Projeto pegasus

solutions in automation
PEGASO Project - Petrobras

Commitment to environment preservation
Petrobras is committed to the sustainable development and promotes the most audacious environmental and operational safety program ever realized in Brazil he Petrobras Company wants to guarantee its own position as one of the companies in the world which most respect our environment. A real proof of that is the amount of more than one billion dollars that the company is investing on the PEGASO Project – Program of Excellence in Environmental Management and Occupational Safety (Programa de Excelência em Gestão Ambiental e Segurança Operacional), in the attempt to improve its environmental results and to reach the excellence on its operations, processes, products and services. The PEGASO is actually being considered as one of the most environmental and operational safety program which has ever been realized in Brazil. This program represents a decisive step towards the consolidation of the new business model inside Petrobras, which is committed to the sustainable development, as well as intends to include the company in the international world, with the presence on the main world markets, and the leadership inside the Latin-American industry. The program has started in the whole country in April 2000, in an effort which

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includes Petrobras strategy to reduce the emissions, residuals, effluents, as well as the improvement of the program of prevention and control of accidents on each and every Petrobras workshop, all over the five regions within the country. The PEGASO goal is to be concluded in 2003, and the first results already can be seen: all main pipelines of the company have already reached a high level of automation degree, showing the efforts which Petrobras has been doing on the prevention of accidents. Siemens has been chosen to supply the solutions in automation, and is the responsible for the modernization of many units. The use of a modular sy stem