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By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas on November 24th, 2011
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Ildo Luis Sauer spent five years as the Director of Gas and Energy for Brazilian energy giant Petrobras. He left the company in 2007, and now is the director of the postgraduate programme in energy at the University of Sao Paulo’s Institute of Energy.  Sauer travels the world giving lectures on energy policy, and remains one of Brazil’s top independent consultants on the matter.

With Chevron coming under increased scrutiny for the oil spill off the coast of Brazil more than two weeks ago, Sauer sat down with Al Jazeera to discuss the whole matter. 

By Gabriel Elizondo in Business on November 19th, 2009

What do Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Google all have in common?

Answer: All three companies had lower profits in the third quarter of 2009 than Petrobras and Vale.

Petrobras is Brazil’s massive energy company; you might have heard of it. But unless you live in Brazil or track big companies, you likely have never heard of Vale – the Brazilian mining company.

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But both companies quietly are shoveling in huge profits. A representation of sort of Brazil’s quick exit from the global economic meltdown.