Brazil to auction off largest-ever oil find

General Sources - Friday 24th May, 2013

BRAZIL plans to sell the right to explore and develop its largest-ever oil discovery in October, auctioning an offshore petroleum prospect that is expected to produce about 12 billion barrels of oil over 35 years. The sale of the Libra prospect, which Brazil on Thursday said would be held a month earlier than expected, will be the first under new "production-sharing" rules that tighten ...

Brazil patient dies in ambulance fall

The Courier Mail - Friday 24th May, 2013

AN elderly Brazilian man suffering from Alzheimer's disease has fallen from an ambulance and died. Joao Pinheiro health department head Graciele Gomes da Silva says 82-year-old Luis Jose Lima apparently opened the ambulance's back door, fell to the highway and was hit by an oncoming car that left the scene. Silva says only after the ambulance continued for 10 kilometres did the driver ...

Planemaker Embraer Sees American Closing Out US Regional Jet Cycle

VOA - Friday 24th May, 2013

SAO PAULO -- Embraer SA, the world's third-largest commercial jet maker, expects just one more big regional jet order as a result of its current U.S. sales campaign, Chief Executive Officer Frederico Curado said in an interview, after the Brazilian planemaker clinched three of four major deals since December. "After the American Airlines competition, the game is over for a ...