Petrobras quer fundir 13 usinas termoelétricas a gás e arrecadar até 30 bilhões de dólares

Petrobras Seeks to Merge 13 Thermoelectric Plants and Raise Up to 30 Billion Dollars

Written by Flavia Marinho

Published on 10/03/2020 at 14:25

Updated on 10/03/2020 at 14:30

Petrobras quer fundir 13 usinas termoelétricas a gás e arrecadar até 30 bilhões de dólares

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With the Sale of 13 Power Plants, Petrobras’ Assets Will Gain Market Value. The Company Aims to Raise Between US$ 20 Billion and US$ 30 Billion in the Long Term

Petrobras intends to unify 13 natural gas thermal power plants, to be sold after the energy supply auction scheduled for April 30. Petrobras Sells Onshore Oil Fields in Bahia to Eagle Oil and Gas Exploration

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The goal of the merger is to increase the value of the companies’ assets through these sales. Petrobras aims to raise around 30 billion dollars over a 15-year period. These figures are expected to come from the capital markets.

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“This plan aims at a return of resources that the oil company currently lacks to invest in other sectors, such as the pre-salt, for example. With these sales, it continues as a distributor and thus maintains a share of profitability in the market,” analyzed lawyer Thiago Guimarães, a master’s in public policies, with experience in the biofuels market.

The government’s objective with the April auction is to replace a group of oil-fired thermal plants with gas and coal plants. Petrobras has not commented on the intention to merge the auctioned companies into one.

Government Closely Monitors Oil Prices, Says Ministry of Mines and Energy

This Monday (09) started off hectic due to the clash between two giants in the global oil sector, Russia and Saudi Arabia, which triggered a historic drop in oil prices, the largest daily reduction ever recorded since 1991 during the Gulf War.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) is closely monitoring and evaluating the possible effects that the unfolding of this dispute brings to Brazil.

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With the Sale of 13 Power Plants, Petrobras’ Assets Will Gain Market Value. The Company Aims to Raise Between US$ 20 Billion and US$ 30 Billion in the Long Term

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With billions in loans, China is rebuilding Nigeria’s railway network from scratch, abandoning the British colonial tracks that have turned to scrap and creating a corridor of over 1,300 km to take the load off the roads of Africa’s largest economy.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

Forget petroleum-based asphalt: a Scottish company transforms 684,000 plastic bottles into one kilometer of road that is 60% more resistant and up to 10 times more durable, and the technology has already started replacing traditional asphalt in more than 30 countries.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

Austrian engineers have developed an inflatable concrete technology that transforms flat slabs into domes using only air pressure, eliminating scaffolding and temporary forms, and potentially changing the way bridges, tunnels, and curved roofs are constructed worldwide.

A robot named Walter does the work of five bricklayers per hour and can save the construction industry, where the average age of professionals is 46 years and almost no one wants to learn the trade anymore, in the United Kingdom.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.

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