SAO PAULO (AFP) – Brazil on Wednesday sought to uncover the cause of a massive and mysterious blackout overnight, amid concerns of energy supply stability for the 2016 Olympic host nation.
The outage, which hit at 10:15 pm Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday) and lasted four to six hours, plunged nearly half the country into darkness.
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National Petroleum Agency(NPA) has said that with this new found Brazil is about to surpass U.S in oil reserve, currently according to the US Energy Department, Brazil’s existing proven oil reserves total 11.8 billion barrels, while the US holds 21.8 billion. The new discovery can give Petrobras 33 billion barrels in reserve.
The results are not [...]

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Petrobras, Brazil, has approved the early stage of contracting for platform P-62, slated to be installed in Module 4 at the Roncador Field, in the Campos Basin.
After carrying out several internal technical and economic studies, the company decided the best option was to reuse the P-54 project to build the P-62. In effect, Petrobras intends [...]

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In the benefit of having a wonderful climate, Brazil has the perfect environment to offer for farmers to produce grain in great scale, that’s why many investors and producers from abroad are moving to Brazil.
After 20 years of being behind US in soy export Brazil with honors surpass US becoming the #1 exporter of Soy [...]

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Brazil is repeating the same success with Biodiesel that it had with Ethanol 30 years ago.
All the efforts made now pays off. What many industrialized country has failed Brazil has accomplished this year, it became energy independent.
That means Brazil no longer needs to import energy from other country to supply its necessity. On the other [...]

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