{"id":2873,"date":"2011-11-08T03:13:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2011-11-08T03:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:13:17","slug":"pre-salt-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/pre-salt-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Salt Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petrobras, Brazil&#8217;s state-run petroleum company, created a cool project combining two very different things: Formula 1 racing and offshore drilling. A few years ago, Petrobras discovered vast reserves of oil below what&#8217;s called a pre-salt layer (<em>pre-sal<\/em>, in Portuguese) in the ocean off the coast of Brazil. The reserves could make Brazil a major oil power once the oil can be exploited on a large scale.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Petrobras came up with a cool idea: they decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/petrobras.com.br\/trofeu\" target=\"_blank\">make the trophies<\/a> for this month&#8217;s Brazil Grand Prix out of the pre-salt rock found 5,000 meters deep in the ocean. The trophies will be on display in S\u00e3o Paulo, Bras\u00edlia, and Rio de Janeiro in November. Petrobras is calling them the &#8220;most valuable trophies in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This video below explains the project. Watch and see if you can answer the questions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Do Fundo do Mar ao Topo do P\u00f3dio\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pza65pBnXxM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. What does the artist think about the project?<\/p>\n<p>2. What does the artist mean when he says &#8220;quando fiquei sabendo?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. What are some of the child-related words the geologist uses to describe the rock?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. He says it&#8217;s the biggest challenge of his career<\/p>\n<p>2. When I found out<\/p>\n<p>3. Bonitinha (pretty, cute); mocinha (little girl)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrobras, Brazil&#8217;s state-run petroleum company, created a cool project combining two very different things: Formula 1 racing and offshore drilling. A few years ago, Petrobras discovered vast reserves of oil below what&#8217;s called a pre-salt layer (pre-sal, in Portuguese) in the ocean off the coast of Brazil. The reserves could make Brazil a major oil&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/pre-salt-trophy\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[2383],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-petrobras"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}