Petrobras' REGAP Refinery Plans Maintenance Shutdowns for the Next Four Years

CORDOBA, ARGENTINA--June 24, 2008--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Petrobras' (NYSE:PBR) refinery REGAP (Refinaria Gabriel Passos), located in the Minas Gerais state of Brazil, will have a major maintenance shutdown at the delayed-coking, diesel-hydrotreament and hydrogen-generation units by the end of August 2008. These maintenance shutdowns will last 30 days. The main work will be performed at the diesel-hydrotreament unit, during which two of the reactor's catalysts will be changed. This unit has a 22,000-barrel-per-day capacity and has been processing since 2005.