15 Mar 2010 - by PreSalt.com - Source: Café com o Presidente
The President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said today (15) wants the country to produce oil products of better quality and that this could be achieved through investment in refineries by Petrobras (Bovespa: PETR3/PETR4, NYSE: PBR / PBRA, Latibex: XPBR / XPBRA, BCBA: APBR / APBRA). In his weekly "Breakfast with the President", he noted that oil and gas will be extracted from the pre-salt layer is the path that Brazil would become a major oil exporter.
"We do not export crude oil. We export products that can generate greater gains for Petrobras and Brazil. So we are doing refineries in Maranhão, Ceará, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, "he said. Lula recalled that the government is also working on the recovery of some refineries. "We also recovered most of our refineries, so they are great investments for us to adapt our refineries to produce a higher quality oil products, especially diesel fuel and gasoline, which has a very strong sulfur content, and we want produce gasoline an international standard." he said.
"The investments are extremely important, because in Rio de Janeiro, COMPERJ (Petrochemical Complex in Rio de Janeiro), we are making a refinery and a petrochemical complex, it is extremely important because it will create a dynamic development of the petrochemical industry in Brazil. And in Parana state, we were part of an investment of $ 5.4 billion refinery that will generate, in July approximately 20 thousand new jobs in the state of Parana. And all we need in Brazil is making investments to create jobs, generate income and generates better quality of life to Brazilian people" ", Lula said.
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