Petrobras’ executives commented on Brazilian oil gas industry’s opportunities for foreign companies at Brazil-Texas Chamber of Commerce’s (Bratecc) event in Houston, USA.
At this year’s event called “Oil&Gas in Brazil: Scenarios and Opportunities”, Paulo Sergio Rodrigues Alonso, an advisor to Petrobras’ CEO spoke about providing solutions for technological bottlenecks in domestic industry.
P aulo Sergio Rodrigues Alonso said: “ We want to encourage local content on a sustainable and competitive footing.”
He said that there is a list of opportunities for both manufacturers and service providers, which will be able to work in partnership with Brazilian suppliers.
Alonso also spoke of opportunities that will arise with regard to critical imported equipment and services required for the floating production, storage and offloading facilities (FPSOs) that will operate between 2020 and 2030. “We need to develop new suppliers of offshore cranes, chemical injection units, vacuum sewer facilities, navigation systems, dynamic positioning solutions, propulsion systems, valves, pipes and connections, among other things,” he said.
Alonso further added that Petrobras needs to make its investments with rigor and efficiency: “The company is hiring companies with proven experience in implementing projects (such as platforms), and it has been working with feasible local content requirements, seeking to relentlessly promote technological development and domestic engineering.”
At the same event, Petrobras’ executive manager for exploration and production services, Cristina Pinho , spoke about Petrobras Logística de E&P (PB-LOG), the company established to provide support services for Petrobras and its partners in the fields operated by the company.
The executive manager also presented Petrobras’ Logistics Operations Excellence Program, implemented along vessel routes in the Santos and Campos basins. She said that this program has enabled Petrobras to optimize the number of fleet visits, increase the punctuality of deliveries by 20% and cut the vessel journey cycle time by 30%. Pinho said that the same program will be implemented for the company’s helicopter fleet.
During her speech, she also gave an overview of the volume of operations and resources managed by the company in its offshore operations in the Campos and Santos basins, where it has 144 support vessels that transport around 388,000 metric tons of cargo per month. To transport personnel, 9,000 flights are taken every month, using 101 helicopters, for 93,571 passengers. The company also has eight aerodromes to support its operations, Pinho concluded.
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