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The Brazilian market is increasingly paying attention to the energy transition and sustainability solutions and, now, the company Eneva is investing in the natural gas sector with the creation of new hubs to sell the product as an alternative to fuel oil.
The scenario in Brazil for this Wednesday, (27/07), is one of a strong movement of energy companies and industrial companies towards the adoption of cleaner and more sustainable energy sources. Thus, Eneva is creating new hubs for the production and sale of natural gas, focusing on the energy transition market so that gas serves as an alternative to fuel oil, contributing to the environment.
New Eneva natural gas hubs aim to boost the industrial sector by replacing fuel oil with a cleaner and more sustainable resource
Eneva is now focusing on the Brazilian energy transition market and developing new natural gas production and marketing hubs to boost the national energy and industrial segment. In this way, the company still invests in the purchase of thermal energy and during the next auction in September, it will contract 2 GW of the 8 thermoelectric GW of compulsory deployment, according to the Eletrobras Law (law 14.182/2021).
Eneva's financial director, Marcelo Habibe, highlighted that this is an essential move for the natural gas market and energy transition. Since, if the company reaches the target in the event, it will be able to develop one of the new hubs in the north of the country, after monetizing the natural gas from the Azulão (AM) reserves, in the Amazonas/Solimões basin. This field has already started its monetization in the natural gas market during the month of April this year, with the operations of the thermal Jaguatirica II, located in Roraima.
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And, with the Azulão field, the Juruá field becomes one of the two assets that would allow Eneva to supply 4 million m³ per day (m³/day) of natural gas in the region. With this, Eneva's new hubs for the production of the product begin to form and the company intends to invest in the energy market with a focus on replacing fuel oil with natural gas. In this way, the company stated that it will invest in the next auctions and intends to meet the demand that is currently focused on the use of this type of fuel.
Company invests in the sale of natural gas to large consumers to replace fuel oil with the product in one of its new commodity hubs
In addition to the implementation of natural gas hubs in the Azulão and Juruá fields with new thermal plants for energy production, Eneva now intends to focus on selling natural gas to large industrial consumers. The company's focus is on the Manaus Free Trade Zone region. For consumers who are interested in replacing fuel oil in their production processes with gas, “cleaner and cheaper”.
Thus, this will be the next of the company's natural gas hubs, next to Parnaíba (MA). With a production capacity of 9 million m³ per day, 8 million of which supply the Parnaíba Thermoelectric Complex, with six thermal plants.
Eneva has already been investing in the supply of natural gas to the industrial market and signed an agreement in May this year to supply the fuel to Suzano's facilities in Imperatriz (MA), with a total investment of R$ 530 million for the beginning of delivery in 2024.
In addition, the company expanded its natural gas hubs in the Northeast, with the purchase of Termofortaleza (which belonged to Enel) and Porto do Sergipe, from New Fortress Energy with eBrasil, and now intends to focus on the market for selling fuel to these companies.
