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Brazil’s oil industry has absolutely exploded in recent years, and now the Latin American country could even be on track to becoming a global top 5 producer. In a little over a decade Latin America’s largest economy Brazil has become a leading global oil producer. At the end of 2020, …

Brazil’s state-led oil company Petrobras discovered hydrocarbons in the C-M-411 block located in the offshore Campos Basin, the company said Jan. 29. “The data from the well will be analyzed to better guide exploratory activities in the area and the potential of the discovery,” Petrobras said. The discovery was made …

Sharply weaker oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and heightened geopolitical uncertainty have done little to blunt Brazil’s epic offshore oil boom. By September 2020 Brazil had soared to be the third-largest supplier of crude oil to China, the world’s second-largest economy. The scale of Brazil’s deep-water offshore oil boom is …

China is making a major power play to expand its global energy influence. The United States has long played an outsized role in global geopolitics and energy markets thanks to the shale revolution which jettisoned the country to the top of the fossil fuel food chain. But if you’ve been …

Brazil climbed to № 3 among China’s crude oil suppliers last month thanks to continued purchases by independent refiners, whose quotas for imported crude oil are running out, Oilprice analysed. Imports of Brazilian crude oil stood at 4.49 million tons in September, according to a Reuters report. This translates into …

Brazil’s Petrobras has initiated the sale process for a group of 26 onshore and shallow-water oil fields and a small nearby refinery in the northeastern part of the country, as the state-run company forges ahead with its ambitious divestment program. In a securities filing, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the firm …

Brazil has suspended its 17th licensing round which would have seen the state oil regulator ANP offering 128 offshore exploration blocks throughout the country, fearing that the plummeting oil prices and unprecedented declines in global crude demand entailing double-digit-percent CAPEX cuts will set the stage for another fiasco. With two …

According to research conducted by the Iranian Parliament Research Center (IPRC), the Islamic Republic of Iran stood higher than Turkey, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Brazil in Industrialization Intensity Index.

Atlas Renewable Energy has signed a deal with Anglo American to build the ‘largest solar plant’ in Brazil with a R$881 million (£143.5m) investment. The Atlas Casablanca solar plant will have an installed capacity of 330MW, with more than 800,000 panels allowing it to produce enough energy to supply a …

Petrobras has a lot of oil and lot of areas to exploit. but it doesn’t have enough funds to prospect all these areas.