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SEP 22, 2010 11:19 EDT

BRAZIL | PETROBRAS

Brazil’s massive sale of about $79 billion of Petrobras stock looks set for a string of financial superlatives. One of them, however, won’t be loudly crowed about by investment bankers. The underwriting fee on the deal, which is expected to close this week, looks to be among the lowest yet in a global stock offering of this kind.

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MONDAY, JUNE 28, 2010

Petrobras less than spotless on the enviornment and indigenous rights

Petrobras, the Brazilian petrochemical giant which the New Zealand Government has done a deal with to explore deep off the country’s North Island East Coast, has a less than spotless environmental record.

At about the same time as the Brazilian state-controlled c...

Petrobras Abandons Plans for Oil Road in Ecuadorian Amazon Park

WASHINGTON, DC, April 24, 2006 (ENS) - The Brazilian national oil company Petrobras has relinquished plans to build a new access road into Yasuni National Park, located in the megadiverse Ecuadorian Amazon. The company has not given up on oil development within the park, but now says it will employ helicopters to access the site.

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Company Snapshot:

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., is a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. The company was founded in 1953 and is a former Brazilian oil monopoly. Its output is more than 2 million Barrels of oil equi...

Friday, 16 March, 2001, 20:33 GMT

Brazil oil spill company in spotlight

Barriers used to fight the slicks have been ineffective

By Jan Rocha in Brazil

Two massive oil spills in Brazil in six months last year focused international attention on the state oil company, Petrobras.

A disastrous oil leak at the Braz...