Categoria: Inglês

Here at Açu Petróleo, protecting the environment is the path to development. To reinforce this value, our employees participated in the turtle release action at Praia das Conchas, in Açu – an initiative of the Sea Turtle Monitoring Program, which we carried out together with Porto do Açu and Ferroport. With great enthusiasm and aware of the importance of the program for the life of the turtles, we had the participation of approximately 50 employees. Since the beginning of this last breeding season, the program has identified 1,180 nests and recorded the birth of about 21,800 chicks. In 11 years of the program, there are more than 13 thousand registered nests and about 912 thousand chicks released into the sea. Stimulating good environmental practices is in our DNA.

2020 has started and we are already in full swing. In the last few days, we carried out the first Equinor operation. The operation that begins the partnership with the IOC (International Oil Company) involved two Suezmax vessels.

The operation is part of the 3-year contract that the company signed with Açu Petróleo last year and which aims to export the oil production from Roncador field.

This operation reinforces the market’s confidence in Açu Petróleo as a safe, efficient and sustainable solution for oil exports.

At the end of November, we held the Internal Week for the Prevention of Port Work Accidents (SIPATP), which featured a series of activities aimed at preventing accidents at work and occupational diseases.

During the closing ceremony, a employees recognition occured between workers from Açu Petróleo, Oiltanking and other companies. The initiative reinforces our commitment to safety, a intrinsic value in Porto do Açu.

Açu Petróleo participated in one of the largest oil and gas fairs in the world, OTC Brasil. For the first time with an integrated stand, in partnership with Porto do Açu and GNA, we introduce our visitors to the oil, gas and energy hubs, such as all infrastructure and business opportunities at Açu.

At the SulAmérica Convention Center, we received hundreds of visitors and potential customers. In addition, we shown our interactive tool, where the public could browse and learn about the opportunities of the largest port-industry complex in Latin America.

During the three days, lectures in pocket format were also presented at the booth, with representatives of companies operating in Porto do Açu.

Açu Petróleo has just expanded its customer list. On October 25 and 26, the company carried out the first oil transshipment operation for Repsol, which signed a contract to carry out a single operation at the company’s oil terminal. With this operation, Açu Petróleo also reaches, for the first time, 4 different customers’ operations in the same month: Repsol, Shell, Galp and Petrobras.

About 1 million barrels were transshiped in this operation, carried out between a VLCC vessel, White Nova, and a shuttle vessel, Raquel Knusten. At the end of the operation, the VLCC left Açu half loaded.

The month of October had a positive balance for the Prumo Group company: 10 operations were carried out at the company’s terminal, which offers operational excellence for our customers.

The CEO of Açu Petróleo, Victor Bomfim, was one of the invited speakers for the forum on the technical regulation of oil terminals, during Rio Pipeline 2019, one of the biggest events in the pipeline segment. He spoke about future projects for the Oil Terminal in Porto do Açu.

Our oil hub was also presented at an interactive structure at the event, shared with GNA – Gás Natural Açu and Prumo. It was great opportunity to share the new Açu Petróleo project.

Açu Petróleo has been developing actions with the local Açu community to promote environmental and social awareness trough the workshop held in late September on the conservation of small cetaceans, such as dolphins, which the company promoted with students from schools in the Atafona region. In order to introduce cetacean and other fauna species which belongs to the region and their interaction with human activities, Açu Petróleo brought an activity that promoted, in a playful way, the construction of a large collaborative map. In addition to the map, the students also held a collaborative drawing workshop in order to fix the learned content and bring their perspective about the theme. 74 students attented to this event, 29 from E.M Dionélia Gonçalves dos Santos and 45 from E.M Amália Soares de Almeida, both located in Atafona.

This week, Açu Petróleo completed the 100th oil transshipment operation at its Terminal located in Porto do Açu. The 100th operation was carried out for the client Petrobras, among the VLCC vessel Miracle Hope and the Suezmax Rio 2016. T-OIL reached the impressive mark of 100 million barrels exported since the beginning of the terminal’s operations, in August 2016.

“Achieving the 100th operation proves that we operate a terminal that offers operational excellence and safety in the operations carried out. The fact that we have doubled the number of transshipments carried out in one year, reaffirms the commitment of all Açu Petróleo employees to build a legacy of efficiency for T-OIL”, comments Commercial Director Eduardo Goulart.

This milestone reinforces the operational excellence of T-OIL, the only private Brazilian terminal capable of receiving VLCC vessels, one of the largest class in the world. With high level technology, Açu Petróleo has a client portfolio that includes companies such as Petrobras, Shell, Equinor and Galp.

Açu Petróleo (joint venture between Prumo Logística and Oiltanking) and Petrogal reaffirmed their partnership and renewed the contract for oil transfer at the Terminal in Porto do Açu, in São João da Barra (RJ) until 2023. With the new contract, Petrogal, which has performing oil transshipments in the terminal since 2017, will double the number of export operations at T-Oil up to 130 million barrels to be transferred through the terminal in the period.

For Victor Snabaitis Bomfim, CEO of Açu Petróleo, the renewal of the contract with Petrogal reaffirms the company’s differentials. “This partnership is very important for Açu Petróleo, as it increasingly encourages us to maintain our commitment to operational excellence and non-negotiable respect for the environment. Petrogal was the first company to operate VLCC vessels at our terminal. I am sure that this commitment, predictability and security that we offer in our operations, were key factors for this renewal ”.

“Petrogal is the third largest producer of oil and gas in Brazil and one of the world companies whose production registers a faster growth”, declared Miguel Pereira, CEO of Petrogal. “Brazil is our main development base and this requires reliable infrastructures, properly equipped in technological and environmental terms,”.

In operation since 2016, Açu Petróleo’s Petroleum Terminal (T-OIL) is 25 meters deep, has three berths and licensed capacity to deal with 1.2 million barrels of oil transfered per day. Since the beginning of operations, the terminal has carried out more than 95 transshipments. As it is the only private company in the country capable of receiving VLCC vessels, which has a storage capacity of up to 2 million barrels of crude oil. Circa 40% of transshipment operations are exported via VLCC vessels. “For this year, we expect to increase our operations, and double the volume transshiped in 2018. Also, we are developing a project for onshore tanking, which, in addition to providing an optimization in the oil handling logistics for our customers, will be able to offer new services, such as storage, dewatering and blending”, highlighted Bomfim. Petrobras, Shell and Equinor are also customers of Açu Petróleo.

After 3 years of operations at the Açu Port Complex, Açu Petróleo has reached another milestone: the 3 berths of the terminal, where oil transhipments are made, were occupied simultaneously with a Petrobras’ VLCC vessel in the north berth, and two other Shell’s vessels being operated in the central berth and south. This milestone proves the operational excellence of Açu Petróleo, which has high-level technology to carry out oil transshipment operations, furthermore, is the only Brazilian private terminal capable of receiving VLCC vessels, one of the largest vessel’s class in the world.