Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras announced yesterday (14), in a press release, that it has notified the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuel Agency (ANP) about the discovery of a new high-quality oil producing area in the Basin of Espírito Santo (SE Brazil). According to Petrobras, the discovery was made within
Author: Agência Brasil
Exports last week totalled US$ 4.295 billion and imports, US$ 3.07 billion. In the first 13 days of the month, exports stood at US$ 7.482 billion, and imports, at US$ 5.952 billion.
Foreign sales grew more than expected. In the first half of the year, they generated US$ 90.6 billion. Imports rose even more and the trade surplus should be smaller in 2008.
The Chinese want to know how Brazil produces, transports, stores and mixes alcohol with petrol. A mission organised by the Brazilian government is in the Asian country this week.
The announcement was made yesterday by the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, in the first day of the G8 summit, in Japan.
Brasília – The Bank of Brazil is going to make available 30.8 billion Brazilian reals (US$ 19.1 billion) for the financing of rural credit in the 2008/2009 crop. The value corresponds to an increase of 25% over that made available in the previous crop, when funds totalled 24.7 billion (US$ 15.3 billion). Of the value
The figure is the result of US$ 3.187 billion in exports and US$ 2.882 billion in imports.
In all, 1.68 million units were produced in Brazil in the first half of this year. On the domestic market, 1.4 million vehicles were traded, 30% more. Exports totalled 366,000 vehicles in the period.
Brazilian exports totalled US$ 18.6 billion in the month and imports, US$ 15.9 billion. In the accumulated result for the year so far, the surplus stands at US$ 11.4 billion.
Revenues from the sector in the country total US$ 376 million, a figure that goes up to US$ 1.5 billion when the accessories and related services segments are included.
The majority of funds should go to road paving. Work is scheduled to begin in August.
Brasília – The Brazilian Central Bank maintained its growth projection for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at 4.8%, this year. The estimate was taken from the Quarterly Inflation Report, disclosed today (25th) by the Central Bank. The previous report had been issued in March. The projection is made based on the assumption that the basic
The information was taken from the PIA-Product survey, disclosed today by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Next come the auto, meats, mining and steel industries.
The Brazilian state-owned oil company launched the initiative yesterday (23rd), aiming to spread best practices in planning, construction engineering and installations assembly.
