News
[VEHICLES]
Electric Or Flex Fuel?
On the one hand, automobile manufacturers, energy distributors and environmentalists are mobilizing around the economic and environmental potential of the electric car. On the other hand, the government appears to be divided between prov [...]
[SUPPLY]
Opportunities In Numbers
Launched at the end of 2009, the Prominp’s Portal of Opportunities for the Oil and Natural Gas Supply Chain allows vendors to view the Brazilian market demand of more than 1,500 items for the 2010-2014 period. The system was [...]
[SUPPLY]
The Local Content Challenge
Prominp’s Portal of Opportunities undoubtedly is an excellent contribution to the industry. However, even with this help available, for Brazilian and foreign companies alike the question remains the same: What is the index of local [...]
[RESTRUCTURING]
Large Projects, Great Changes
The E&P area of Petrobras has changed since the end of May. The main business area of the company is beginning to go through a thorough process of restructuring. With the prospects of growth in the area, especially the pre-salt, the [...]
[HYDRO POWER]
Everybody Wants Belo Monte
After the auction for the construction of the Belo Monte power plant (11,233 MW installed capacity) in the state of Pará, which occurred in April, the dispute now is between equipment and services suppliers for the project, the th [...]
[LOGiSTICS]
Support For Exports
The supply logistics for ships that carry oil produced in Brazil to international markets will change beginning in 2013. In the expectation of an increase in oil exports, especially after the pre-salt projects start coming on stream, Pe [...]
[STRATEGY]
Angolan Appetite
The setbacks of the economy and recent acquisition of Starfish have not been sufficient to satisfy the appetite of Sonangol in Brazil. Having paid out US$ 145 M for the purchase of the Brazilian company the Angolan oil company will inves [...]
[NEWCOMER]
Karoon Starting Up In Santos
Karoon Petróleo e Gás, a subsidiary of Karoon Gas Australia, should begin drilling for the first time in Brazilian offshore waters in 2011. The company intends to drill at least three wells in its five shallow water blocks [...]
[SUPPLY]
Map Of Supply And Demand
Suppliers of oil industry services and equipment in Brazil can no longer grumble about the lack of information about the size of orders in the sector. The Portal of Opportunities for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Supply Chain brings t [...]
[RENEWABLE SOURCES]
Green Fuels Taking Off
Similar to what has already occurred in a number of other countries, a partnership between Physic nut producers, airlines and Brazilian organizations linked to the civil aviation industry are seeking approval for the use of a new aircraf [...]
[NUCLEAR POWER]
A New Plant For A New Era
After a series of disagreements lasting more than 24 years, work on the Angra 3 nuclear power plant (1405 MW) in Angra dos Reis, RJ, was officially begun on June 1, the day after the license from the National Nuclear Energy Commission (C [...]
[REFINING]
Doubling The Project
The investment is now twice as large. Already viewed by the market as a project with capacity to spare, the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (Comperj) will now work side-by-side with another project. Petrobras decided to add a second [...]
[NATURAL GAS]
New Frontiers For LNG
The South American liquefied gas market, which was nonexistent three years ago, has begun to emerge. This year the region should reach a regasification capacity of 50 million m3/day. In the coming decade new Brazilian units, among them t [...]
[WIND POWER]
Alternative Leap Forward
As recently as five years ago, wind energy in Brazil was nothing more than an expensive and distant dream. From that dream to reality, wind energy today plays a leading role among expanding alternative sources of energy and is preparing [...]
[HYDRO POWER]
Operation To Be Moved Up
The Norte Energia consortium plans to anticipate the start up of the Belo Monte mega project, officially scheduled to begin in February 2015. The idea of the group is to move forward the date for the generation of power from the plant as [...]
[HYDRO POWER]
A Two-Way Street
At the same time that the Belo Monte project and the 10-Year Energy Expansion Plan focus the attention of international investors and suppliers on the hydroelectric generation industry in Brazil, the federal government’s electricit [...]
[ETHANOL]
Building A Futures Market
The ethanol sector in Brazil has just gained two new agents that promise to bring greater organization and transparency to the sales and supply of the product in domestic and international markets. In taking the decision to enter this ma [...]
[RENEWABLE SOURCES]
Rice Husk Feed For Thermal Plant
The 12.3 MW São Borja thermoelectric plant in Rio Grande do Sul, powered by rice husk, is in the final stages of construction. Costing R$ 55 million (US$ 30 million) the plant will start up in September. The project belongs to th [...]
