800 jobs at Modec in 2020! Petrobras and other multinational oil companies should demand 20 to 30 oil platforms over the next five years.

Great news for shipbuilding, many job openings to come! The Japanese giant Modec is keeping an eye on the growth potential of the oil industry in Brazil with the pre-salt, having the country as the best market for investments and targeting large contracts. Modec's FPSO in operation in Brazil is internationally recognized for cutting-edge digitalization technology

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Betting on technological development to stand out against international rivals, the company will seek to win at least one or two large platform charter contracts per year in the country.

According to Soichi Ide, digital director and vice president of operations for the Modec group in Latin America and Ghana, the concession of important assets to oil giants in recent years ranked Brazil as the best place in the world for the company to grow.

Many job vacancies are coming! In the projections of the supplier and operator of platforms Modec, Petrobras and other multinational oil companies should demand from 20 to 30 platforms in the next five years.

“We are very focused on Brazil”, informed the executive, with enthusiasm, in his office in Rio de Janeiro.

“I know other markets in the North Sea, Africa, Asia… There are no other places like Brazil, where we can really continue to produce new projects on that basis, four or five projects every year. This is not happening in any market in the world, only in Brazil”, concludes Soichi.

The Japanese company estimates that it will open 800 jobs in Brazil in 2020 as part of the growth plan, the new hires will increase the staff of 35 local employees by 2,3%. Around 90% of the company's employees in the country are Brazilian.

In response to the increased operational demand of its vessels in the Campos Basin and the business expansion projections for the coming years, Modec had its new operations base inaugurated last year in Macae (RJ).

Present in Brazil since 2003, the platform supplier and operator is already responsible for 35% of the Brazilian pre-salt production, with 11 operational oil platforms in the country and another four under construction.

In view of the business already underway and the perspective of growth, Ide stated that Modec decided to invest in technology to expand results and contribute to regional development.

The platform included in a select list of the World Economic Forum, the so-called “Global Lighthouse Network”, was the FPSO Cidade de Campos dos Goytacazes, which produces in the Tartaruga Verde field, in the Campos Basin, operated by Petrobras.

It is the first time that an industrial facility located in Latin America is included in the “lighthouse network” – recognition is also unprecedented among offshore units and includes, for the first time, a unit operated by a Japanese company.

Ide also highlighted that the technological development recognized by the Economic Forum was all carried out by the company in Brazil.