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Petrobras sponsored the Brazilian Série A from 2009 to 2012. [80] Petrobras was a secondary sponsor for the AT&T Williams F1 Team from 1998 to 2008 and signed again with Williams F1 from 2014 onwards. [81] From 2018, Petrobras left Williams and sponsored McLaren, but cancelled their sponsorship at the end of 2019.
Alberto Youssef (born 6 October 1967) is a Brazilian black-market banker. He has been implicated in several of Brazil's largest scandals during the past generation. [1] He was a figure in the Banestado scandal, and later was a major target of Operation Car Wash, the official investigation of corruption surrounding Petrobras, the government-controlled oil company.
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 ]
Brazil is the world’s seventh-largest oil producer, with about 4.3 million barrels daily, or 4% of the world´s output, according to Energy Information Administration, a US government agency.
Brazilian lawmakers have set up a congressional caucus to represent Brazil's oil and gas industry, led by state-run producer Petrobras, and to back the company's plans to explore offshore fields ...
Petrobras shares plunged 22% on Monday, wiping out 71 billion reais ($13 billion) in market value, as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro again slammed its pricing policies after he replaced the ...
Vibra Energia (formerly Petrobras Distribuidora or BR) is the largest distributor and marketer of petroleum derivatives and biofuels of Brazil and Latin America. It was a subsidiary of Petrobras until 2021 but now it is a corporation. The company has more than 8,000 gas stations in Brazil.
On 19 June 2015, Brazilian authorities arrested the former CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht, in connection with their ongoing probe into bribes paid to the Brazilian oil giant, Petrobras. [6] On 7 March 2016, he was sentenced to 19 years and 4 months jail, for paying over US$30 million in bribes to executives of Petrobras, in exchange for contracts and ...