Agência Brasil*
Coari – Petrobras and the Brazilian federal government started the construction works on the Urucu-Manaus gas pipeline, in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas. The construction may generate nearly 3,500 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs. The cost estimated for the approximately 670 kilometres pipeline is of US$ 1 billion. The construction was being announced since 1998.
In Coari, city in Amazonas, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made today (01) the first welding spot on the pipeline, which should be finished only in March 2008.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey

