The state oil company has traded since 2023 the resumption of asset control in Bahia and Sergipe that today are operated by Unigel
Executive Director of Industrial Processes and Products, William France, said on Thursday (27.FEV.2025) that the state oil company is close to resuming Camaçari (BA) and orange (SE) (SE) fafens (fertilizer factories). Currently, factories are operated by.
In conversation with journalists, the executive stated that the negotiations with petrochemistry have advanced, but that the business still depends on an economic and financial analysis of the assets. The business model is not closed either.
“We are talking to Unigel and evaluating internally. Any decision goes through a technical-financial assessment. We understand that we are close to closing an agreement to return to the two plants [Bahia e Sergipe]. How will it be? We are closing, still need to pass the advice. We are accelerating this project, but I talk again, always ensuring the economic and financial viability ”said France.
The fafens of Camaçari and Laranjeiras were projects from Petrobras that came into operation in 2013 and together have sufficient capacity to meet 14% of the national demand of Ureia.
The plants presented deficient results from 2013 to 2017 and were paralyzed in 2018. In the government of the former president (PL), the factories were leased to Unigel.
However, the plants continued to hurt after the lease. With this, Unigel The two fertilizer factories in the 2nd semester of 2023. It claimed damage and lack of profitability. Now companies negotiate with Petrobras a return of assets.
Regarding the ANSA (Araucaria Nitrogenas), in Araucaria (PR), France stated that Petrobras began maintenance programmed so that the plant could resume its production in May this year.
