Brazil Opens Largest
Pipeline In South America
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday
inaugurated the largest gas pipeline in
South America.
The 1.38-billion-U.S. dollar Cabiunas-Reduc
III pipeline was built and will be operated
by state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras.
According to the company, the 179-km
pipeline can transport 40 million cubic
meters of natural gas a day, the highest
capacity among the gas pipelines in the
country and higher than that of the
Bolivia-Brazil gas pipeline, which can
deliver 30 million cubic meters per day.
In order to avoid damage to vegetation,
Petrobras built a 3.5-km tunnel under the
Santana Mountain.
Petrobras said the new pipeline boosts both
the country's supply flexibility and
transportation capacity to meet the needs of
the southeastern region, which has the
biggest demand for natural gas in Brazil.
With the pipeline, Brazil's natural gas
transportation network reaches 9,217 km in
length, up from 5,398 km at the beginning of
the Lula administration in 2003. |
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