Word: petrobr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vila SocÓ was an accident waiting to happen. Part of the favela had been built illegally on private land near a gasoline pipeline owned by the state oil monopoly, Petrobrás. The day before the fire, Petrobrás had ordered the wrong pipeline to be opened, causing a leak in the pipeline that ran next to Vila SocÓ. Investigators contend that Petrobrás failed to monitor a pressure buildup on the line and stop the leak. At the time of the explosion, shortly after midnight, gasoline had spread throughout many ditches of the shantytown, creating...