Brazil

Hospitals across the jungle city of Manaus, Brazil, were reported to have run out of oxygen early last year, sending Covid-19 death rates and case numbers soaring.

A joint venture between major industry players BP, Siemens, SPIC Brasil and Prumo Logística to generate energy for six million households via a liquefied natural gas (LNG)-fuelled power plant has received authorisation to begin operations.

The new Covid-19 wave is putting more pressure on medical oxygen demand supplies in South America, as new virus variants are more infectious and the vaccination efforts progress slowly due to a lack of vaccines...

As Covid cases and deaths increased rapidly, the Brazilian hospital system is under serious stress.

Messer Americas has increased its carbon dioxide (CO2) supply capabilities for industrial gas customers in the South, Southeast and Midwest regions of Brazil to meet growing demands.

More than $200,000 in concentrated oxygen and personal oxygen concentrator devices have been sent to the Amazon regions of Brazil and Peru to help the fight against Covid-19.

Two weeks since Manaus hit the headlines for its tragic scenes of Covid casualties and dire oxygen shortages, gasworld understands the situation remains grave in the Brazilian city.

Widespread media reports suggest that hospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached ‘breaking point’ in their treatment of growing numbers of Covid-19 patients, as oxygen shortages take hold in the region.

Bayer has launched a new carbon initiative that will reward farmers in Brazil and the US for implementing carbon capture and sequestration technologies in order to help agriculture reduce its carbon footprint and greenhouse gas...

Messer Brazil has supplied high-quality medical gases to a hospital in Belo Horizonte treating Covid-19 patients.