Brasco contracts with Statoil and Total

 

Brasco has signed contracts with Statoil and Total to support oil exploration and production activities in the Santos Basin.

The agreements provide for port logistics support services, stock control and cargo handling, pipeline and equipment storage, waste management and segregation, and tank cleaning, among others, at the Brasco in Caju, Rio de Janeiro bases. , and in Niterói, in the Guanabara Bay.

The agreement with the Norwegian company aims to support its exploratory campaign in block BM-S-8, where are the discoveries of Carcará and Guanxuma.

Brasco is loading Seadrill’s West Saturn rig with materials to be leased. It is expected that the activities will extend until October of this year.

Statoil already uses the infrastructure of the logistics company to support its work in the Peregrino field, in the Campos Basin.

The contract with the French oil company initially aims to meet the logistics associated with the FPSO Cidade de Caraguatatuba, in the Lapa field, whose operation was recently undertaken by Total.

The duration of the contract will be eight months, but there is the possibility of extension before the prospect of beginning the campaign of development of the area later this year.

Brasco also supports Queiroz Galvão Exploration and Production (QGEP) in the Atlanta field, where the Petrojarl I FPSO is being installed, with the first oil forecast for this quarter.

The executive director of the company, Gilberto Cardarelli, says that the operational routine implemented in its support bases has been a determining factor for the choice of private oil companies.

Examples include a real-time stock control and load handling system and an automatic blasting technology used in your tube stock that reduces the risk of worker accidents.

“We have achieved a level of international excellence unprecedented in Brazil,” says the executive.

 

Source: Brasil Energia Magazine