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88 relations: Amazonas (Brazilian state), Angra dos Reis, Angra Nuclear Power Plant, Argentina, Biodiesel, Bolivia, Brazil, Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency, Brazilian military government, Campos Basin, Chevron Corporation, China, Efficient energy use, Electricity generation, Eletrobras, Eletronuclear, Energy, Energy market, Energy subsidies, ENGIE Brasil, Espírito Santo, Ethanol fuel, Export, Fossil fuel, GASBOL, GASENE, GASUN, Gran Gasoducto del Sur, Heavy crude oil, Hydroelectricity, Import, International Energy Agency, Itaipu Dam, Itatiaia, Lagoa Real, Latin America, Light crude oil, Liquefied natural gas, Lula oil field, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Middle East, Minas Gerais, Ministry of Mines and Energy (Brazil), Monopoly, Munduruku, National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (Brazil), National Council for Energy Policy, Natural gas, OECD, ..., Oil megaprojects (2010), Oil refinery, Oil Shale (journal), Paraíba Valley, Paraguay, Paraná (state), Paraná River, Paraná, Entre Ríos, Paraná–Uruguaiana pipeline, Pará, Peat, Petrobras, Petroleum, Petrosix, Photovoltaics, Poços de Caldas, Power station, Pressurized water reactor, Price controls, Renewable energy, Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina (state), São Mateus do Sul, Shale oil, Sinopec, South America, Steel, Sub-bituminous coal, Sugarcane, Tapajós, Transpetro, Urucu–Manaus pipeline, Uruguaiana, Venezuela, Watt, World Energy Outlook, 1973 oil crisis. Expand index (38 more) »
Amazonas (Brazilian state)
Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country.
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Angra dos Reis
Angra dos Reis (Portuguese for Creek of the Kings) is a Brazilian municipality located in the southern part of Rio de Janeiro state.
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Angra Nuclear Power Plant
Angra Nuclear Power Plant is Brazil's only nuclear power plant.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Biodiesel
Biodiesel refers to a vegetable oil- or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of long-chain alkyl (methyl, ethyl, or propyl) esters.
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Bolivia
Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency
The Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (in Portuguese, Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica, ANEEL) is an autarchy of the government of Brazil linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy.
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Brazilian military government
The Brazilian military government was the authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from April 1, 1964 to March 15, 1985.
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Campos Basin
Campos Basin is one of 12 coastal sedimentary basins of Brazil.
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
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Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Eletrobras
Eletrobras (full name: Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A.) is a major Brazilian electric utilities company.
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Eletronuclear
Eletronuclear (Eletrobrás Termonuclear S/A) is a nuclear power company established in 1997 in Brazil.
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Energy
In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.
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Energy market
Energy markets are commodity markets that deal specifically with the trade and supply of energy.
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Energy subsidies
Energy subsidies are measures that keep prices for consumers below market levels or for producers above market levels, or reduce costs for consumers and producers.
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ENGIE Brasil
ENGIE Brasil formerly Tractebel Energia is a major Brazilian utility company, headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina.
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Espírito Santo
Espírito Santo (meaning "Holy Spirit") is a state in southeastern Brazil.
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Ethanol fuel
Ethanol fuel is ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, used as fuel.
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Export
The term export means sending of goods or services produced in one country to another country.
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Fossil fuel
A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing energy originating in ancient photosynthesis.
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GASBOL
The Bolivia–Brazil pipeline (GASBOL) is the longest natural gas pipeline in South America.
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GASENE
The Southeast Northeast Interconnection Gas Pipeline (GASENE) is a natural gas pipeline system in Brazil, which connects south-eastern gas system to the north-eastern gas system.
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GASUN
The National Unification Gas Pipeline (Gas Unificação – GASUN) will be a natural gas pipeline in Brazil.
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Gran Gasoducto del Sur
Gran Gasoducto del Sur (also known as Venezuela-Argentina Gas Line) was a proposed 8,000-15,000-kilometer (5,000-9,000 mi) long natural gas pipeline to connect Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina.
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Heavy crude oil
Heavy crude oil (or extra heavy crude oil) is highly-viscous oil that cannot easily flow to production wells under normal reservoir conditions.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.
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Import
An import is a good brought into a jurisdiction, especially across a national border, from an external source.
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International Energy Agency
The International Energy Agency (IEA) (Agence internationale de l'énergie) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organization established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis.
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Itaipu Dam
The Itaipu Dam (Barragem de Itaipu, Represa de Itaipú) is a hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
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Itatiaia
Itatiaia is a Brazilian municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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Lagoa Real
Lagoa Real is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Light crude oil
Light crude oil is liquid petroleum that has a low density and flows freely at room temperature.
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Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane C2H6) that has been converted to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.
