Petrobras revealed that four laptops and two RAM memory drives were stolen from a container owned by oilfield services giant Halliburton in late January.
The incident was discovered by Halliburton employees when the container was in transit between a drillship and a terminal in the offshore hub town of Macae.
Media coverage triggered a heated political debate and suggestions from Presidential Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff that the circumstances pointed to industrial espionage.
The
