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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and trading as the portmanteau Petrobras (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˌpɛtɾoˈbɾas, pet-]), is a state-owned Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The company's name translates to Brazilian Petroleum Corporation — Petrobras.
Country: Brazil: Region: Latin America: Location/block: BM S 11: Offshore/onshore: Offshore: Coordinates: 1]: Operator: Petrobras: Partners: BG Group, Galp Energia: Field history; Discovery: 2006: Production; Current production of oil: 922,000 barrels per day (~4.59 × 10 ^ 7 t/a): Year of current production of oil: 2021: Recoverable oil: 7,500 million barrels (~10.0 × 10 ^ 8 t): Producing ...
This is a list of presidents of the Brazilian petroleum company Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras). [1] Presidents of the company are appointed by the Federal Government, represented by the President of Brazil. The Federal Government is the main shareholder and the name of the president must be approved by the common shareholders assembly ...
Petrobras 36 (P-36) was a floating semi-submersible oil platform. Prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001, it was the largest in the world. [ 3 ] It was owned by Petrobras , a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro . [ 4 ]
The vast majority of proven reserves were located in the Campos and Santos offshore basins off the southeast coast of Brazil. [16] In November 2007, Petrobras announced that it believed the offshore Tupi oil field had between 5 and 8 billion barrels (1.3 × 10 9 m 3) of recoverable light oil and neighbouring fields may even contain more, which ...
Brazil's Petrobras has given the company's board a formal supervisory role over fuel pricing decisions, it said on Wednesday, a sensitive matter given that fuel prices have become a major election ...
The Brazilian state removes Petrobras' (PBR) chief executive officer, Joaquim Silva e Luna, from his post following a political outrage over the hike in fuel prices in the country.
Despite the logistical difficulty in the Amazon, the cost of extracting oil and natural gas from Urucu is among the lowest in Brazil. According to Petrobras, the oil province is profitable and important for the development of the local economy. [6] Urucu has a set of pipelines that allow the production to flow.