company:petroleo brasileiro sa

  • Brazil Car Wash graft probe widens to include U.S., Greek firms
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-idUSKCN1AY137

    Brazilian authorities widened their Car Wash graft probe on Friday to include more international targets, ensnaring U.S. asphalt maker Sargeant Marine, six Greek shipping companies and a former Brazilian congressman.

    These operations leave a clear message: foreign firms will not be spared by Car Wash,” Prosecutor Athayde Ribeiro Costa said in a statement.

    Former lawmaker Candido Vaccarezza, who had been a Workers Party government leader in the lower house, was arrested over allegations he received bribes of nearly $500,000 from Sargeant Marine in exchange for helping it win asphalt supply contracts from state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the statement said.

    Prosecutors have identified hundreds of foreign companies that did business with people under investigation in the massive probe into kickbacks from executives to politicians in return for contracts at state-run enterprises, especially #Petrobras.

    #lava_jato

  • Petrobras Emerges as Buyer of First U.S. Shale Gas Export - gCaptain
    https://gcaptain.com/petrobras-emerges-as-buyer-of-first-u-s-shale-gas-export

    Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil’s state-owned energy company, is scheduled to receive the first cargo of shale gas to be shipped from the U.S., according to a person familiar with the deal.

    The shipment of liquefied natural gas was agreed to on Monday, said the person who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. Cheniere Energy Inc.began loading the first tanker at its Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana, U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Dustin Williams said in an e-mail Tuesday.
    […]
    Demand is forecast to be higher in South America during the spring, in part due to a drought that has increased Brazil’s dependence on the power-plant fuel. Brazil has increased LNG imports in the past few years after an agreement to buy gas via a pipeline from Bolivia reached its limits.