Ipiranga (company)

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Ipiranga

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Seat Porto Alegre , BrazilBrazilBrazil 
Branch mineral oil
Website www.ipiranga.com.br

Ipiranga is a mineral oil company from Brazil with headquarters in Porto Alegre . The company is part of the Ultrapar group of companies .

Ipiranga is active in the oil production, owns refineries and sells oil, natural gas and similar petrochemical products to its customers in Central and South America.

The company was in 1933 in Uruguaiana , in the state of Rio Grande do Sul , under the name Destilaria Rio de Gran Dense Petóleo S / A founded.

The Ipiranga company also includes the following subsidiaries:

  • Companhia Brasileira Petróleo Ipiranga
  • Ipiranga Petroquímica
  • Ipiranga Química
  • Empresa Carioca de Produtos Químicos
  • Refinaria Petróleo Ipiranga S / A
  • Distribuidora de Produtos Petróleo Ipiranga S / A

Etymologically, the name Ipiranga is of Indian origin. In the Tupi language it means red river , composed of y (river) and pirang (red).

Footnotes

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro: Método moderno de tupi antigo. A língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos . Editora Global, São Paulo 3rd edition 2005. ISBN 85-260-1058-1 . P. 42.