Petrobras corta em 15% os preços da gasolina e reduz refino devido aos impactos da expansão do coronavírus

Petrobras Cuts Gasoline Prices by 15% and Reduces Refining Due to Impacts of Coronavirus Expansion

Written by Flavia Marinho

Published on 25/03/2020 at 12:18

Updated on 25/03/2020 at 13:28

Petrobras corta em 15% os preços da gasolina e reduz refino devido aos impactos da expansão do coronavírus

Seja o primeiro a reagir!

With the new cut, the eighth this year, the accumulated drop in gasoline prices at Petrobras refineries will reach about 40% this year.

Petrobras will reduce gasoline prices at its refineries by 15% starting today (03/25). There will be no adjustments for diesel, the company informed. Eike closes plea deal with a fine of 800 million reais; 116 million will go to the Ministry of Health for combating coronavirus

Read Also

The reduction in gasoline prices will occur amid falling oil and derivative prices in the international market due to the impacts of the coronavirus expansion and a price war among major global producers of the commodity.

ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW

See also

With the new cut, the eighth this year, the accumulated drop in gasoline prices at Petrobras refineries – responsible for almost 100% of Brazil’s refining capacity – will reach about 40% this year.

Last week, Petrobras had already reduced gasoline prices by 12% and 7.5% for diesel. Diesel prices, in turn, have fallen by approximately 30% this year. The decrease in gasoline and diesel prices has not yet reached consumers’ pockets.

According to Argus data, “The average price of gasoline sold by Petrobras fell 20% between March 2 and 20, reaching R$1,351/m³. The Argus index for imported gasoline cargoes dropped 44% in the same period, reaching R$828/m³ based in Brazil.”

Petrobras is reducing the processing load at its refineries, and in light of the decrease in demand for fuels in the country, the company has adopted additional safety measures to reduce the circulation of workers in its industrial plants.

To maintain a reduced workload at the refineries, Petrobras has taken measures such as postponing scheduled shutdowns and changing the operation shifts from 8 hours to 12 hours at its refining, natural gas, and energy industrial units.

Not only these, but other measures have been adopted by Petrobras, such as remote work for employees over 60 years old and increased home office for administrative activities.

Petrobras claims it is monitoring suspected coronavirus cases and has changed the schedule of maritime units, denying that there are dozens of infected people aboard the platform P-67, in addition to other rumors, click here to check the full article.

“The criterion also applies to the boarding of employees. If they are already on board, they will wait for the scheduled disembarkation and will not board again until the situation normalizes,” adds the company.

Petrobras Cuts Gasoline Prices by 15% and Reduces Refining Due to Impacts of Coronavirus Expansion

With the new cut, the eighth this year, the accumulated drop in gasoline prices at Petrobras refineries will reach about 40% this year.

Read Also

Seen from space, an image taken by an astronaut shows an unlikely oasis in the Saudi Arabian desert, protected by a terrain that slows the advance of sand, surrounded by green circles, remnants of an extinct lake and nearly 10,000 years of preserved history.

While the U.S. still faces limitations in deep space, China is developing unprecedented technology with strategic satellites that maintain communication with the far side of the Moon and aims for dominance by 2030.

In Botswana, a salt flat of up to 16,000 km² that was once an African megalake spends months as an absolute white desert, but during the rainy season it transforms into a shallow sea that reappears from nowhere and can be seen from space in the middle of southern Africa.

The Blood Falls of Antarctica hide a living ecosystem trapped under the ice for over 2 million years, where microbes survive without light, without oxygen, and without ever having seen the Sun.

Bavarian archaeologists unearthed a medieval skeleton that had an articulated iron hand in place of its left arm, and the discovery reveals that doctors were already creating sophisticated prosthetics over 500 years ago.

The CEO of Honor in Spain says that smartphones will change with AI, foldables, and even robot phones; the component crisis is making cheap models more expensive in 2026 and shifting the focus to premium.

