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BRAZIL: PETROBRAS ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF VEGETABLE OIL IN DIESEL REFINEMENT.

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, May, 2006

According to anba: The president of Brazilian oil company, Sergio Gabrielli announced yesterday (18) that as of 2007 the company will produce diesel in industrial scale, adding vegetable oil in the product's refinement. "The result will be a diesel oil with better characteristics," he remarked, after the meeting of the National Council of Energetic Policy, carried out in the Planalto Palace, the Brazilian presidential offices, which counted on the participation of president of Brazil, Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva.

"We are using vegetable oil in the production process of common oil. The great transformation is the mixture of crude petroleum with vegetable oil to produce diesel," he explained. The minister of Mines and Energy, Silas Rondeau, who presides the National...

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