Brazil
Main Subsidiaries
Get to know our group's companies, which perform in an integrated manner
to ensure quality customer service. A lot of our services concentrate
on the operating activities of the following subsidiaries.
Transpetro
Transpetro, Petrobras Transporte S.A., undertakes oil and derivatives, ethanol, biofuels, and natural gas transportation and storage activities. It is in charge of more than 11,000 kilometers of pipelines - among oil pipelines and gas pipelines - which interconnect all Brazilian regions and supply the country's most remote points.
In addition to the pipeline network, there are also terminals and a fleet of oil tankers, joining forces with Petrobras' production, refining, and distribution areas and performing in oil and derivatives, biofuels, and natural gas imports and exports. In addition to Petrobras, the main customer, Transpetro also provides services to several distributors and to the petrochemical industry.
Petrobras Distribuidora
Petrobras Distribuidora operates in the distribution, trade and industrialization of oil products and derivatives, in addition to in imports and exports. On the Brazilian streets and roads, the company has upwards of 7,000 service stations, the biggest service station network in Brazil.
The subsidiary has more than 10,000 major customers, among industries, thermoelectric plants, aviation companies and light- and heavy-duty vehicle fleets. It has been signing-on partnerships to deploy natural gas-fueled thermoelectric power units and programs to optimize product use in respect for the environment.
Petroquisa
Petrobras Química S.A. - Petroquisa - works with Petrobras in the chemical and petrochemical areas. It holds stakes in corporations involved in manufacturing, trade, distributing, transporting, importing and exporting chemical and petrochemical industry products, to providing technical and administrative services related to these industries, and can also exploit these activities directly.
The holding company is present in three Brazilian petrochemical poles by holding equity stakes in companies that produce (from naphtha, the oil byproduct the petrochemical industry uses as feedstock) base petrochemical products (ethane, propene, benzene, etc.), raw materials the second-generation industries use to manufacture other products (plastics, rubber, etc.) leading industries, in turn, use to make products for public consumption (packages, tires, etc.).
Petrobras Biocombustível
Created in 2008, the subsidiary is in charge of developing ethanol and biodiesel production and management projects.
In the ethanol segment, the company created a business model the policy of which is to seek for partnerships with international companies that hold markets for exports and with Brazilian ethanol producers who are already performing in the sector.
Petrobras Biocombustível has three plants producing biodiesel: in Candeias (state of Bahia), in Quixadá (state of Ceará), and in Montes Claros (state of Minas Gerais), and it holds 50% stakes in a plant in the municipality of Marialva (state of Paraná). Together, they have a total production capacity of 500 million liters/year. The feedstock for these plants will come, prioritarily, from family farming, generating jobs and income in the farmland, always in search of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Gaspetro
Gaspetro is directly related to the enhancement of the natural gas supply nationwide. From Corumbá - near the Bolivia-Brazil borderline - to the city of Uruguaiana, in Rio Grande do Sul, the company counts on a gas pipeline network, belonging to Petrobras, that ranges for more than 7,000 kilometers.
This network runs under the Brazilian soil, crossing through states and taking natural gas, via state distributing companies, to homes, industries, plants, and automotive vehicles. It also allows the company to operate in another important segment: telecommunications. A service that uses cutting-edge technology and is required by major companies all over the world.