Transpetro conducts integrated operation in Rio Grande do Sul

Largest fuel transportation and Logistics Company in Brazil and subsidiary of the Petrobras System, Transpetro recently conducted an unprecedented operation of naphtha transportation from Terminal Almirante Soares Dutra (Tedut), in Osorio (RS), to a Braskem unit, in Triunfo (RS). The operation was conducted in an integrated action with Refinery Alberto Pasqualini (Refap), owned by Petrobras and with reduced use of refinery tankage, allowing for more solid delivery logistics with greater operating efficiency.

Transpetro’s operation of transporting 100 thousand m³ of naphtha has been a well-tended success. The company’s president Sergio Machado said that the operation was possible due to its meticulous control of the Oscan 16” II and Orsul 14” oil pipes pumping capacity, associated to monitoring of the Refap and the Braskem petrochemical pole’s tankage availability.

The analysis consists of integrated work of logistics intelligence, led by Transpetro, involving its National Operating Control Center (CNCO), the Refinery Alberto Pasqualini (Refap) and the petrochemical Braskem.

Sergio Machado added that the prior study enabled the operation to use only one tank of the refinery, during a shorter period. Instead of the need to storing material while waiting for availability of pipes, the unit acted as a kind of lung, directly transferring material between oil pipes, which could operate simultaneously, always keeping the highest safety standards.

The integrated vision of the infrastructure for oil and oil products distribution across the entire national territory, and tools such as CNCO, put Transpetro in a privileged condition, allowing it to implement new solutions, and restating the Company’s status as main provider of logistic solutions for the Petrobras System.