{"id":413301,"date":"2010-03-10T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bp-set-to-make-big-5-billion-bet-on-brazil-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-10T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T21:18:00","slug":"bp-set-to-make-big-5-billion-bet-on-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413301","title":{"rendered":"BP Set To Make Big $5 Billion Bet On Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4aeafdb3000000000098da1f-322-241\/brazil-link.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"brazil link\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big move from the energy world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704655004575113991655865532.html?mod=djemalertNEWS\">WSJ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">British oil giant BP PLC is the leading candidate to buy a big swath of oil assets from U.S. independent oil and gas producer Devon Energy Corp. in a $5 billion-plus deal that would vault BP into the hot new oil region off the shores of Brazil, people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The deal would also reinforce BP&#8217;s dominant position in the Gulf of Mexico and give it a stake in Devon&#8217;s operations in Canada. 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