TIER 3 RESPONSE FOR SOUTH AMERICA
ABSTRACT As an integral part of the new investment plan for the improvement of the Company'S environmental management capacity, Petrobras has set up then Environmental Defense Centers throughout important Brazilian regions. The Centers are endowed with ca. R$133 million investment for facilities and gear, and ca. R$ 65 million are to be devoted to operations and maintenance for one-year period. These Defense Centers are capable of facing the main emergencies that may spring out of oil and oil by-product spills. Together, they make up South America'S first environmental safety complex, a system that is fully capable of even providing services to other companies, thus foreseeing a demand that will certainly come through as oil E&P activities in the region grow.