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Oil prices are down nearly 10 percent over the past month, leading some to wonder if we're set for a resumption of the plunge seen between 2014 and early 2016. Executives at oil companies, however, are optimistic. A new note from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. dives into fourth quarter earnings calls to get a sense... Continue Reading →
Brazil's Supreme Court is likely to begin ordering the release next month of suspects in the country's biggest corruption investigation who have been held for months without being brought to trial, a senior judicial source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Such a decision would be a setback for Sergio Moro, the federal judge... Continue Reading →
BP Plc’s shares surged the most this year after a London newspaper reported on rumors that Exxon Mobil Corp. sounded out major shareholders over a potential takeover. While a bid for BP can’t be ruled out, reports about Exxon’s interest have been around for years and analysts from Macquarie Capital Ltd. to Canaccord Genuity said a... Continue Reading →
Brazilian politicians worried they could be swept up in the next round of a devastating three-year corruption probe may have to sit tight just a bit longer to find out. Chief prosecutor Rodrigo Janot may ask the Supreme Court as early as Monday to authorize new inquiries into lawmakers based on secret testimony from executives... Continue Reading →
Rio de Janeiro, March 9, 2017 – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras, in addition to the material facts disclosed on 11/30/2016 and 02/10/2017, informs that it was suspended today by the President of the Federal Regional Court for the 5th Region, the injunction that determined the interruption of the sale of 90% of Petrobras stake... Continue Reading →
Royal Dutch Shell Plc just took a big step toward remaking itself as a natural gas company. With Thursday’s deal to sell $7.25 billion of Canadian oil-sands assets, Shell will boost the share of cleaner-burning gas in its proven reserves from about half to 60 percent, Shell data show. It will also rid itself of... Continue Reading →
Exploration is not dead, quite the opposite, now is the time to invest, E&P players say | Offshore Energy Today http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/wp-content/themes/navingo20/js/html5.js http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/wp-content/themes/navingo20/js/respond.min.js Despite what you may have heard, conventional oil and gas exploration is not dead, and on the contrary, this might even be the perfect time for the exploration players to invest. This was... Continue Reading →
Brazil's annual inflation rate probably fell in February to its lowest level since 2010, easing below 5 percent to approach the government target, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday. The survey's median forecast was for consumer prices to have risen 4.88 percent in the 12 months through February, slowing from a 5.35 percent increase in... Continue Reading →
Brazil’s industrial output fell less than forecast in January as policy makers seek signs that the country is on its way out of its biggest recession on record. Production fell 0.1 percent in the month, compared with the median 0.4 percent decline forecast by 41 economists polled by Bloomberg. From a year earlier, industrial output expanded... Continue Reading →
Investigations into Brazil’s embattled construction giant Odebrecht SA are exposing a larger network of graft in Latin America than was already revealed in a massive anticorruption settlement, according to prosecutors in several countries. Since the firm admitted in December to paying nearly $800 million in bribes, authorities across Latin America have launched new investigations that... Continue Reading →
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