Brazil's state-owned oil and gas conglomerate Petrobras on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chinese oil giant PetroChina to assess the technical and economic feasiblity of launching ethanol production projects in Brazil.
According to the document, projects of ethanol production in Brazil would be developed in partnership between PetroChina and
Petrobras'subsidiary, Petrobras Biofuels (PBio).
Meanwhile, other projects aimed at exporting Brazilian ethanol to China could be carried out through cooperation between PetroChina and Petrobras.
Petrobras said PetroChina deems the Brazilian company a natural partner for such ventures, thanks to their "excellent" trade relationship and because of anticipated synergies between the two companies.