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This excerpt taken from the PBR 6-K filed Jun 11, 2008. Downstream Investments in the Northeast Rio de Janeiro, June 10 2008 – PETRÓLEO BRASILEIRO S/A - PETROBRAS, [Bovespa: PETR3/PETR4, NYSE: PBR/PBRA, Latibex: XPBR/XPBRA, BCBA: APBR/APBRA], a Brazilian international energy company, announces that decided to deploy its 12th refinery in the state of Rio Grande Norte. This refinery will have a new plant to produce gasoline and to improve the quality of the other oil products, such as Jet fuel, Diesel, and LPG. This new unit will go online in 2010. Additionally, a meeting was held today with representatives of the State of Ceará Government, in which PETROBRAS manifested its intention to study, together with the State, the possibility of installing a Premium refinery with capacity for 300,000 bpd. The refinery’s first operation phase is scheduled to start in 2014. PETROBRAS and the Government of the State of Ceará will study the terms of a Memorandum of Understandings to be signed in no more than 120 days to establish the initial premises for the Parts’ performance in project implementation.
www.petrobras.com.br/ri/english  This document may contain forecasts that merely reflect the expectations of the Company’s management. Such terms as “anticipate”, “believe”, “expect”, “forecast”, “intend”, “plan”, “project”, “seek”, “should”, along with similar or analogous expressions, are used to identify such forecasts. These predictions evidently involve risks and uncertainties, whether foreseen or not by the Company. Therefore, the future results of operations may differ from current expectations, and readers must not base their expectations exclusively on the information presented herein. SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: June 10, 2008
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