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Insight: Delays, clashes hinder attempts to salvage Batista’s OGX

August 24, 2021 at 9:53 p.m.

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Attempts to save Eike Batista's flagship oil company, the business most responsible for the meltdown of his once high-flying industrial empire, have been...

Brazil’s oil regulator says 2014 concession auction unlikely

August 24, 2021 at 9:29 p.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The head of Brazil's oil regulator said on Thursday that her agency is unlikely to recommend an auction of oil exploration concessions in 2014, raising...

Brazil judge dismisses case against Chevron, Transocean

August 24, 2021 at 8:57 p.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron Corp after approving a negotiated settlement, a decision that...

Brazil oil sale draws weak interest; Exxon, BP, BG pass

August 24, 2021 at 8:28 p.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil's planned auction of its biggest-ever oil discovery attracted only a quarter of the interest expected by the government after many of the large, wealthy...

Insight: Ecological risks may spell trouble for Batista’s Brazil port

August 24, 2021 at 6:03 p.m.

S ?O JO ?O DA BARRA, Brazil (Reuters) - As Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista breaks up his crumbling EBX Group industrial empire to pay off debt, one of the few...

Analysis: How debt woes brought Batista’s Brazil empire to the brink

August 24, 2021 at 5:18 p.m.

SAO JO ?O DA BARRA, Brazil (Reuters) - As Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista's EBX industrial empire crumbles, it increasingly resembles his most visible accomplishment, the Port of A u. In...

EBX companies surge after BTG Pactual tosses lifeline

August 24, 2021 at 5:34 a.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The shares of companies controlled by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista's Grupo EBX soared on Thursday after high-flying investment bank BTG Pactual Group tossed the group...

Chevron, Transocean say Brazil drops criminal oil spill charges

August 24, 2021 at 4:37 a.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against Chevron Corp, Transocean Ltd and 17 of their employees related to a November 2011 offshore oil spill, the...

Chevron nears settlement in Brazil spill case

August 24, 2021 at 12:25 a.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is willing to pay about 300 million reais ($144 million) to settle lawsuits in Brazil over an oil spill last year, a senior...

Chevron nears settlement in Brazil spill case

December 25, 2018 at 3:52 p.m.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is willing to pay about 300 million reais ($144 million) to settle lawsuits in Brazil over an oil spill last year, a senior...

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