Brazil has more than doubled the number of risky ship-to-ship oil transfers this year, but its monitoring of such offshore maneuvers is lax, to a point where a July 2017 collision between two tankers was not reported, according to a Reuters review of government and shipping records. Transfers are projected to keep rising as the country’s deep-water discoveries have lured major companies including Exxon Mobil Corp ( XOM.N ) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc ( RDSa.AS ) to recent offshore auctions. During these maneuvers, ships pull alongside one another and oil is transferred to a vessel via high-pressure hoses. The practice has only been allowed since 2013 in Brazilian waters. However, weak monitoring makes it difficult to track the most basic […]