“My visits to Brazil while working with Petrobras on projects for Akzo Nobel where very productive. In those days we were not yet concerned about floods or global warming, we were focused on Catalysts and the petroleum refining process…See video below to see how times have changed.”
Brazil is currently the world’s largest producer and exporter of beef, having overtaken the United States in 2025 with an estimated 26.23 billion pounds of production. The largest meatpacker in Brazil (and the world) is JBS S.A., which handles roughly 30% of the country’s cattle. The top producing state within Brazil is Mato Grosso.
There are two aspects to Brazil. One being oil the other being agriculture and farming.
It takes roughly 1,800 to 2,000 gallons of water to produce a single pound of beef. For a whole cow raised to a slaughter weight of 1,200 pounds (yielding about 500 lbs of edible beef), this translates to approximately 900,000 to 1 million gallons of water over its lifetime.
“I did work for Petrobras because of my connections with Akzo Nobel.”
“It was a research place which worked on catalysts process. We tried to develop a new process. I was not paid by them, I was paid by their partner Akzo Nobel”
