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A total volume of up to 2,19 million cubic meters of gas per day must be imported by the thermoelectric plant commanded by the state-owned Copel and Petrobras in Paraná
It was published in the Official Gazette of this Tuesday (08), the authorization by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, so that the thermoelectric plant located in the municipality of Araucária, in Paraná, can import natural gas from Bolivia. Petrobras is authorized to sell oil and gas assets without the need for a bidding process.
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The Araucária thermoelectric power plant is a partnership between the electricity company from Paraná, Copel, with an 80% stake, and the oil company Petrobras, which holds a 20% stake.
With a contract valid for a period of three years, the thermoelectric plant must import a total volume of up to 2,19 million cubic meters per day, being transported by the Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline (Gasbol), which had an agreement signed between Petrobras and Bolivian state-owned company YPFB.
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About the Araucária thermoelectric plant, in Paraná
The plant was conceived and designed in the late 1990s, with the Priority Program for Thermoelectric Plants (PPT) under the management of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, however, in 1998 the thermoelectric plant gained strength with the constitution of UEG Araucária, a company whose partners the North American El Paso, Copel and Petrobras.
The plant is also the first electricity generation unit in Paraná to use natural gas as fuel. The new thermoelectric plant cost around US$340 million and construction began on October 10, 2000 by UEG Araucária.
Steelmaker Gerdau also received government approval to import gas from Bolivia
Like the thermoelectric plant controlled by the state-owned companies Copel and Petrobras in Paraná, the company Gerdau also received the approval to import Bolivian natural gas to supply the demand of three subsidiaries in Mato Grosso do Sul.
The volume of imports by Gerdau Aços Longos is up to 169 thousand cubic meters per day. At Gerdau Aços Especiais it is 140 cubic meters/day and at Gerdau Açominas it is up to 210 cubic meters/day.
