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In the 56th edition of Petrobras Magazine, you will see that Petrobras’ performance in the energy field has been as important as its commitment to the environment and social responsibility. In these areas, the company has outstanding projects.

In the energy field, Petrobras has worked hard and now can celebrate the coming onstream of platforms P-53 and P-51, whose construction, with 70% of materials and services acquired in Brazil, created jobs and income in the country and revitalized the Brazilian shipbuilding industry. This subject is described in the article “A Boost for Development.” The company has also increased its drilling activities in onshore wells with the objective of increasing land-based production by 30%. Details are presented in the piece “Onshore Drilling”. In addition, Petrobras is seeking technological solutions to produce oil and gas in the pre-salt layer located along the Brazilian coastline. The article “One Challenge after Another” details the new realities the company will have to face.

Regarding the environment, Petrobras, preoccupied with climate change being experienced on the planet, brought together company and overseas specialists in an international seminar to discuss the reduction of global warming by means of the capture and geological storage of CO2 and by the use of clean fuels. More information about this can be found in the article “Global Warming.” Complementing the efforts in this area is Petrobras’ unprecedented experiment of the capture of carbon dioxide to be carried out in 2009 in the Shale Industrialization Unit, known as SIX, at a demonstration level in a prototype Catalytic Fluid Cracking Unit. The experiment is described in detail in the article “Pioneering at SIX.”

Also with an environmental concern, Petrobras Biocombustível is committed to producing clean energy and quality of life, thanks to its goals of winning a relevant position in the Brazilian biofuel market and exporting ethanol to the major consumer markets. It is also committed to creating employment opportunities and income in the rural areas by means of partnerships with agricultural families who will cultivate oleaginous plants which will serve as raw materials for the Petrobras biodiesel plants. This is all related by the company president, Alan Kardec Pinto, in the piece “An Environmental and Social Marketing Commitment.”

Finally, Petrobras demonstrates its commitment to social responsibility and to culture, by sponsoring music, dance, theater, the circus, informatics, and shiatsu workshops of the NGO AfroReggae Cultural Group in the slums Vigário Geral, Cantagalo, Parada de Lucas, Complexo do Alemão, and Nova Era, in Rio de Janeiro, as well as a TV program of the group on the Multishow channel; by financing the Waly Salomão Cultural Center, projected by the group and currently under construction in Vigário Geral; and by contracting bands of the group to perform in events overseas. The participants total thousands of young people, as you can see in the article “Citizenship Rescued.”

This is the news in this edition. Enjoy your reading!