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Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras, said late Friday that it has been able to reverse a court order that had suspended construction at its Comperj refinery project in Rio de Janeiro state.Petrobras said in a statement the decision involves only works currently under way.The Comperj refinery will have installed capacity to process 165,000 barrels of crude oil per day when it enters operation in April 2015, according to the company. A second phase, expected to be completed by 2018, would double capacity.Write to Luciana Magalhaes at luciana.magalhaes@dowjones.comCopyright © 2013 Dow Jones Newswires...
Oil major BP PLC (BP.LN) said Wednesday it and partners Total SA (TOT), Petrobras and Petrogal were yesterday named winning bidders for eight deepwater blocks offsho...
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil ASA (STO) said Wednesday it was the highest bidder on 6 licenses in Brazil.MAIN FACTS:-With the new licenses, Statoil has strengt...
Brazil saw record bidding at its first oil auction in five years Tuesday as the growing promise of oil finds along the equator attracted huge interest in exploration...
BG Brasil, the local unit of BG Group PLC (BG.LN), won 10 of the 12 offshore oil and natural gas exploration blocks the company bid for in a hotly contested auction,...
Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras (PBR, PETR4.BR) is in talks with several groups in Argentina for sale of assets there, but has not finalized any plan...
Argentine businessman Cristobal Lopez has purchased a 51% stake in Petrobras Argentina SA (PZE, PESA.BA), a subsidiary of Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Bra...
Chinese integrated oil company CNOOC Ltd. (CEO) pulled out of an auction of oil and natural gas exploration concessions in Brazil, the country's National Petroleum A...
Moody's Investors Service will likely determine this year whether to downgrade the ratings of Brazil's government-run oil company, Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR3...
Brazilian oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR3.BR, PETR4.BR) sold $11 billion worth of bonds Monday, the biggest emerging-market debt sale on record.The si...
Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR4.BR) on Monday began its enormous 2013 financing campaign with one of the largest bond issues this...
Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR4.BR) on Monday began its enormous 2013 financing campaign with one of the largest bond issues this...
Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA (PBR, PETR4.BR) on Monday began its enormous 2013 financing campaign with one of the largest bond issues this...
The Brazilian real was flat relative to the U.S. dollar Thursday afternoon, ending a day of very low volatility.The real exited active trading at BRL2.0251 to the do...
Brazilian stocks were slightly lower Thursday morning amid weak U.S. data and a streak of disappointing earnings reported by some local companies.Around 9:14 a.m. ED...
A broad collapse of company profits in the developing world shows no sign of abating, forcing investors to tilt portfolios towards sectors such as healthcare or cons...
Brazilian meatpacker BRF SA (BRFS, BRFS3.BR) raised $750 million from two overseas bond issues to refinance existing debt, deals that showed international investor a...
Brazilian environmental regulators will join state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR) in appealing an injunction that halted work on a major refine...
Brazil's state-run Banco do Brasil (BDORY, BBAS3.BR), Latin America's biggest bank by assets, is likely to tap overseas capital markets with a bond issue later this ...
Brazilian state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR, PETR4.BR), or Petrobras, said late Tuesday that it had been notified of a court order suspending environme...