Simultaneously to the 15th edition of Rio Oil & Gas, the main oil and gas event in Latin America, organized by the Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute – IBP, from September 13th to 16th, 2010 at Riocentro – Rio de Janeiro, which received 46 thousand visitors from 51 countries in a 37 thousand square meter large exhibition, CTDUT performed, with great success, the CTDUT WEEK, with the purpose of carrying on technical demonstrations.

This year we had the presentations of Tyco – Stopaq – Volvo – Liderroll and A-hak companies, which presented the field functionality of their  equipment to   customers and partners in the oil and gas segment.

Conscious of its social and environmental responsibility, CTDUT took the initiative of compensating all the greenhouse gas emission produced by the tests carried out during the CTDUT  WEEK, making this a neutral event in terms of environmental  pollution.

The procedure of carbon sequestration through the planting of rubber trees, made by the Rubber Technological Institute – IteB, was chosen for this compensation. This choice was based on the fact that in addition to sequester around 540 kg of carbon per  adult tree, considering stem, root and shoot, the rubber tree offers additional advantages of reducing emissions that would be generated in the production of synthetic rubber, increasing the  availability of natural rubber and fostering the creation of jobs for sap extraction.

Each adult tree is productive for approximately 40 years, keeping the unskilled labor in the countryside and offering these people an alternative of paid work. According to studies made by ITeB, the natural rubber is the second agricultural product of higher negative importance in the Brazilian Trade Balance (Brazil imports around 70% of the 345 thousand tons consumed annually) and a strong and growing consumption increase of this commodity is  noticeable in the natural rubber world market, well above its production curve, with projections reaching deficit levels from 2, 5 to 4, 0 million tons in 2030. 

 The presentations were attended by companies and institutions like: Petrobras, Transpetro, Termorio, Asel-Tech, Westlock, Tecline, Comgás, Interfibra, Tracbel, Bereau Veritas, Interfibra, CEG, Joplas, Glastec, Uniduto, JPTE, Mascol, Microlins, Coopetroleo, Diefood, Pipeconsult, Sondotécnica, Galvão Contreras, IMC Saste, Unesa, AGR Field Operaties, Braskem, IEC, Lupatech and Nova Tenco.

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