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(Rio de Janeiro, October 08, 2003). – PETRÓLEO BRASILEIRO S/A - PETROBRAS, [Bovespa: PETR3/PETR4, NYSE: PBR/PBRA, Latibex: XPBR/XPBRA], a Brazilian international energy company, announces on October 6, Petrobras' Downstream/Refining department set a new one-day record. It processed 1,795,278 barrels in the distillation units at its Brazilian refineries. This volume beat the previous record of 1,785,000 bpd processed on June 24, 1999.
The new record reflects ongoing improvement in the processes the units are using in their quest for operating excellence, enabling them to process throughput volumes reliably, without endangering people, equipment or the environment, but also without reducing profitability while at the same time demonstrating the reliability and strength with which the downstream logistics chain has been integrated.
The table below shows each downstream unit's contribution to this achievement.
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Contacts:
Petróleo Brasileiro
S.A – PETROBRAS
Investor Relations Department
Luciana
Bastos de Freitas Rachid – Executive Manager
E-mail:
petroinvest@petrobras.com.br
Av. República do
Chile, 65 - 4th floor
20031-912 – Rio de
Janeiro, RJ
(55-21) 2534-1510 / 2534-9947
This document may contain forecasts that merely reflect the expectations of the Company’s management. Such terms as “anticipate”, “believe”, “expect”, “forecast”, “intend”, “plan”, “project”, “seek”, “should”, along with similar or analogous expressions, are used to identify such forecasts. These predictions evidently involve risks and uncertainties, whether foreseen or not by the Company. Therefore, the future results of operations may differ from current expectations, and readers must not base their expectations exclusively on the information presented herein.
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/S/ José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo
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José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo
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