Petroleo Ipiranga
The firm's headquarters in Porto Alegre
Empresas Petróleo Ipiranga is a petroleum company in Brazil, with headquarters in Porto Alegre. The company is listed on the financial index IBOVESPA. The company is part of the group Ultrapar.
Petróleo Ipiranga has worked in the oil production, has refineries and sells crude oil, natural gas and similar petrochemical products to its customers in Central and South America.
The company was founded in 1933 in Uruguaiana, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, under the company name Destilaria Rio de Gran Dense Petóleo S / A.
At Empresas Petróleo Ipiranga also includes the subsidiaries:
- Companhia Brasileira Petróleo Ipiranga
- Ipiranga Petroquímica
- Ipiranga Química
- Empresa Carioca de Produtos Químicos
- Petróleo Ipiranga Refinaria S / A
- Distribuidora de Petróleo Ipiranga Produtos S / A
Etymologically, the name Ipiranga Indian origin. In the language of the Tupi he means Red River, composed of y ( river) and Pirang (red).