Petrobras buys $128M stake in Brazil's BSBIOS Biodiesel

In Brazil, Petrobras acquired a 50 percent stake in the BSBIOS Indústria e Comércio de Biodiesel Sul Brasil biodiesel plant, located in Rio Grande do Sul, for $128 million. The plant has a capacity of 42 million gallons.

Last week, the Digest reported that Petrobras is currently re-thinking its five-year investment strategy to take into consideration the government’s requirement that it increase its ethanol production to fill 12% of national demand from the current 5%. That investment is likely to come in the form of greenfield ethanol plants despite the significant capital expense involved.