Petroleum price has reached a lot over $ 100 a barrel.

Never before has Brazil found such a deep-water well oil as large as the one in the southeastern coast.

Brazil will certainly become an international energy powerhouse.

South American continent has plenty of energy available.

Only people in the Brazilian southeastern coast came to know about PETROBRAS’ new discovery.

PETROBRAS took less than a month to find out the full potential of this deep-water field.

PETROBRAS made public the new field contained five to eight billion barrels of crude oil.

PETROBRAS’ new discovery will cause the end of Brazilian diplomatic relations with Venezuela.

Brazil will soon surpass Mexico and Canada in terms of oil reserves.

Brazil could move to the third position in the so called “energy pecking order of the Americas” (l.18) in less than a decade.

Brazil has turned out to be rather aggressive against the use of alternative energy.

suddenly Brazil became an energy power.

Brazil is a lucky country, to the extent that whatever it plants it becomes a success.

Brazil will get a new influence against energy players beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Brazil as well as Venezuela and Bolivia are energy players.

Lula is supposed to follow the approach to oil wealth as that of Mr. Chávez.

Mr. Chávez spoke seriously when he called president Lula an “oil magnate” (l.47).

Mr. Chávez praised the joint effort they had made to create an Amazonian energy region.

Mr. Chávez is taking strong action to try to promote the Caribbean and Andean integration.

Brazil new deep-water oil field will disturb the present position of South America energy producers.