Overview

• Authorities are maintaining the interdiction while conducting forensic tests linked to diesel cargoes totaling about 91 million liters seized under Operation Cadeia de Carbono.
• The contingency plan raises output at Petrobras’s Reduc refinery and adds roughly 200 tanker trucks per day to haul product from São Paulo.
• A 24-hour IBP situation room is tracking deliveries in real time to avoid shortages for both retail and industrial consumers.
• ANP cited suspected irregularities at Refit, including questionable fuel classification, use of storage tanks without authorization and possible tax-reducing import practices.
• Refit denies wrongdoing, calls the action arbitrary and says it will pursue legal steps to overturn the shutdown.