Rio de Janeiro – Petrobras starts producing petrol with a 3% mixture of ethanol (E3) in Japan. The measure is the company’s first step in its project to enter the Asian market, trading Brazilian ethanol.<\/p>\n
According to a press statement disclosed by the company, Brazil Japan Ethanol \u2013 a joint venture between the Brazilian organisation and Japan Alcohol Trading \u2013 inaugurated on Monday (2), in Japan, the first production unit of E3 \u2013 fuel made from a mixture of petrol and 3% ethanol.<\/p>\n
The production capacity of the mill is estimated at up to three million litres of E3 a month. The fuel should be distributed in independent petrol stations. The supplier of petrol for the project should be refinery Nansei Sekiyu, in Okinawa, in which Petrobras has 87.5% participation.<\/p>\n
With the enterprise, Petrobras hopes "to show Japanese businessmen the technical and economic viability for sale in the country of a new fuel, which is both efficient and more ecological."<\/p>\n
The construction of the mill, which began in October 2008, is part of the Sodegaura project, a partnership between Brazil Japan Ethanol and the Ministry of Environment of Japan, which is aimed at the introduction of E3 on the Japanese market.<\/p>\n
Petrobras also informed that the mill is installed in the city of Sodegaura, in Kanto, in the Central Region of Japan, which answers to 40% of the total volume of petrol consumed in that country.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Mark Ament<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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