Pecem

Located 50KM from Fortaleza, Pecém is one of Ceara’s most important towns and now also hugely important to the whole country of Brazil due to its growing economic and energy powers.

The town itself, is charming with a lively feel to it, boosted by regular tourist trippers. With a residency close to 7,000 people, the town center is clean and attractive. Pecem has good infrastructure with all amenties needed including supermarket and internation cash machines, it has popular bars and a weekend nightclub which holds thousands. The beach is also of cause stunning and popular.

Here in Pecem, you see very little properties for sale, reason being, everyone here knows that this place is set to explode with property prices due the mass industrial expansion. Due to the industrial expansion of Pecem Port, located south of the town, the govenment has long since reserved all land from the south of the town. To the North of the town, is protected sand dunes. Basically this is a developers no go area, land cannot be bought. A beautiful popular town with an extreme increase of employment, with no possibility of housing growth, causing huge demand with very little suppy.

Pecém Off-Shore Industrial Port Complex is about to expand in a dynamic way, as Pecém grows into an industrial giant.

The Major Expansion includes;

REFINERY PREMIUM II
Value of the Investment: US$ 11,1 billion.
Generation of Jobs: 90,000 (indirect right-handers).
Capacity of processing: 300.000 oil barrels/day
Beginning of construction: december of 2009.
Beginning of operation: january of 2014.
Increase of 45% in the GDP of Ceara
Steel Mill Company of Pecém - CSP
Value of the Investment: US$ 6 billion.
Generation of jobs: 5.000 (right-handers)?.
Energy matrix: mineral coal.
Estimated Production: 5 million tons per year in steel plates.
Beginning of operation: 2012.
Increase of 4 % on the GDP of Ceara

MPX PECÉM THERMO PLANT
Beginning of Operation 1st phase: december/2009. Foundations already long started
Value of the investment: Phase 1 - US$ 1.4 billion (720 MW), Phase 2 - US$ 700 million (360 MW).
Generation of jobs: 2500 jobs right-handers during workmanship, 300 jobs right-handers when in operation.
Addition in the GDP of the state: US$ 2.5 billion in 3 years and 500 million/year.

FREE TRADE ZONE (ZPE)
Total area reserved: 5,000 ha.
The ZPE´s shelters companies benefited with tax exemption, under the condition of that they destine at least 80% of the production to external market.

ORE OF IRON
Research had detected good potential of ore of iron in the Ceará.
Potential of the deposits of the State can reach 200 million tons.
Main occurrences: Barroquinha, Sobral, Quiterianópolis, Tauá and Parambu.
Viability of exportation.

To conclude the mass industrial expansion, the Port tier of Pecem is to be expandanded in 5 stages;

1st Phase - US$ 145 Million - Conclusion 2010
Lengthen of 1.000 m length of the brake water, expanding for 2.770 m length
Construction of new 760 m length Pier, with 2 docking berths
342m length Expansion Terminal Entrance Bridge
Installation of a Crane Line
Construction of a retro area for a lunge yard with 87.000 M2

2nd Phase – US$ 70 Million – Conclusion 2010
Implanting a 9 Km length coal conveyor belt
Implantation of a continual coal unloading system to support the new Power Thermal Plant (see futher below)

3rd Phase – US$ 215 Million - Conclusion 2012
Implantation of a second 9Km length coal conveyor belt
Implantation of a 9Km length ore conveyor belt
Implantation of a continual ore unloading system
Construction of a 310m length exportation berth for steel blades
Implantation of a 2 steel blades loading system

4th Phase – US$ 302 Million - Conclusion 2014
Construction of the second 1.800 m length entrance bridge through the brakewater
Lengthen of 2.300m length brakewater
Construction of another berth with 380m of retro area
Construction of two new piers for oil tanker.

5th Phase - US$ 241 Million - Conclusion 2016
Installation of a new 9 km length ore conveyor belt
Implantation of a new continual ore unloading system
Implantation of a new continual coal unloading system
Implantation of a 4 new steel blades loading system
Construction of 2 new berths for steel blades exportation

The Extended Tier Completed outlook

MORE ABOUT THE MPX PECÉM THERMO PLANT
Brazil will add 1,080 megawatts (MW) of electric power in the Northeastern states of Ceará and Maranhão with the construction of two coal-fired power plants partly financed by the Inter-American Development Bank

The towns of Pecém (Ceara) and Itaqui (Maranhão) will add 720MW and 360MW, respectively, to the national grid by 2012 and are part of the Brazilian Government’s Growth Acceleration Program (PAC).

In approving the loans, the IDB sought to balance the dual objectives of meeting growing energy demand in its member countries while responsibly mitigating sources of climate change.

In order to meet anticipated demand, electricity supplies in Brazil need to grow by about 4,500MW per year, according to government estimates. These new plants, which will sell energy to 32 distribution companies that have a combined client base of more than 158 million people, will make a substantial contribution to this goal.

Fossil fuels make up a comparatively small part of Brazil’s energy matrix, thanks to a system of hydroelectric facilities that supplies 84 percent of the country’s electricity and an ethanol industry that produces around 40 percent of its transportation fuel. However, these renewable sources make Brazil vulnerable to drought, so the government has been working to diversify its energy matrix to guarantee security, reliability and affordability of the supply of electricity.

As a condition for the IDB’s participation in each project, the sponsors agreed to develop and implement a Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Plan. The plan will include the construction of renewable energy projects to offset approximately 10 percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions produced by the Pecém I and Itaqui plants. Under the plan, these renewable power projects will meet the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change eligibility criteria for carbon offsets.

The project that started the construction in November 2008 plans to be completed in 2012. You can read more about this and follow the work progression from this link here on the MPX official website.