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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...

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Airports 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...

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Brazil 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...

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Brazil 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...

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Petrobras 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...

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64 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)...

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Brazil 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,...

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Brazil 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...

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Brazil 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...

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Brazilian 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...

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Brazil 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...

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Brazil 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...

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Brazil’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...

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Brazil 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...

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Petrobras 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...

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Brazil’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...

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Brazil’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...

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Brazil 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)...

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Brazil’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...

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Brazil’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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