Brasília – Brazil is going to increase its allocation of funds to the special line that is going to aid the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as announced today (25th) the Brazilian minister of Finance, Guido Mantega. According to him, the country is going to raise the total amount of funds to be passed on to
Author: Agência Brasil
Brasília – The flow of dollars into and out of Brazil up to the 20th of November generated a positive result of US$ 1.481 billion, said the Central Bank of Brazil today (25). In the same period in November 2008, in which there were 14 working days, there was a US$ 2.533 billion outflow of
The Brazilian market received nearly US$ 10 billion in foreign funds last month, the highest monthly figure since the Brazilian Central Bank started keeping track, in 1947.
Brasília – In the third week of November, Brazil had a trade surplus of US$ 345 million, resulting from US$ 2.907 billion in exports and US$ 2.562 billion in imports. The figure points to a recovery of the trade surplus, after the country ran a deficit in the first week of the month (US$ 147
This statement was made in partnership with Getulio Vargas Foundation and the Economic Research Institute of the University of Munich. Some 146 specialist from 11 countries were approached.
The figure concerns the year-to-date period ended September. The food industry generated the highest turnover, followed by pulp and paper. The figures for 2009 are similar to those of 2007.
In October, extraction in Brazil was greater than in the same month of last year.
Rio de Janeiro – Petrobras and BG Group are going to establish a joint venture to develop an engineering product turned to the construction of an on-board gas liquefaction unit on maritime platforms. The plant is one of the technological alternatives under study by Petrobras to transfer the gas produced in the pre-salt layers in
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%.
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
