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Care in the Transportation
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In order to transport
crude to the refineries and deliver its by-products to consumers,
Petrobras operates a lenghty pipeline network and the biggest
fleet of tankers in the southern hemisphere.
Tankers, tank-cars and tank-trucks, and a vast pipeline grid
carry petroleum products to storage or supply points from a
series of sea terminals.
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Movement of fuels in this way requires proper safeguard measures, which start when designing the new undertakings and are extended throughtout the operations.
Sea terminals are provided with special equipment (retention barriers, oil clean-up boats, oil traps etc.). During loading and unloading operations, carried by skilled personnel under permanent training, strict control and safeguard measures are adopted. Emergency teams are always on duty to cope with fortuitous circumstances.
Oil pollution fighting centers are installed in the main sea terminals, thus increasing safety in case of an emergency. In the municipality of São Sebastião, along the northern shore of the State of São Paulo, a model center has been set up to train Petrobras employees and those of other companies to fight fortuitous spills of crude or crude by-products promptly, applying special techniques.
The pipelines are submitted to frequent inspections, and are provided with safety devices, such as retaining valves, to prevent passage of oil in an abnormal situation. In order to give added protection to the community, pipelines crossing urban areas receive double prevention treatment at the designing and construction stages; the treatment applied exceeds even the standards that regulate this type of undertaking.
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