by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRPrio — born PetroRio — built Brazil’s leading independent oil company on a contrarian model: buy mature offshore fields the majors abandon, slash costs, drill smart tie-backs and squeeze decades of profitable life from ‘dead’...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRCosan is Rubens Ometto’s infrastructure-energy holding: from a family sugar mill in Piracicaba to controlling stakes in Raizen (bioenergy), Compass (natural gas), Rumo (railways), Moove (lubricants) and farmland platform Radar — capped by an...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DREletrobras is Latin America’s largest electricity company — the state holding created in 1962 that built Brazil’s continental hydro-transmission system, then starred in the country’s boldest privatization: the R$33 billion...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRRaizen is the world’s largest sugarcane processor and ethanol producer — a 50-50 joint venture created in 2011 by Brazil’s Cosan and Shell, combining vast cane mills with Shell-branded fuel stations. It is Brazil’s bet that...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRVibra Energia — the former BR Distribuidora — is Brazil’s largest fuel distributor, supplying roughly a quarter to a third of the country’s fuel through about 8,000 Petrobras-branded stations, aviation fueling at major airports,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRPetrobras is Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant — founded in 1953 under the banner ‘the oil is ours’, transformed by the 2006-07 pre-salt discoveries into a deepwater superpower, nearly destroyed by the Lava Jato corruption...
