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Oil & Gas

ANP Open To Foreign Biofuel Trading

matheusgagliano Jun 25, 2018

The regulatory agency will hold a public hearing on July 26

Fuels

Truck Drivers Strike Impacts Ethanol Production

marcosardenberg May 29, 2018

In all, 100 million liters of fuel per day will not be produced, according to Unica

Biofuels

60 Ethanol Plants Earn Green Seal

matheusgagliano Jan 11, 2018

Sixty ethanol and sugar plants were awarded the Green Energy Certificate, issued by the Unica Bioelectricity Certification Program sponsored with Abraceel (Brazilian association of energy resellers) and the Electric Energy Commercialization…

Biogas To Bet on Carbon Credits for Growth

Redação Oct 18, 2017

The biogas and biomethane sector is firmly committed to RenovaBio, a federal program to reduce emissions based on biofuels, to take advantage of the enormous biogas potential - estimated at 80 million m³/day in Brazil according to a…

New Harvest, More Robust

Redação Nov 6, 2014

The return of rains in November tends to reduce the sugar content in the cane which renders it appropriate for ethanol production Given the accelerated grinding of sugarcane during the first half of October…

Biodiesel Plant

Redação Oct 31, 2014

From 2,000 trees evaluated, 40 were chosen to be the progenitors of the first generation of improved seedlings The Agroenergy division of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) has begun…

76 m³ In Offers

Redação Oct 27, 2014

The additional auction was held by the ANP to meet the demand of the new percentage mix of biodiesel in diesel oil, set at 7%. Mills offered a total volume of 76,064 m³ in biodiesel during the 39th…

2G Ethanol Enzyme In Brazil

Redação Oct 23, 2014

According to the company, 2G would not compete with traditional ethanol, being, rather, a complementary output The president of Novozymes in Brazil, Pedro Luiz Fernandes, announced the biotechnology company would…

Raízen To Produce 2G Ethanol

Redação Oct 23, 2014

Straw will also be one of the raw materials used Raízen, the sugarcane-energy company created from a joint venture between Shell and Cosan, is putting a production unit for second generation (2G)…

US$ 2.8 Billion For Ethanol

Redação Oct 22, 2014

Acoording to the bank the pursuit of efficiency through agricultural and industrial innovation is the solution for the segment According to valor Econômico, the head of the biofuels Department of the…

Biodiesel Sets New Record

Redação Oct 20, 2014

With capacity to produce 82 MM liters/year, the GranBio cellulosic ethanol plant (photo) was featured in the Bulletin Biodiesel production reached a new record in August, totaling 307,000 m³ in volume,…

Prior Listing

Redação Oct 15, 2014

The National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) today (October 15) released the preliminary qualification of the plants authorized to participate in the 39th Biodiesel Auction - Supplemental. In the…

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From the Media

Jul 19, 2018 - Reuters

Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Petrobras will start pumping oil from four new platforms between October and December, the company’s director for production and technology development Hugo Repsold said on Wednesday. Speaking at a business event, he said Petrobras could study building its own platforms after 2022 and predicted the company would head towards sustainable growth of oil production in the next few years.

Jul 19, 2018 - Agencia Brasil – EBC

The State University of Campinas (Unicamp) was selected Wednesday (Jul. 18) once again as the best university in Latin America, on a list put together by magazine Times Higher Education. Five other Brazilian institutions figured among the best ten. The top positions on the list headed by Brazil are shared by Chile, with two universities among the highest ten, in addition to Mexico and Colombia, with one each. A total of 129 universities in ten Latin American countries were considered, and the first two places were once again given to Unicamp and the University of São Paulo (USP). The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile retained the third position.

Jul 19, 2018 - Brazil Reports

Brazil’s central bank has recently released a preview of this year’s GDP, revealing that in May the country’s economy fell 3.34% in comparison with the previous month, reported news outlet G1. This economic dip can almost entirely be attributed to the truckers’ strikes that continued for 10 consecutive days in late May earlier on this year. The strikes that took place, which demanded a reduction in the cost of diesel, cost the Brazilian government an enormous amount of money and ground the country to a halt, cutting off supplies of fuel and general goods. The central bank’s report takes into account the months of the year and compares them in order to assess economic activity.

Jul 18, 2018 - Agencia Brasil – EBC

Information and evidence gathered as part of plea bargain statements and leniency deals forged in Brazil under Operation Carwash will be accepted by court authorities in Argentina. The talks on the use of material in Argentine courts were concluded last Friday (Jul. 13) between Brazil’s Office of the Prosecutor-General (PGR) and Argentina’s Prosecution Office. The cooperation agreement was conceived by the Secretariat for International Cooperation (SCI), linked to the Federal Prosecution Service (MPF). Over the course of the last six months, the secretariat was able to reach a consensus with Argentina, which was hesitant in granting immunity to those making plea bargain statements in exchange for information.