Pará Gas strengthens team with benchmarking in Sergipe and projects the future of natural gas in Pará

The Gas Company of Pará (GdP) sent representatives from the administrative, financial, and bidding departments for a series of technical visits to the headquarters of Sergipe Gas (Sergas) in Aracaju this week. The exchange of experiences is another step in GdP's benchmarking campaign, preparing the Company for the challenges of 2026, including the arrival of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) in the Metropolitan Region of Belém.

The GdP delegation, consisting of eight professionals, understood the administrative and logistical processes of the hosts, as well as the different dynamics of natural gas in the Brazilian Northeast. The meeting presented projects and discussions about the challenges for the future in the North region, where the energy transition process is advancing, seeking environmental sustainability and economic productivity.

“By valuing and qualifying our employees through benchmarking, they assume a sense of belonging to the Company, and from that, we all grow together. The exchange was an opportunity to share experiences with a consolidated company that has been operating for over three decades in natural gas distribution and has already established itself in several segments where our GdP will advance, such as vehicular natural gas, as well as in serving residential and commercial customers, stages we hope to achieve next year and in the following years,” emphasizes the president of the Gas Company of Pará, Flexa Ribeiro, recalling that there was another exchange in September, in benchmarking at the headquarters of Cigás, the Gas Company of Amazonas.

“It is the natural growth, as all gas companies in the Northeast have experienced: supply for industries, vehicular natural gas, commercial points, residential. And then it is about disseminating gas through the urban pipeline network,” highlights the administrative and financial manager of the Gas Company of Pará, Jaime Isensee.

The administrative dynamics and internal and external flows also guided the meeting in Sergipe, as the exchange should optimize GdP's management processes. “We are implementing the same enterprise management system, ERP, that Sergas had already implemented before. We then took the team to see their processes, understand solutions within the system, and share experiences,” points out Isensee, recalling that this is also a strategic vision for the future. “Our team is young: some have three years, two years, a year and a half, so it was good for them to get to know a well-established natural gas company, with a large operation, for over thirty years in the market. This vision of the future, of ‘I am you tomorrow,’ opens the eyes of our team here to how to get there ahead,” adds the administrative and financial manager.

In addition to supplying the industrial sector, the Natural Gas Distribution System (SDGN) of the Gas Company of Pará will soon also serve the operations of two thermoelectric plants to be inaugurated: the UTE Novo Tempo Barcarena Thermoelectric Complex, in the final testing phase, and the UTE Portocém, which will be one of the largest thermoelectric plants in Brazil, also under construction in Barcarena. The next step for GdP is to serve automotive consumers, with the arrival of compressed natural gas, CNG, in 2026, at fuel stations in the Metropolitan Region of Belém.