Oil platform, Rio de Janeiro. Photo source : ©© Gattobrz
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A judge barred 17 Chevron executives from around the world from leaving Brazil in an oil spill investigation as prosecutors readied new charges over a second spill involving the US energy giant.
Last November, Chevron was blamed for a major spill in the Frade Field area off Rio de Janeiro state, with Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP) calculating that some 3,000 barrels of crude were spilled…