Despite the crisis, the state-owned oil company ended last year with a net profit of US$ 16.1 billion. From January until December 2009, the total output of oil and natural gas equivalent rose by 5%.
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The company achieved a quarterly record-high number of deliveries late last year, and recorded a net cash flow of US$ 476 million in 2009.
São Cristóvão neighbourhood, in Rio de Janeiro, should be reinvented by the state and municipal governments and private enterprises. The idea is to make it a fashion hub for Brazil and abroad.
The search for executives in Brazil has risen in 2009 as against the previous year, according to a study by consultancy company DBM. This took place due to growth of the Brazilian economy.
The find was made after drilling an exploratory in the post salt layer in Sergipe Basin. The volume of oil recoverable is estimated at 15 million barrels.
Brazil had revenues of US$ 484 million with sales to the Arabs in February, 45% more than in the same period in 2009. Sugar was mainly responsible. Export as a whole grew 27%.
The operations should start in June and will connect Doha to São Paulo. The flights from Brazil will have a leg in Buenos Aires.
The Arab country has started the second phase of one of its main gas exploration projects, in Al-Jorf field. The operations are developed by Mabrouk, in the NOC group.
British company BP has acquired the Devon Energy rights to explore areas in Campos Basin. The agreement, which also includes other areas for international exploration, cost US$ 7 billion.
Brazil should be theme of talk at Med Log, a conference in the logistics area to take place in Tangier, in April. The country was chosen as the focus of the meeting is food exports.
Production in the country should rise by 190,000 barrels a day this year, the largest growth among the countries that are not part of the OPEC. The forecast is by the organisation itself.
Ahead of Arab food restaurants in São Paulo, entrepreneurs show, on International Women’s Day, that they are successful due to talent and to the care with which they work.
The institution has had a new director for two months. Ahmad Serieh, born in Damascus, graduated in History and worked with archaeological excavations some years before coming to Brazil.
According to the IBGE, production rose 16% in January, as against the same month in 2009, and 1.1% over December, boosted by growth in foreign sales and in the domestic market.
