Petrobras’ Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc) Completes Its First Coastal Operation of Diesel S10

Fuel Discharge by Ships Increases Petrobras’ Competitiveness in Cabotage. The Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc) Has the Capacity to Produce 150 Thousand m³ of Diesel S10 per Month

Petrobras informs in a relevant fact that on August 9, its Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc) completed its first cabotage (maritime transport within the country’s coastal waters) operation of Diesel S10. STF Rules and the Government of Rio Will Have to Pay R$ 2 Billion in Indemnity for Expropriation of Land from the Manguinhos Refit Refinery

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The operation included a shipment of 25 thousand cubic meters of diesel to the Aquatic Terminal of Guanabara Bay – RJ, from where the product was transported by ship to the Port of Paranaguá – PR.

The Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc) has the capacity to produce 150 thousand m³ of Diesel S10 per month. According to Petrobras’ report, until the first half of this year, the segregated internal logistics system for Diesel S10 operation only allowed pumping movements to distribution companies around the refinery.

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With the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus and the reduction in diesel demand in the Rio de Janeiro region, the Duque de Caxias refinery (Reduc) carried out internal maneuvers and ballast adjustments to enable fuel discharge through its interconnection with the Aquatic Terminal of Guanabara Bay, where cabotage and export operations of other products, such as fuel oil export, bunker 0.5%, gasoline S10, petrochemical naphtha, maritime diesel, and S500, are already normally conducted.

“New cabotage operations are already being scheduled with the Diesel S10 produced at Reduc. With the current levels of local demand, the Duque de Caxias refinery is capable of cabotaging between 60 and 70 thousand m³ of the product per month,” explains the Production Scheduling Manager at Reduc, Gabriel Amorim.

About the Diesel Market

“The availability of this volume directly impacts the reduction of imported volume to meet the national diesel market and increases Petrobras’ competitiveness against sector importers,” stated the state-owned company in a communication.

According to Adriano Cesar de Medeiros Valentim, Production Scheduling Manager in the Industrial area, “given the recovery of the Diesel S10 market in Brazil, the discharge of S10 by Reduc to support cabotage areas or even to support markets with higher demand allows Petrobras to be even more competitive and increases the reliability of diesel supply, also enabling the refinery’s utilization factor to rise.”