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More Than 90 Percent of Oil Workers on Two Platforms in Ceará Have Coronavirus

Written by Flavia Marinho
Published on 12/05/2020 at 18:52
Updated on 12/05/2020 at 19:05
Mais de 90 por cento dos petroleiros de duas plataformas no Ceará têm coronavírus
Mais de 90 por cento dos petroleiros de duas plataformas no Ceará têm coronavírus
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The information comes from the Unified Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) and the Oil Workers Union of Ceará (Sindipetro-CE).

The Xaréu field has been put up for sale by Petrobras and is located about 50 km off the coast of Paracuru, Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza.

Check Below the Statement Issued by the Oil Workers Union of Ceará

On May 2, there was the first complaint of fever and pain from three workers on a platform called PXA1.

Three days later, five workers with symptoms of COVID-19 disembarked; those who remained on board and had direct contact with these five were kept isolated internally. However, without effective sanitary results.

An interconnected platform to PXA1, within the same oil field (Xaréu), called PXA2, was also affected by the effects of the pandemic and today, in addition to PXA1 itself, is uninhabited.

In addition, one of the symptomatic workers entered a third platform, called PAT3, which is currently normally inhabited.

On Sunday (05/10), another oil worker presented symptoms of coronavirus; he was in another production field, CURIMÃ.

The Oil Workers Union of Ceará stated that Petrobras insists on maintaining shipments, and that the measures taken by the state company are ineffective, as a new outbreak may establish itself and repeat the situation.

“Management has neglected care for the workforce. The first masks were only a single layer of TNT, without elastic, to be assembled by the user and in insufficient quantity,” reported one of the workers.

The Public Labor Ministry was notified, according to Sindipetro-CE

Flavia Marinho

Flavia Marinho é Engenheira pós-graduada, com vasta experiência na indústria de construção naval onshore e offshore. Nos últimos anos, tem se dedicado a escrever artigos para sites de notícias nas áreas militar, segurança, indústria, petróleo e gás, energia, construção naval, geopolítica, empregos e cursos. Entre em contato com flaviacamil@gmail.com ou WhatsApp +55 21 973996379 para correções, sugestão de pauta, divulgação de vagas de emprego ou proposta de publicidade em nosso portal.

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