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Petrobras to Double Oil Output by 2015

August 3, 2011 by John Daly
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Perhaps the biggest foreign-policy story of the past decade, thoroughly overlooked by the American media after 9/11 and its subsequent monomaniacal focus on terrorism, security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is the fact that Latin America has essentially moved away from Washington's influence.This quiet revolution from below, in... [read more]

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Brazil: Energy superpower

July 30, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Brazil is poised to become an energy superpower and the world's 5th biggest economy, says its energy minister, Marcio Zimmerman [read more]

Brazil Announces Large Offshore Oil Find

May 14, 2010 by Big Gav
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The Latin American Herald Tribune has an article on Brazil's latest deepwater offshore oil find - Brazil Announces Large Offshore Oil Find. I wonder if Petrobras will manage to avoid covering the Atlantic with oil as they develop all these prospects? Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, announced the discovery of about 4.5... [read more]

Peak oil never sleeps

February 4, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Even while so many of us are wringing our hands over the Copenhagen Collapse, the dwindling chances of getting anything even remotely resembling the action we need from China, India, or the US on CO2 emissions, and all the other flavors of angst currently suffusing climate chaos land, we’re still using roughly 85 million barrels of oil... [read more]

Sugar electricity in Brazil

January 19, 2010 by Doris de Guzman
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General Electric and Brazilian petrochemical company Petrobras announced sugarcane-based ethanol is now, for the first time, being used in a gas turbine system to produce electricity at the Juiz de Fora Power Plant in Minas Gerais state. The natural gas plant has a capacity of 87 megawatts and uses two GE LM6000 gas turbines, one whose... [read more]

Ethanol-Pipelines Soon to Come?

February 20, 2008 by KonradImielinski
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A significant problem with ethanol is that it corrodes current pipelines due to its solubility in water. This makes it difficult to transport the fuel long distances as this is a hurdle the industry desperately needs to overcome. Good news, though, is that Magellan Midstream Partners - a company that pipes gasoline - is planning on... [read more]