BRASÍLIA: Brazilian President Michel Temer signed into law Tuesday a major shift that will allow foreign oil companies to operate in the country’s massive deep water offshore oil fields.

The law ends the requirement for troubled state oil company Petrobras to be the sole operator in the pre-salt oil fields.

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