Agora sim! Petrobras to inaugurate thermoelectric plant and announce the deployment of the Rio Grande do Norte refinery *By* La Société - September 19, 08 at 11:49 [image: Imprimer (ouvre une nouvelle page)]<http://www.edubourse.com/divers/impression.php?actu=45544> [image: Envoyer à un ami]<http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?actu=45544#> [image: Etre alerté]<http://www.edubourse.com/membres/mes-alertes.php?ajout=1279>
[image: Petrobras]<http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?soc=1279> Companies that know their customers are more successful abroad<http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?actu=45545> Petrobras -Investments of $5.2 billion in infrastructure<http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?actu=45546> Petrobras elected the 2007 energy company<http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?actu=45547> The global industry does not have the installed capacity for the pre-salt yet <http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?actu=45543> Petrobras announces P-55 contracts<http://www.edubourse.com/finance/actualites.php?actu=45515> [image: Petrobras to inaugurate thermoelectric plant and announce the deployment of the Rio Grande do Norte refinery] The ceremony that will mark the inauguration of the Jesus Soares Pereira Thermoelectric Plant (UTE JSP/Termoaçu) and the deployment of the Clara Camarão Refinery, in Guamaré, will be held tomorrow (09/19), at 12 PM, in Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte. The event, to be attended by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is scheduled to be held at the Expocenter (Dix-Huit Rosado Events Center), on the campus of the Semi-Arid Rural Federal University (Rodovia BR -110, km 47, Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte). The Jesus Soares Pereira Thermoelectric Plant, part of the Growth Acceleration Program (GAP), is an important Petrobras project aimed to boost the supply of electric energy in Northeastern Brazil and to diversify the sources of power generation in the country. With the new refinery, Rio Grande do Norte, already self-sufficient in all other derivatives, will also be in gasoline. The plant will be installed in Alto do Rodrigues, in the Açu Valley, 110 km away from Mossoró. The Clara Camarão Refinery will be deployed at the Guamaré Industrial Pole. Jesus Soares Pereira Plant With a total investment of R$650 million, the unit is capable of generating 320 MW, more than half of Rio Grande do Norte's demand for power, which is approximately 600 MW. The plant will be interconnected to the basic electric energy transmission grid at the Açu II substation, at 230 KV, and will send its production to the National Interconnected System (NIS). The thermoelectric plant has been authorized to operate commercially since September 10. The generation of 320 MW will add 18% more power to the installed capacity of the natural gas thermoelectric plants used to supply Northeastern Brazil, which totals 1,770 MW. Initially, the plant will produce power from natural gas extracted in Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará, which currently produce 1.3 million cubic meters of the product per day. As of December, the plant may also be supplied with Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), which will be sent from the LNG Regasification Terminal of Pecém, Ceará. The reinforced supply will boost the unit's electric energy production capacity. As of the first quarter of 2010, when the Cacimbas-Catu gas pipeline, which will interconnect the country's gas pipeline networks, goes online, the plant can be supplied fully with natural gas produced in the basins in the Southeastern Region. Generation will occur at the request of the National Electric System Operator (NESO). The Açu-Serra do Mel gas pipeline was built to supply the UTE-JSP. Thirty-one kilometers in length and capable of transporting 3 million cubic meters of gas per day, the gas pipeline is 14 inches in diameter and interconnects the plant to the gas pipeline network that exists in the region by means of the Gasfor. The Açu-Serra do Mel, a project which is also part of the GAP, was completed in December 2007. Total investments were R$42 million and 200 direct jobs were created. Some 100 employees are part of the team that will operate the UTE-JSP. At the peak of the construction work, a total of 2,300 direct jobs, of which 1,100 held by workers from the Açu Valley and from other regions of Rio Grande do Norte. The plant is a partnership between Petrobras (72.1%) and Neoenergia (27,9%). Clara Camarão Refinery, in Rio Grande do Norte The new Rio Grande do Norte refinery will be deployed with the adjustment of facilities that already exist in the Guamaré industrial pole, which already produces LPG, diesel and aviation fuel, and, as of 2010, gasoline and diesel at international quality levels (50 ppm sulfur content). A tribute to Clara Camarão, the Brazilian native who led a group of natives against the Dutch during colonization, this will be Petrobras' first refinery to be named after a woman. Clara Camarão commanded a female battalion that had decisive performance during the battle that was held in the city of Porto Calvo, in 1637. The Rio Grande do Norte market consumes 22.6 million liters of gasoline, 28.5 million liters of diesel, 7.1 million liters of aviation fuel, 7.6 million liters of ethanol, and 6 million bottles of cooking gas per month. With a daily production of 4,500 barrels (715,000 liters) of gasoline (the refinery will process some 30,000 bpd), the state, which is self-sufficient in the remaining derivatives, will also be so in gasoline. That is why Petrobras decided to invest in a new unit which, during construction, will generate nearly 1,000 direct jobs. Since its deployment, $1.65 billion have been invested in the Guamaré Industrial Pole. To produce gasoline and improve the quality of its derivatives, another $191 million are expected to be invested there, for a total of $1.84 billion. Rio Grande do Norte will have a modern refinery, appropriate for the consumption of the main oil derivatives, which are fundamental for the development of the state. * By* La Société
