bartvde schreef op 10 maart 2014 10:36:
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www.iex.nl/Column/116787/Aandelenrond...economia.estadao.com.br/noticias/nego...,apos-denuncia-sbm-desiste-de-nova-licitacao-da-petrobras,179152,0.htm
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RIO - The Dutch SBM Offshore suspended participation in the bidding for Petrobras to charter a floating fields of Green Turtle and Tortoise Mixed Race in the Campos Basin platform , according to industry sources . The move was a first effect of internal investigations conducted by Petrobras into allegations of bribe-taking by officials of the State to do business with SBM .
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A contract of the genre does not usually cost less than U.S. $ 1 billion and could reach nearly $ 2 billion , depending on the specifications . The platform is the next in line for signings Petrobras , with capacity to produce up to 150 thousand barrels per day and forecast to come on stream in 2017 . The term charter has been open for 20 years, with possibility of extension for another 20 .
SBM had made market quotations for participating in the dispute together with Queiroz Galvão , with whom the Dutch had other partnerships in the chartering of rigs for Petrobras . The oil company last month opened an internal investigation , with 30 days to investigate the allegations made ??in Europe by a former employee of SBM .
According to the complaints , contracts were closed to the middle of the sales representative in Brazil SBM Julio Faerman and companies linked to the entrepreneur . He would charge 3 % to close the business , getting 1 % and 2 % passing the company's employees .
SBM has published an annual report in 2012 he was " aware of certain practices involving third parties that may have been improper ." Faerman was removed from the representation of the company, a position he held for more than a decade . " The company has also taken the necessary steps to end such practices ," he said in a report to shareholders in 2012 .