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Article: BIODIESEL PURCHASE BY PETROBRAS TO BENEFIT 65,000 FAMILIES
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- Info-Prod Research (Middle East)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2006
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According to anba: Brazilian oil company Petrobras signed today
(03) with four private companies their first contracts for the
purchase of biodiesel. The companies Agropalma, Granol, Soy Minas and
Brasil Ecodiesel were the winners of a tender held in December by the
National Petroleum Agency (ANP). By the contracts, evaluated in US$
22.5 million, the companies will supply 65.3 million litres of
biodiesel per year to the state owned company. This, according to the
Press Secretariat at the Planalto Palace, is going to benefit 65,000
families of farmers who are going to ...