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...When the Portuguese abstract expressionist painter Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s Kukas ring no longer fitted her, she displayed the striking piece at home, framing it in a Perspex box like a much-loved...
...To add to the complexity, the government is setting up Pré-Sal Petróleo, a state company that will directly represent federal interests in the pre-salt fields....
...A recent trip to Silicon Valley, where he met up with several entrepreneurs in the sector, including Coursera’s Daphne Koller, Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun and Sal Khan of Khan Academy, tipped him over the...
...Speaking to the Folha de S.Paulo, Valdir Pignatta da Silva, a fire safety specialist at the University of São Paulo, said this was a cultural issue....
...Legislation before Congress would create a new state-owned company, known as Petro-Sal, to oversee exploration of the pre-salt fields and make Petrobras the sole operator....
...In the first instance current plans provide a new state-owned company, Pré-Sal Petróleo, with veto powers over all operating decisions....
...DR: But we don’t have any money at all in Petro-Sal. We don’t want to transform Petro-Sal into an operating company....
...Under the government’s plan, a new oil company, Petro-Sal, 100 per cent government-owned, will oversee PSAs....
...A new 100 per cent government-owned company, Petro-Sal, would have control of every consortium and a veto over all operational matters, including rates of production and acquisitions....
...While Cape Verde has today been catapulted into mass tourism, almost all the growth is concentrated in two islands, Sal and Boa Vista....
...The new company would manage the apparently vast new discoveries of oil in pre-sal (pre-salt) fields off Brazil’s coast. Few would question that the pre-sal fields require new rules....
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