Belo Monte Dam Bid Won
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – Despite fierce national and international opposition mounted over several decades and a week of last-ditch legal wrangling, the contract...
View ArticleAirports Privatized for R$24.5B in Brazil
By Sarah de Sainte Croix, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government’s civil aviation agency (ANAC) received R$24.5 billion last Wednesday following the auction of...
View ArticleBrazil to Auction New Oil Concessions
By Andrew Willis, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government has announced that it will restart oil exploration rights auctions in 2013, ending a five-year hiatus that has...
View ArticleBrazil to Auction 172 Oil Blocks in May
By Andrew Willis, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil is set to auction off 172 oil exploration blocks this May, according to a government announcement last week. The auction...
View ArticlePetrobras Wants Local Content Changes
By Leo Byrne, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s majority state owned oil giant Petrobras last week officially requested that regulators relax strict requirements on “local...
View Article64 Firms to Bid on Brazil Oil Blocks
By Maria Lopez Conde, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Sixty-four out of the 71 national and international companies that filed requests with the Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP)...
View ArticleBrazil Auctions Rights to Hydroelectric Plants
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The government of Brazil announced that the concession to operate all 29 hydroelectric plants put on auction on Wednesday were purchased,...
View ArticleBrazil to Raise R$3 Billion with Airport Concessions this Week
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The federal government of Brazil expects to raise at least R$3 billion in revenues this week by auctioning off concessions for the...
View ArticleBrazil Cuts Rates For Renewable Energy Projects in Amazon
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The Development Bank (BNDES) of Brazil approved on Tuesday special financing conditions for those wanting to implement renewable energy...
View ArticleBrazilian Airports Raise R$3.72 Billion for Government in Auction
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Three European companies won concession bids for the administration of four Brazilian airports on Thursday, raising more than R$3.72...
View ArticleBrazil to Obtain R$12.7 Billion in Investments in Energy Auction
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The National Electric Energy Agency in Brazil, ANEEL, held an energy auction today where 31 of the 35 lots made available for the...
View ArticleBrazil Announces Massive R$44 Billion Privatization Plan
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – To increase its revenues and boost the economy, Brazil’s federal government announced on Wednesday a plan to privatize 57 federal...
View ArticleBrazil’s ANEEL Auctions CEMIG Energy Plants for R$12.1 Billion
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – After heated disputes between Brazil’s federal government and the government of the state of Minas Gerais, the National Electric Energy...
View ArticleBrazil Attracts ExxonMobile into Investing in Oil Fields
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The government of Brazil is hailing last week’s oil field exploration auction as a sign that foreign and Brazilian investors alike are...
View ArticlePetrobras and Shell Lead Way in Brazil’s Pre-Salt Auction
By Nelson Belen, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Representatives from the oil industry’s heavyweights were in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, October 27th, as Brazil held its much-anticipated...
View ArticleBrazil’s Pre-Salt Responsible For Over Half of Oil Production
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – As Brazilian officials celebrated extremely positive pre-salt production, President Michel Temer signed on Wednesday concession contracts...
View ArticleBrazil’s ANP to Auction 158 Oil Blocks in Permanent-Offers
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – At least 158 petroleum exploration blocks have been approved by environmental agencies to be auctioned off later on this year in the...
View ArticleBrazil to Auction 20 Energy Transmission Lines in 16 States
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – ANEEL (Electric Energy Regulator) in Brazil will conduct the first energy transmission auction of the year on Thursday (June 28th)...
View ArticleBrazil’s Privatization of Twelve Airports Seeks to Obtain R$2.1 Billion
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil’s government will auction off twelve airports on Friday which receive annually almost twenty million passengers, and hope to...
View ArticleBrazil’s North-South Rail Auctioned For R$2.7 Billion
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Designed to be the backbone of Brazil’s rail transportation, the North-South Railroad was auctioned off this week, for R$2.719...
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