Petrobras Biofuels delivered its first commercial load of biodiesel produce on Friday. The shipment, of 44,780 litres left Candeias Mill, in Bahia, the first biodiesel mill built by the state-owned company in the country.
The new delivery is part of the production sold in biodiesel auctions promoted by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuel Agency (ANP). In all, sales totalled 8 million litres of biodiesel.
Candeias mill has a capacity for production of 57 million litres of biodiesel per year.
Petrobras Biofuel also has another biodiesel mill in the city of Quixadá, in Ceará, and a third mill in Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais. The third is still in the final assembly stages.
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