NASA announces the first interplanetary nuclear spacecraft in history destined for Mars and technology created to usher in a new era in deep space exploration: meet the SR-1 Freedom, equipped with a fission reactor and three helicopters inspired by Ingenuity to map Martian ice.

With 93 companies selling armored vehicles, aircraft, and monitoring systems to 148 countries, Brazil’s defense industry is doubling exports and is on track to break all records in 2026.

Brazil and Sweden finalize a military agreement to jointly train pilots, share experiences with the Gripen fighter, and allow Swedish crews of the KC-390 to train on Brazilian soil over the next two years.

Scientists warn that Earth’s oxygen has an expiration date and that the Sun itself will be responsible for ending the air we breathe by making photosynthesis impossible in about one billion years.

Science reveals that the error in the expansion of the cosmos is not a measurement flaw, but rather a sign that the universe may be hiding new physics capable of changing everything we know.

Petrobras Cuts Gasoline Prices by 15% and Reduces Refining Due to Impacts of Coronavirus Expansion

With the new cut, the eighth this year, the accumulated drop in gasoline prices at Petrobras refineries will reach about 40% this year.

Read Also

Seen from space, an image taken by an astronaut shows an unlikely oasis in the Saudi Arabian desert, protected by a terrain that slows the advance of sand, surrounded by green circles, remnants of an extinct lake and nearly 10,000 years of preserved history.

While the U.S. still faces limitations in deep space, China is developing unprecedented technology with strategic satellites that maintain communication with the far side of the Moon and aims for dominance by 2030.

In Botswana, a salt flat of up to 16,000 km² that was once an African megalake spends months as an absolute white desert, but during the rainy season it transforms into a shallow sea that reappears from nowhere and can be seen from space in the middle of southern Africa.

The Blood Falls of Antarctica hide a living ecosystem trapped under the ice for over 2 million years, where microbes survive without light, without oxygen, and without ever having seen the Sun.

Bavarian archaeologists unearthed a medieval skeleton that had an articulated iron hand in place of its left arm, and the discovery reveals that doctors were already creating sophisticated prosthetics over 500 years ago.

The CEO of Honor in Spain says that smartphones will change with AI, foldables, and even robot phones; the component crisis is making cheap models more expensive in 2026 and shifting the focus to premium.

More than R$ 526 million generated in oil in 2025 was not enough to place Espírito Santo in the lead of innovation — and the data shows exactly where the bottleneck is.

With salaries of up to R$ 30,000 and 2,500 open positions, a shipyard in Aracruz (ES) is at the center of a billion-dollar project by Petrobras that involves platforms capable of producing 225,000 barrels per day.

Impacts of tensions in the Middle East: how the rise in oil prices is transforming infrastructure contracts in Brazil, raising prices, delaying schedules, and exposing billion-dollar fragility in the sector.

Impacts of tensions in the Middle East: how the rise in oil prices is transforming infrastructure contracts in Brazil, raising prices, delaying schedules, and exposing billion-dollar fragility in the sector.

Government orchestrates strategy to revive the state-owned BR Distribuidora and contain the brutal surge in oil prices that has reached the mark of $100.

NASA announces the first interplanetary nuclear spacecraft in history destined for Mars and technology created to usher in a new era in deep space exploration: meet the SR-1 Freedom, equipped with a fission reactor and three helicopters inspired by Ingenuity to map Martian ice.

With 93 companies selling armored vehicles, aircraft, and monitoring systems to 148 countries, Brazil’s defense industry is doubling exports and is on track to break all records in 2026.

Brazil and Sweden finalize a military agreement to jointly train pilots, share experiences with the Gripen fighter, and allow Swedish crews of the KC-390 to train on Brazilian soil over the next two years.

Scientists warn that Earth’s oxygen has an expiration date and that the Sun itself will be responsible for ending the air we breathe by making photosynthesis impossible in about one billion years.

Science reveals that the error in the expansion of the cosmos is not a measurement flaw, but rather a sign that the universe may be hiding new physics capable of changing everything we know.