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Crisis? What Crisis?

Claudia Siqueira Feb 2, 2012

The economic crisis that is afflicting the European Union once again is frightening Brazilian industrial exporters, the way it did during the global recession of 2008/09. Yet natural gas sales in the country continue to rise without…

On The Cutting Edge

Redação Feb 2, 2012

After more than 20 years in Brazil, the Ship Power Division of the Finnish company Wärtsilä finished 2011 with a contract that could represent a benchmark for its activities in Brazil. The agreement calls for the development of…

Fresh Paint

Redação Feb 2, 2012

With more than 100 projects underway, ranging from the construction of new refineries to the modernization of current refineries, the Supply Area of Petrobras will start 2012 with a number of reasons for celebration. A record number of…

Easier Credit

Redação Feb 1, 2012

Even though they are acting through independent agreements among themselves, the associated companies of the four Petro Networks in the state of Rio de Janeiro have obtained significant results in recent years —beginning…

Catalogued Companies

Redação Feb 1, 2012

In addition to the Petro Networks, there are other initiatives in Brazil that bring together suppliers in the oil and gas industry to promote business, encourage partnerships and bring new companies into the productive chain…

R&D Attracts US$ 221 MM

Redação Feb 1, 2012

Eighteen companies will invest R$ 395 million (US$ 221 MM) over the next three years in solar power R&D in Brazil. The projects total 25 MWp of power and were approved in the strategic program “Technical and…

New Rules Coming

Redação Feb 1, 2012

Aneel has postponed — from December last year until February of this year — the regulations for the incentives for distributed solar energy micro-generation (less than 100 kW) and mini-generation…

Solar Policy

Redação Feb 1, 2012

Members of the government are signaling that the public policy option for the solar energy industry in Brazil will be for distributed generation. Subsidies are practically discarded and the auctions may be very expensive,…

Now A Field

Redação Feb 1, 2012

The prospect formerly known as Guará is now called Sapinhoá. With an estimated recoverable volume of oil of 2.1 billion boe, Petrobras declared the area commercially viable at the end of 2011, and it is…

Cleaner Fuels

Redação Feb 1, 2012

The units that are being inaugurated in Brazil’s refineries in 2011 and forecast for 2012 are part of an investment cycle begun in 2004 to improve the quality of fuels sold in Brazil. The investments were a response…

Decisive Year For Wind Power

Redação Feb 1, 2012

After a year of records, Brazil is starting 2012 with 1.4 GW of installed wind power and good prospects of reaching nearly 3 GW by December. The capacity should double with the startup of 58 wind farms with capacity of 1,486.6 MW,…

Green Line

Redação Feb 1, 2012

The nearly 2,000 km Tucuruí - Macapá - Manaus long transmission line (TL), which will connect the capital of the state of Amazonas to the National Interconnected System (SIN), is beginning to take shape. By the end of the…

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From the Media

Jan 19, 2021 - S&P Global

Brazilian oil company Petrobras' average gasoline price hike of 7.93% was not expected to increase the economic advantage of the biofuel E100 over the fossil fuel, market participants said. The state-led oil company announced the increase on Jan. 18, which will be implemented on Jan. 19 on an ex-refinery basis. More than 80% of light vehicles in Brazil are flex-fuel, which means that drivers can fill their tanks with E100 or gasoline. The fossil fuel in the country has a mandatory blend of 27% anhydrous ethanol. The fuel's choice is usually economically driven and consumers will generally fill their tanks with E100 only when its price is 70% or less than the gasoline price, because of hydrous ethanol's lower energy content.

Jan 19, 2021 - Renewables Now

Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA will be the turbine supplier for the 434-MW first phase of Santo Agostinho wind complex in Brazil, Engie Brasil Energia SA announced. According to the local arm of France's Engie SA , the wind project requires an investment of about R$ 2.2 billion. With commercial operation set to take place by March 2023, the wind complex's output will be sold in the Brazilian free energy market, which closed 2019 with a volume of operations of R$ 134 billion, 6% up from 2018.

Jan 19, 2021 - World Economic Forum

Henry Ford in 1925 called ethanol “the fuel of the future.” Blending ethanol with gasoline substantially reduces the carbon content of the fuel. According to the US EPA, “the life-cycle emissions reductions in comparison to gasoline are about 20% for corn-based ethanol and 60% for sugarcane-based ethanol”. Cars manufactured post-2001 can easily accept a blend of 15% ethanol “without causing exceedances of air pollution standards.” Brazil, for example, accounts for 25% of the world’s ethanol production – and instead of corn, it produces ethanol from sugarcane. Ethanol sourced from sugarcane is the “cheapest source of ethanol” in the world. Brazil has experimented with “fuel flex” cars, which can be operated on any mixture of ethanol and gasoline, up to 100% ethanol.

Jan 19, 2021 - Light Reading

Huawei may be allowed to participate in the construction of Brazil's 5G networks after all, according to local reports. The newspaper Estado de S. Paulo said financial pressures and the imminent exit of President Trump from the White House are forcing President Jair Bolsonaro to backtrack on his opposition to the China-based vendor from bidding to provide 5G network equipment. Reuters noted that, like Trump, Bolsonaro believes that Huawei shares confidential data with China'’s Communist government, despite a lack of proof. Only last month, Reuters reported that Bolsonaro's government was looking for a legal way to exclude Huawei from 5G networks in Brazil.