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Monday, October 06, 2008
Print This Page Petrobras Delivers First Shipment of Biodiesel
BRAZIL - Petrobras Biofuels delivered its first commercial load of biodiesel last week - a shipment, of 44,780 litres left Candeias Mill, in Bahia, the first biodiesel mill built by the state-owned company in the country.The delivery is part of the production sold in biodiesel auctions promoted by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuel Agency (ANP). In all, sales totalled 8 million litres of biodiesel.
Candeias mill has a capacity for production of 57 million litres of biodiesel per year.
Petrobras Biofuel also has another biodiesel mill in the city of Quixadá, in Ceará, and a third mill in Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais. The third is still in the final assembly stages.
Total production capacity of the three mills should be 170 million litres a year.
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