilhabela Brazil’s environmental regulator, Ibama, has issued an operations license to Petrobras for the FPSO Cidade de Ilhabela, which has been cleared to begin production immediately in the Sapinhoá…

Hotlines

Redação Dec 8, 2014

The Most Productive Wind Farms With capacity factors ranging from 67% to 81%, in September the ten most productive wind farms were all located in Ceará state. The highest factor was recorded for Tractebel’s Trairí…

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Jun 19, 2018 - Bloomberg

Brazil’s growth forecasts fell for a seventh consecutive week as economists assessed the impact of a nationwide trucker strike, growing emerging market turbulence and domestic uncertainty ahead of the October presidential election. Economists in a weekly central bank survey lowered their 2018 estimate for gross domestic product to 1.76 percent, the lowest level for the year since President Michel Temer took office in May 2016 and fuelled hopes of faster economic recovery.

Jun 19, 2018 - Agencia Brasil – EBC

President Michel Temer said that Mercosur needs to make further strides towards an active role in the global economy. He expressed his support for the advancement of talks for a free-trade deal between Mercosur and the European Union (EU) during a speech directed at South American heads of state in Asuncion, Paraguay. “As for external negotiations, our choice is unequivocal—more and better opening. Instead of confining us to ourselves, we work together to bring our countries into the global economy. Our strategy is crucial to ensure the competitiveness of our products, employment generation, and income to our people,” he said.

Jun 19, 2018 - Canada Free Press

Brazil ranks eighth in the world in wind-generated power with 12,763 megawatts. The country is building offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean where both the wind and noise are fairly consistent. One of Brazil’s offshore wind farms is a mile from the beach where the view and the noise is a constant reminder to the residents in the area. Investors in Brazil’s offshore wind industry are cautious, however, as the construction of transmission lines is slow, and poor infrastructure increases the price of imported parts. Further, lawmakers are proposing a tax on wind- and solar-generated power as the government plans to profit from their generation.

Jun 18, 2018 - Mehr News Agency

The Brazilian government will spare no efforts to help Brazilian and Iranian firms develop relations after the U.S. withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal, according to the Brazilian ambassador to Iran in an exclusive interview with the MNA. “Brazil has a well-developed industry in manufacturing equipment and engineering services in oil and gas sector. In Brazil, we have developed the oil production very fast. We have a good group of industries that can cooperate with Iran. Iran as well has made progress in oil and gas sector and it can cooperate with Brazil,” Brazil's Ambassador to Tehran Rodrigo de Azeredo Santos said.