Refinaria getulio vargas biography
- The Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (Repar) has a throughput of 33,000 m3 of oil per day and is the fifth largest refinery in Brazil.
- From 2001, it was incorporated as Alberto Pasqualini - Refap SA, being reinstated to Petrobras in August 2012.
- In July of 2000, an accident occurred in the Refinery Presidente Getúlio Vargas (REPAR), located in the Municipality of Araucaria, Southern.
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The Alberto Pasqualini Refinery is located in an area of 580 hectares in the Rio Grande do Sul city of Canoas, where once stood the Brigadeira Farm. Its throughput is 32,000 m³/day and it caters mainly to the regional market, with a focus on maximizing diesel production. From 2001, it was incorporated as Alberto Pasqualini - Refap SA, being reinstated to Petrobras in August 2012.
Location:
Avenida Getúlio Vargas, 11001 - Bairro Brigadeira
Canoas - RS - Brasil
CEP 92420-221
Phone:
(51) 3415-2000
Terminals it is connected to
The refinery is connected, via pipelines, to the Almirante Soares Dutra Maritime Terminal (Tedut), in Osório/RS, and to the Niterói Terminal (Tenit) in Canoas/RS, from where the products are transported via waterway to the Rio Grande Terminal, in Rio Grande/RS.
Brief background
The Alberto Pasqualini Refinery went on stream in September 1968 with an average daily throughput of 4500 m³ of oil. This capacity was gradually expanded until it reached 20,000 m³/day in the 1990s. In 2001, it became a corporation, the Alberto Pasqualini - Refap S.
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Ipiranga (company)
Brazilian fuel company, subsidiary of Ultra
Ipiranga Produtos de Petróleo S.A, commonly shortened to Ipiranga (Portuguese pronunciation:[ipiˈɾɐ̃ɡɐ]), is a Brazilian fuel company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is a subsidiary of Ultra. It is the second-largest Brazilian fuel distribution company, and the largest in the private sector.[1]
The company has about 6,500 gas stations across the country and 1,400 convenience stores. Ipiranga owns the Brazilian operations of the ampm chain of convenience stores, Jet Oil oil change services, Km de Vantagens loyalty program, and ConectCar prepaid system for electronic payment of tolls and parking.[1]
Etymology
Ipiranga combines the indigenous Tupi words ‘y (river) and pirang (red) to mean "red river".[citation needed]
History
Destilaria Rio-Grandense de Petróleo S.A., the first Brazilian distillery, was founded in November 1934 by Brazilian and Argentinian investors in Uruguaiana, state of Rio Grande do Sul. The distillery produced ful
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Candeias Oil Well (C-1)
Oil well in Bahia, Brazil
The Candeias Oil Well (C-1), discovered on December 13, 1941, is located in the municipality of Candeias, in the interior of the state of Bahia.[1][2]
Context and discovery
Drilled on June 30, 1941, the Candeias Oil Well 1 (C-1) was the first commercial exploration well and the first oil field in Brazil.[3][4] Previously, on January 21, 1939, a well had been discovered in Lobato, a district of Salvador, but it was not commercially exploited. Both used the same drilling machine. Work began on April 2, 1941, but drilling only took place in June and was completed on December 31, 1941.[5][6][7][8]
The exploration of oil in Brazil dates back to the government of Pedro II, when he granted permission to the Englishman Thomas Denny Sargent to extract oil and other minerals in the south of Bahia.[9][10] In 1892, drilling was carried out by Eugênio Camargo, who only managed to extract clayey sand. In 1907, the Mineralogical Se
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