Petrobras Buys Vale Fertilizer Plant in Brazil

摘要

Petrobras announced December 19 that it paid US$234 million to buy Vale's "Araucária Nitrogenados" fertilizer plant in Araucária, Paraná, Brazil. "The Araucária Nitrogenados plant is capable of producing 700,000 tons per year (kta) of urea, 475 kta of ammonia and 450,000 m3/year of Arla 32," according to Petrobras. "The raw material used is asphalt residue, which is supplied by the Presidente Getúlio Vargas Refinery (REPAR), in Araucária.