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Fuel disposal by ships increases Petrobras' competitiveness in cabotage. The Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc) has the capacity to produce 150 m³ of S10 Diesel per month
Petrobras informs in a material fact that on August 9, its Duque de Caxias Refinery (Reduc) concluded its first cabotage (transport by maritime mode within the country's coastal waters) of Diesel S10. STF hits hammer and Rio Government will have to pay R$ 2 billion in compensation for expropriation of land at the Manguinhos Refit refinery
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The operation included a shipment of 25 cubic meters of diesel to the Waterway Terminal in Baia da Guanabara – 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 the Petrobras report, until the first half of this year, the internal logistics system segregated for the operation of the Diesel S10 only allowed pumping movements for the distribution companies around the refinery.
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With the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus and the reduction in demand for diesel in the Rio de Janeiro region, the Duque de Caxias refinery (Reduc) carried out internal maneuvers and ballast conditioning in order to facilitate the flow of fuel through its interconnection with the Waterway Terminal of Guanabara Bay, where cabotage and export operations of other products are already carried out, such as export fuel oil, 0,5% bunker, S10 gasoline, petrochemical naphtha, marine diesel and S500, among others.
“New cabotage operations are already being programmed with the Diesel S10 produced at Reduc. With the current levels of local demand, the Duque de Caxias refinery is able to handle between 60 and 70 thousand m³ of product per month”, explains Reduc's Production Programming sector manager, Gabriel Amorim.
About the diesel market
"The availability of this volume has a direct impact on the reduction of the imported volume to serve the domestic diesel market and increases Petrobras' competitiveness against importing agents in the sector," said the state-owned company in a statement.
According to the manager of Production Programming for the Industrial area, Adriano Cesar de Medeiros Valentim, “given the reheating of the S10 Diesel market in Brazil, the flow of S10 by Reduc to serve cabotage areas or even to support markets with greater demand, allows Petrobras to be even more competitive and increase the reliability of the diesel supply, also making it possible to increase the refinery's utilization factor”.
