Published by Todd Bush on October 21, 2024
Vale and Petrobras announced on Friday the signing of a Strategic Alliance Agreement to supply products with a focus on competitiveness and advancing the decarbonization agenda. This agreement, which reflects the natural evolution of the protocol of intentions signed by the companies in September 2023, establishes conditions for testing and potentially marketing three strategic products: co-processed diesel with renewable content, natural gas, and bunker with 24% renewable content. The products included in the agreement were defined on the basis of joint studies between the companies.
Petrobras' CEO Magda Chambriard (at left) and Vale's CEO Gustavo Pimenta hold a sample of Diesel R (photo: Carlos Eduardo Livino/ Agência Petrobras)
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“We are very happy to announce this broad partnership with Petrobras, which brings benefits to both companies and creates value for Brazil,” says Vale's CEO, Gustavo Pimenta. “The agreement reinforces Vale's commitment to promoting the decarbonization of its operations and offering solutions to reduce its customers' emissions, thus leveraging Brazil's competitive edge in renewable fuels.”“We are developing ever greener fuels and honouring our commitment to decarbonize our activities. The partnership with Vale is yet another realization of Petrobras' goal of improving production capacity and the company's logistics structure to deliver to the market greener products such as Diesel R and reinforce our decarbonization strategy,” says Petrobras president Magda Chambriard.Diesel R5 is an S10 diesel with 5% HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) in its composition. It is produced by co-processing oil derivatives with raw materials of plant origin, resulting in a product with identical technical specifications to mineral diesel and 60% less carbon intensity in the renewable portion.The agreement provides for collaboration on more competitive models for the supply of natural gas, _an essential input for the production of pellets and also iron ore briquettes - a product developed by Vale that contributes to promoting the decarbonization of the steel industry._And finally, the alliance provides for Petrobras to sell a very low-sulphur bunker blend with 24% biodiesel for testing on an iron ore transport vessel working for Vale.
Locomotive in the Vitória-Minas Railway. Photo: Judeu Marc/ Vale
The first action under the agreement has already begun with the supply of diesel with renewable content (Diesel R5) by Petrobras. The product began to be supplied to Vale in the second week of October to carry out industrial-scale tests on the Vitória-Minas Railroad and at the Fábrica Nova mine, in the Mariana Complex (Minas Gerais, Brazil).Petrobras is a pioneer in the development of diesel with renewable content. It is a product obtained by co-processing in Petrobras refineries and does not require any alterations to vehicles or storage structures in order to be used. The product also requires a mixture of biodiesel ester, according to the percentage defined by current regulations.##About PetrobrasPetrobras is a Brazilian company and one of the largest oil and gas producers in the world, mainly dedicated to exploration and production, refining, energy generation and marketing. Petrobras has expertise in exploration and production in deep and ultra-deep waters as a result of almost 50 years of developing Brazil's offshore basins, making it the world leader in this segment. Its priority is to operate at low costs and with low carbon emissions, reinforcing its commitment to sustainable development for a just energy transition in Brazil. Its ambition is to neutralize emissions (scopes 1 and 2) in the activities under its control by 2050.
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