The discovery was in Campos Basin. The recoverable volume is estimated at 25 million barrels. The new discovery should expand the recoverable volume of oil at Marimbá field, in Rio de Janeiro, by 27%.
Author: Agência Brasil
The Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, claimed that the country’s greenhouse emission reduction targets will be attained through increased use of existing technologies.
The statement was made by the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Rome, Italy, today (16th), during the opening of the World Summit on Food Security.
Rio de Janeiro – The drilling of one more oil well in Tupi field – the fourth drilled in the largest field ever discovered in the pre-salt layer by Petrobras has confirmed the Brazilian state-owned company’s estimated potential for exploration of 5 to 8 billion barrels of light oil and natural gas at the reservoir
Brasília – From August 2008 to July 2009, the Amazon lost 7,000 square metres of forest. It is the lowest annual deforestation rate ever recorded by the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), since the survey began in 1988. The figure, which was better than the government forecast, of 9,000 square kilometres, was disclosed today
Rio de Janeiro – The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy has issued a release confirming that the blackout in the National Interconnected System (SIN) affected 18 states in the country, and began precisely at 10:13 pm yesterday (10th). According to the release, the problem had its origin in the energy coming from the Itaipu
Brasília – The Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, confirmed today (11th) the visit of the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, to Brazil on the 20th this month. The information was disclosed after a meeting with the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, in the Brazilian capital, Brasília. The visit of the Palestinian
São Paulo – The interruption in electric power supply affected 5.8 million consumers in the region supplied by the AES Eletropaulo power company, which encompasses the capital of the state and 23 other municipalities in the state of São Paulo. According to the company – which is one out of 14 power distribution companies in
Brasília – In a three-hour meeting, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accepted to expand the pre-salt oil royalties of producer states from 18% to 25%. The governors of the states of Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo wanted 33%. With this, the share of royalties turned to the Union dropped from 27% to 19%.
Maputo – Brazilian businessmen, whose sectors may be affected by a surcharge on 222 products imported from the United States celebrated yesterday (10), in the capital of Mozambique, the initiative adopted as retaliation against illegal subsidies granted by the North American government to cotton producers. The businessmen are on a trade delegation to the south
São Paulo – Exports of vehicles have increased 16.7% (47,196 units) last month in comparison with September (40,448 units), but decreased 31.2% when compared with October 2008 (68,641 units), according to data from the National Association of Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfavea). There was a 42% reduction in the year-to-date result. So far this year, foreign sales
Brasília – Brazil started the month of September running a trade deficit of US$ 147 million, as informed today (9th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. The figure resulted from US$ 2.606 billion in expos and US$ 2.753 billion in imports in the first week of the month, which had four
Brasília – The coordinator of the Interministerial Executive Committee for Biodiesel, Rodrigo Rodrigues, said today (9) that the government is interested in expanding the percentage of biodiesel in regular diesel sold at fuel stations. He pointed out, however, that this percentage may only be expanded compulsorily through a law. Up to January 2010, the diesel
Brasília – The estimated growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), i.e. the sum of the goods and services produced in the country has increased from 0.18% to 0.20% for 2009. For 2010, the growth estimate has been revised from 4.80% up to 4.83%. The data were taken from the Focus bulletin, published on a
