Trascription of Eduardo Falabella – Chemical Engineer

Eduardo Falabella says: What challenges does a chemistry professional come up against? A chemical engineer in this new area known as biofuels? In fact, a chemical engineer needs a lot of knowledge. A chemical engineer needs do know mathematics very well, he obviously needs to know chemistry very well, he needs to know processes, unit operations, thermodynamics, kinetics, many areas of knowledge. And more than that: chemical engineers, particularly researchers, must study all the time. They cannot stop. Chemical engineers can, finally, work like I do, in research, developing these processes. I am involved in developing biofuels. Second generation biofuels. The fuels that are formed from biomass refuse, in other words, everything I no longer want from the biomass. For example, sugarcane bagasse, sugarcane straw, rice shells, all of that will be gasified and used to make new fuel, a new biodiesel. Why am I at Petrobras? And why have I been at Petrobras for twenty five years? Because I am satisfied at this company, very satisfied! It gives me all of the opportunities to do what I always wanted to do: create, develop, achieve. My mission is to try to help Petrobras achieve something I consider as sublime: grow sustainably. Do not enter this company seeking success. Enter it seeking to achieve. Success will be a mere consequence.