Tag: Brazil

Specialty chemicals group ALTANA has acquired two companies in Brazil. As a result, the ACTEGA division now has its own sites in South America's largest country.

The voestalpine Group secured its second major pipeline contract this year after South Stream. voestalpine will deliver 120,000 tons of sour-gas-resistant, high-strength linepipe plates for the third Petrobras pipeline near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by March 2015.

Saipem has been awarded by Petrobras a four-year extension to the Cidade de Vitória FPSO lease contract at Petrobras’ Golfinho Field, in Brazil’s Espirito Santo Basin, as well as a contract for modification and upgrading of the leased FPSO vessel.

General Electric announced the opening of the USD 500M Brazil Technology Center that will focus on developing advanced subsea oil and gas technology.

EPIC is providing project management services for the treatment of 200,000bbls of water and oil emulsion stored in multiple storage tanks on the Polvo FPSO and for converting external ballast tanks back to oil storage tanks.

Tecninox, the integrated manufacturing plant within Raccortubi Group, has been awarded Petrobras’ technical approval for its butt weld fittings. The news comes in quick succession of the launch of the Group’s latest subsidiary in South America, Raccortubi do Brasil Ltda.

SGS secured a contract to provide petrochemical company Braskem with electrical and instrumentation maintenance, calibration of valves, and maintenance shutdowns to enable the company to expand its operations in southern Brazil.

Air Liquide will invest around EUR 40M in a new Air Separation Unit (ASU) that will supply Klabin, Brazil’s biggest paper manufacturer, with oxygen. The new ASU will supply more than 160t of oxygen per day to Klabin’s new factory located in Ortigueira, as well as to Klabin’s other site in Telêmaco Borba, both located in the state of Paraná.

Subsea 7 announced the award of a lump sum contract valued at approximately USD 110M by Shell for the installation of jumpers, umbilicals and associated subsea structures for the BC-10 Phase 3 Project in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.Project management and engineering will be performed from Subsea 7’s offices in Rio de Janeiro and will commence in Q1 2014.

White Martins, the Brazil-based subsidiary of Praxair, has started up a new 800-ton-per-day air separation plant in the state of Minas Gerais, in southeastern Brazil.