Agência Brasil*
Rio de Janeiro – Brazilian state-owned oil company Petrobras will sell, in the following days, an initial shipment of 20 million litres of ethanol to Nigeria, in Africa. According to a press release, other shipments will take place according to the needs of the programme for implementing ethanol into the Nigerian energy matrix.
According to Petrobras, negotiations for ethanol sales to state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) started in August 2005. Nigeria is implementing a programme for adding 10% of alcohol to the gasoline sold in the country.
Petrobras will also provide technical support to Nigeria for mixing and handling alcohol, in addition to training employees of NNPC. Nevertheless, the Brazilian state-owned oil company does not forecast any investment in the construction of ethanol production plants, or even premises for storage, handling, and mixing ethanol with gasoline in the Nigeria.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
