(WO) – Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned oil firm, achieved report manufacturing at its refineries in September 2024. The Complete Utilization Issue (FUT) of its refineries reached 96.8%, the very best month-to-month determine this yr, in line with the corporate.
Within the third quarter of 2024, Petrobras recorded a median FUT of 95.2%. This era additionally noticed a major improve within the processing of pre-salt oil, which made up 73% of the whole load within the distillation models.
Moreover, gasoline manufacturing hit a brand new excessive with 6.38 million cubic meters produced throughout the quarter. Asphalt manufacturing additionally surged, reaching 803,000 tons, with report month-to-month outputs on the Reduc refinery (32,000 tons) and Repar refinery (51,000 tons) in September.
Petrobras credit the outcomes to modernization initiatives, asset reliability, course of optimization, and the implementation of progressive applied sciences.