Petrobras plans to launch, later this year, tenders for support vessels. The company plans to contract 38 vessels by 2025, including the 12 PSV type ships (Platform Support and Supply Boat) that appear in the tender launched by the company at the end of March. The expected investment should reach US$ 2.5 billion. In addition to PSVs, the new tenders will also include vessels of the types OSRVs (Oil Spill Combat Boat) and RSVs (Support Boat for Remotely Operated Vehicles).
The president of Petrobras, Jean Paul Prates, said that the tenders should not have mandatory minimum local content targets, but assured that will bring conditions that will be favorable to contracting the national naval industry. “These forms of contracting are inductive to local content and not necessarily compulsory,” he declared. According to Petrobras, there is an expectation that rates between 40% and 70% of local content will be achieved. “The idea is to create conditions to make life easier for suppliers”, added the president of the state-owned company. The completion of the tenders launched this year is scheduled for 2028. The tenders that will go to the market in 2025 will have a deadline for the vessels to start operating in 2030.
Director Carlos Travassos stated that delivery deadlines will be adjusted according to the industry’s capacity. Furthermore, he highlighted that the duration of the contracts will be sufficient to guarantee attractiveness in the market. “Through the circularization law, the capacity, the deadline that is being set, which are compatible with the needs of Petrobras, there is a tendency for these vessels to be manufactured in Brazil, through the vocation and availability of the Brazilian industry”, he detailed the director.
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