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Brazil has long-graced the highest echelons of nations active in ethanol and biodiesel, and an inherent part of its latter day growth story has been Petrobras Biocombustível S.A; a unit founded in mid-2008 by Brazilian multinational energy giant Petrobras.Lead by chief executive officer Miguel Rossetto, Brazil’s former Minister of Agrarian ...
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IMCA to address Macondo-sized learning curves at its Safety & Environment Seminar in Rio de Janeiro, South America
Hugh Williams, chief executive of The International Marine Contractors Association (“IMCA”), talks asset threatening events, IMCA’s imminent safety seminar in Brazil, and fostering international industry-wide “collaboration and consolidation”.The International Marine Contractors Association (“IMCA”) has always assisted members active in South America’s growing offshore, marine and underwater engineering industries, especially since
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Jody Elliott, director of The Resource Channel, shares home truths and practical steps in combating Australia’s much-discussed (yet under-addressed) workforce shortages in construction, resources and beyond.If you haven’t yet heard, Australia needs skilled workers.The project pipeline is staggering with 75 advanced projects either underway or due to start in the ...
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The sustainability tag may be embedded in vague common parlance (irritatingly) in some respects, but it takes more than green grandstanding and sweeping declarations for industrial and mining groups to make it into BM&FBOVESPA’s Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE).Subsequent to founding through a merger between the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) ...
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Tales of discovery from Brazil’s offshore pre-salt (or pré-sal) territories were ten-a-penny in 2011, and considering the 109 oil discoveries made worldwide in the first nine months of the annum (of which 19 were in Brazil and 17 in pre-salt itself) it’s obvious why the play has column inches bursting ...
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President Raul Papaleo talks international partnerships, including renewable energy development
The Brazil Canada Chamber of Commerce works to strengthen international relations and commerce between Canada and Brazil. Maintaining strong relationships with both countries, the Brazil Canada Chamber of Commerce works closely to identify membership, investment and trade opportunities between these two economically powerful nations.Raul Papaleo, President of the Brazil Canada
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International oil and gas industry network The Oil Council will stage its Latin American Assembly on January 25-26 in Bogotá, Colombia. Over 300 industry delegates will attend the meet—Latin America’s only oil and gas conference to focus purely on business—and as headlines continue to draw attention to the great discoveries, ...
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