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New Downstream Director
Paulo Roberto Costa graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Universidade Federal do Paraná in 1976 and specialized in Off-shore Engineering at Petrobras. He has been Managing Director of TBG-Transportadora Brasileira Gasoduto Bolívia Brasil since April 2003. From January 2001 to April 2003, he was General Manager for Logistics at Petrobras’s Natural Gas Segment. He was Director of Petrobrás Gás S.A.-GASPETRO from May 1999 to December 2000.
In 1995 he was promoted to General Manager of E&P Sul (Southern Brazil Exploration and Production), with responsibility for the Santos and Pelotas basins. In 1996 he became general manager for Logistics in the E&Parea. From May 1987 to 1999 he headed up the Gas Segment, responsible for commercialization of natural gas.
From 1979 to 1994 he worked on platform installation and production development at the Campos basin in the areas of Engineering, Support Management and as Superintendent of the Southeastern Production Region.
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Petróleo Brasileiro S.A – PETROBRAS
Investor
Relations Department
Raul Adalberto de Campos– Executive
Manager
E-mail: petroinvest@petrobras.com.br
Av.
República do Chile, 65 - 4th floor
20031-912 – Rio
de Janeiro, RJ
(55-21) 2534-1510 / 2534-9947
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José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo
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