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• UPDATE 1-Brazil's tarnished oil industry polishes image with rights sale Wednesday, 15 May 2013 | 2:03 PM ET

  *BG Group, OGX, Total, BP among winners at Brazil auction. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 15- For the first time in nearly five years, Brazil's flagging oil industry has received serious interest from private investors.

• Brazil's tarnished oil industry polishes image with rights sale Wednesday, 15 May 2013 | 2:26 AM ET

  *BG Group, OGX, Total, BP among big winners at Brazil auction. RIO DE JANEIRO, May 15- For the first time in nearly five years, Brazil's flagging oil industry has received a jolt of serious interest from private investors.

• UPDATE 4-Brazil lures record bids at 1st oil, gas auction in 5 years Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | 4:44 PM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14- Brazil's first auction for oil and gas rights in five years attracted a record amount of money on Tuesday, alleviating fears that government intervention and growth in new global supplies might dampen enthusiasm for the country's oil sector.

• UPDATE 3-Brazil gets strong bids at 1st oil, gas auction in 5 yrs Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | 2:45 PM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14- Global energy companies were strong bidders on Tuesday at Brazil's first auction for oil and natural gas rights in five years, alleviating fears that government intervention and growth in new global supplies might crimp enthusiasm for the South American country's oil sector.

• UPDATE 2-Brazil gets strong bids at first oil, gas auction in five years Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | 11:54 AM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14- Global energy companies showed strong interest early on Tuesday at Brazil's first auction for oil and natural gas rights in five years, alleviating fears that government intervention and growth in new global supplies might crimp enthusiasm over the South American country's oil sector.

• UPDATE 1-Brazil kicks off first oil, gas auction in five years Tuesday, 14 May 2013 | 10:14 AM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14- Brazil on Tuesday kicked off its first auction for oil and natural gas rights in five years, gauging whether government intervention and growth in new global supplies have crimped the interest that followed discoveries of huge offshore reserves in 2007..

• UPDATE 1-Petrobras raises $11 bln in largest Latin America bond sale Monday, 13 May 2013 | 6:05 PM ET

  *Petrobras sells bond in six parts, demand tops $50 billion. RIO DE JANEIRO/ SAO PAULO, May 13- Brazil's state-controlled oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA sold $11 billion of global debt on Monday in the largest-ever bond offering by a Latin American company.

• Final Trade: Your First Move for Wednesday, May 1 Tuesday, 30 Apr 2013 | 6:09 PM ET

  

  The "Fast Money" traders share their final trades of the day.

• Final Trade: Your First Move for Tuesday, April 30 Monday, 29 Apr 2013 | 1:51 PM ET

  

  The "Fast Money" traders share their final trades of the day.

• UPDATE 1-Brazil to offer up to 40 bln barrels/oil at auction -ANP Monday, 15 Apr 2013 | 3:41 PM ET

  *ANP recommends selling subsalt rights every two years. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 15- Brazil plans to offer as much as 40 billion barrels of oil in place in its first auction of subsalt production-sharing contracts in November, the country's oil regulator told reporters in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.

• UPDATE 2-Brazil says Chevron can restart offshore oil output Monday, 8 Apr 2013 | 8:14 PM ET

  *Restart authorized about a year after field shutdown. RIO DE JANEIRO, April 8- Brazil's oil regulator, the ANP, said on Monday that it authorized Chevron Corp to restart output from an offshore oil field more than a year after a November 2011 spill forced the No. 2 U.S. oil company to stop Brazilian production.

• EXCLUSIVE-Petrobras said to auction $5 bln of Nigeria oil assets Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 9:00 AM ET

  HONG KONG/ ABUJA, March 27- Brazilian oil company Petrobras is to auction off its stakes in Nigerian oil fields to raise cash for domestic projects, a deal that may fetch up to $5 billion, sources close to the deal said.

• EXCLUSIVE-Petrobras said to launch $5 bln Nigerian oil block sale Wednesday, 27 Mar 2013 | 6:45 AM ET

  HONG KONG/ ABUJA, March 27- Brazil's state oil company Petrobras has launched an auction to sell its interest in Nigerian oil fields, in a sale that may fetch up to $5 billion, as the company seeks to raise cash and embarks on a capital spending plan, people close to the matter told Reuters.

• EBX Group needs partners; Batista stake could fall, Esteves says Sunday, 24 Mar 2013 | 12:49 AM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, March 24- Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista needs partners to help fund the expansion of his EBX Group, a situation that could lead him to cut his stake in EBX companies by more than half, fellow billionaire Andre Esteves told the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper.

• UPDATE 1-Brazil oil states ratchet up protests over royalty cuts Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 7:49 PM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, March 8- Brazilian oil-producing states retaliated on Friday against multibillion-dollar cuts made by Congress to their oil royalties with a wave of protests and threats to cut off most of the country's oil output.

• Brazil oil states ratchet up protests, threats over royalty cuts Friday, 8 Mar 2013 | 1:43 PM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, March 8- Brazilian oil-producing states retaliated on Friday against multi-billion-dollar cuts made by Congress to their oil royalties with a wave of protests and threats to cut off most of the country's oil output.

• UPDATE 1-Petrobras to raise wholesale diesel fuel price by 5 pct Tuesday, 5 Mar 2013 | 7:33 PM ET

  *Diesel was 14 pct below world price before hike- JPMorgan. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 5- Brazil's state-led oil company Petrobras said on Tuesday that it would raise the wholesale price of diesel fuel 5 percent effective at midnight in an action aimed at cutting losses from selling fuel at prices below world-market levels.

• UPDATE 2-Chevron, Transocean say Brazil drops criminal oil spill charges Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 | 3:30 PM ET

  *Case has helped chill interest in Brazil's oil frontier. RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 20- 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 companies said on Wednesday.

• Brazil judge drops criminal charges vs Chevron, Transocean -sources Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013 | 1:44 PM ET

  RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 20- A Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against Chevron Corp, Transocean Ltd and 17 employees resulting from a 2011 offshore oil spill, three sources with direct knowledge of the case told Reuters on Wednesday.

• Oil Rises, Following US Equities Higher Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013 | 3:53 PM ET

  

  Oil prices rose as traders grew bullish amid a rally in U.S. stock markets, even as U.S. pipeline bottlenecks and European economic concerns threatened to weigh on oil markets.