The project, to be executed under Petrobras’s responsibility, also includes a second section that will integrate the Tiete-Parana waterway to the Paulinia terminal.
The ethanol pipeline is part of the Ethanol Exports Corridor, which starts at the Senador Canedo terminal, in the state of Goias, and goes through Uberaba, in the state of Minas Gerais, and Ribeirao Preto, Paulinia and Guararema, in the state of Sao Paulo.
Petrobras noted that, from the Guararema terminal, the pipeline extends to the Sao Sebastiao terminal, on the northern coast of Sao Paulo and to the Ilha d’Agua terminal, in Rio de Janeiro, via the already existing Osrio polyduct, which will now be used solely to transport ethanol.
Around its main trunk, between Paulinia and Guararema, the ethanol pipeline will be capable of transporting up to 12 million cubic meters of ethanol per year, with some four million via the Ilha d’Agua terminal and eight million through the Sao Sebastiao terminal.
Petrobras said that it will place this ethanol pipeline at the market’s disposal as a transportation service, allowing for efficient ethanol shipment to the country’s export harbors.
