Ibama estimated that 2, 300 barrels of oil oozed out of the sea bed because of the Nov. 9 drilling accident.

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Thirty-seven percent of the Gulf is closed to fishing because of an accident involving a deepwater drilling operation.

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He added that there were other significant claims still to be settled, including offshore oil and gas industry damages as a result of the moratorium on deepwater drilling put in place after the accident, casino losses, fisheries, financial institutions and real estate developers.

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While deepsea drilling came under scrutiny after BP's tragic Macondo well accident this summer, Petrobras executives have expressed confidence about the prospects of the industry, especially off the coast of Brazil.

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