INVESTMENTS AND INITIATIVES

The list of challenges and the respective startups selected to jointly develop the technologies is presented below.

Challenge Startup

Innovation Ecosystem

2019

Compact technologies for CO2 separation and capture to operate at offshore structures. Reduce costs and increase the efficiency of CO2 capture and reinjection processes in offshore structures.

2020 Identification and quantification of steam losses in heated systems.

We participate in the Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Reap). In 2020, MIT selected Rio de Janeiro to participate in this Program that involves universities, companies, government, entrepreneurs, and venture capital investors. The purpose of the initiative is to develop a methodology for structuring and governance of the first energy and sustainability innovation ecosystem (iEcossistema) in the world.

The program started in June 2021, involving all regions that are part of the Program’s Cohort 8: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Egypt, Northern Ireland (UK), Los Angeles (USA), Manizales (Colombia), and Wallonia (Belgium).

2020

Reduction of Greenhouse Gases emissions (CO2 and methane) of Petrobras’ processes and operations with greater efficiency and lower costs.

2021

Reduction of CAPEX, footprint (occupied area by the processing unit) and Greenhouse Gas Inventory through the prediction of potential optimizations in a process plant with All Electric configuration conceived by concepts of combined cycle, deep-water capture, among others.

MOTTA, SOUTO E DAMASCENO SISTEMAS LTDA

2022

2022

Develop a system with a responsive and user-friendly platform, for the purchase of biomethane from different certified producers, using Blockchain technology, as a reliable, auditable, marketing support tool, with product quality tracking integrated with a billing process, with emission reduction certifying agencies integrated in this Ecosystem to obtain the carbon credit through the system so that the process of capturing value by the agents can become more agile and efficient.

2022 Catalyze supply chain development of residual grease raw materials.

Condeports Invest

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Expected to last until May 2023, the program provides for the proposition and implementation of initiatives to accelerate entrepreneurship in the region, such as: mapping the energy and sustainability innovation ecosystem of Rio de Janeiro; creation of the EnergINN training program (focused on training and pre-incubation of researchers, university students and/or corporate professionals with the aim of generating innovations and largescale enterprises for the energy and sustainability sectors); In January 2023, we signed a protocol for the creation of the Rio Energy Bay Institute and the beginning of discussions on its integration with the Centro de Energia e Finanças do Amanhã (Center for Energy and Finance of Tomorrow), of the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Government. The Institute brings together different segments of society to transform the Rio de Janeiro region into Brazil’s first world-class innovation ecosystem in the energy and sustainability segment.