Jose Eduardo Dutra, former Petroleo Brasileiro SA chief executive and Workers’ Party president, died Sunday after battling cancer, the party’s website said. He was 58.
Dutra, a union leader and party member who was elected senator in 1994, became the state-run energy company’s first CEO under the four consecutive Workers’ Party governments, in 2003. He was appointed by then president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the position at Petrobras, which he occupied until 2005.
Dutra also headed Petrobras’s fuel distribution unit from 2007 to 2009. He left the subsidiary, known as BR, to become the Workers’ Party president for two years starting in 2010.
Brazil Energy Insight 
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