RIO DE JANEIRO: Scanning the maze of pipes and valves sprouting from one of Brazil’s pioneering deep Atlantic oil platforms, Lucas Azevedo doesn’t mince words.

“We’re sitting on a bomb,” says Azevedo, safety officer for Brazilian company Petrobras’s Cidade de Itaguai platform, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.

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