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Lula oil field
The Lula oil field (formerly Tupi oil field) is a large oil field located in the Santos Basin, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Maranhão
Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil.
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Mato Grosso do Sul
Mato Grosso do Sul is one of the Midwestern states of Brazil.
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Middle East
The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).
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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.
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Ministry of Mines and Energy (Brazil)
The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) is a Brazilian government ministry established in 1960.
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Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos and πωλεῖν pōleîn) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.
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Munduruku
The Munduruku, also known as Mundurucu or Wuy Jugu, are an indigenous people of Brazil living in the Amazon River basin.
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National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (Brazil)
The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis - ANP) is the federal government agency linked to the Ministry of Mines and Energy responsible for the regulation of the oil sector.
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National Council for Energy Policy
The Brazilian National Council of Energy Policy (CNPE, Conselho Nacional de Política Energética) was created by the law no.
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Natural gas
Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.
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OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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Oil megaprojects (2010)
Following is a list of Oil megaprojects in the year 2010, projects that propose to bring more than of new liquid fuel capacity to market with the first production of fuel.
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Oil refinery
Oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is transformed and refined into more useful products such as petroleum naphtha, gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, jet fuel and fuel oils.
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Oil Shale (journal)
Oil Shale is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in petrology, especially concerning oil shale.
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Paraíba Valley
The Paraíba Valley (Vale do Paraíba) is a region in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo and the western part of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Paraguay
Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
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Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country, bordered on the north by São Paulo state, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Santa Catarina state and the province of Misiones, Argentina, and on the west by Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraguay, with the Paraná River as its western boundary line.
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Paraná River
The Paraná River (Río Paraná, Rio Paraná, Ysyry Parana) is a river in south Central South America, running through Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina for some.
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Paraná, Entre Ríos
Paraná is the capital city of the Argentine province Entre Ríos, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, opposite the city of Santa Fe, capital of the neighbouring Santa Fe Province.
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Paraná–Uruguaiana pipeline
Paraná-Uruguayana pipeline (also: Transportadora de Gas del Mercosur) is a natural gas pipeline from Aldea Brasilera, Paraná in Argentina to Uruguaiana in Brazil.
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Pará
Pará is a state in northern Brazil traversed by the lower Amazon River.
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Peat
Peat, also called turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.
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Petrobras
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. — Petrobras, more commonly known as simply Petrobras, is a semi-public Brazilian multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Petrosix
Petrosix is the world’s largest surface oil shale pyrolysis retort with an diameter vertical shaft kiln, operational since 1992.
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Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics (PV) is a term which covers the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.
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Poços de Caldas
Poços de Caldas is a municipality in southwestern Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name.
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant or powerhouse and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Pressurized water reactor
Pressurized water reactors (PWRs) constitute the large majority of the world's nuclear power plants (notable exceptions being the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada) and are one of three types of light water reactor (LWR), the other types being boiling water reactors (BWRs) and supercritical water reactors (SCWRs).
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Price controls
Price controls are governmental restrictions on the prices that can be charged for goods and services in a market.
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Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.
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Rio de Janeiro (state)
Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.
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Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (lit. Great Southern River) is a state located in the southern region of Brazil.
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Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina (Saint Catherine) is a state in the southern region of Brazil.
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São Mateus do Sul
São Mateus do Sul (St. Matthew of the South) is a municipality of the Brazilian state of Paraná, located in the southern region of the country.
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Shale oil
Shale oil is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale rock fragments by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution.
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Sinopec
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (中国石油化工股份有限公司), or Sinopec, is a Chinese oil and gas enterprise based in Beijing, China. It is listed in Hong Kong and also trades in Shanghai and New York. Sinopec Limited's parent, Sinopec Group, is the world's largest oil refining, gas and petrochemical conglomerate, headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Sinopec's business includes oil and gas exploration, refining, and marketing; production and sales of petrochemicals, chemical fibers, chemical fertilizers, and other chemical products; storage and pipeline transportation of crude oil and natural gas; import, export and import/export agency business of crude oil, natural gas, refined oil products, petrochemicals, and other chemicals.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Sub-bituminous coal
Sub-bituminous coal is a type of coal whose properties range from those of lignite to those of bituminous coal and are used primarily as fuel for steam-electric power generation.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.
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Tapajós
The Tapajós (Rio Tapajós) is a river in Brazil.
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Transpetro
Petrobras Transporte S.A. (Transpetro) is the largest oil and gas transportation company of Brazil.
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Urucu–Manaus pipeline
The Urucu–Manaus pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Brazil.
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Uruguaiana
Uruguaiana is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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World Energy Outlook
The annual World Energy Outlook is the International Energy Agency's flagship publication, widely recognised as the most authoritative source for global energy projections and analysis.
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1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Brazil
