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Potential Method celebrates contract for construction and assembly services with the leader in the petrochemical segment Braskem

Written by Flavia Marinho
Published 19/01/2020 às 19:57
Updated 20/01/2020 às 08:51
Potential Method celebrates contract for construction and assembly services with the leader in the petrochemical segment Braskem
Potential Method celebrates contract for construction and assembly services with the leader in the petrochemical segment Braskem

The scope of the new contract includes construction and assembly services, during the General Maintenance Shutdown at the Braskem Petrochemical Complex in Santo André, SP.

Potential Engineering Method, celebrates new contract with Braskem to carry out construction and assembly services during the General Maintenance Shutdown of the unit located in the Greater ABC Petrochemical Complex, in Santo André (SP). Elfe Engenharia with offshore vacancies updated today.

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The scope of the service includes modernizing the furnaces and the entire transfer line, which will result in greater production efficiency and improvements in sustainability indicators.

“We are celebrating the winning of yet another important contract. We are going to carry out construction and assembly services during the General Maintenance Shutdown at the Braskem unit, at the Grande ABC Petrochemical Complex, in Santo André (SP). This agreement is an important milestone in the diversification of our client portfolio, and confirms our strategy of expansion in the private sector beyond the oil and gas segment”, says the company in its official news network.

“We will bring to Braskem all of our expertise, accumulated over more than 31 years of experience in the sector and 400 successful projects”, adds Joel Peito, Executive Director of the Construction and Industrial Assembly Business Unit at Modo.

The work is in the mobilization phase and the project is scheduled for completion in May 2021.

Braskem is the largest producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas. It has a production capacity of more than 20 million tons per year of resins and other chemical products. There are four units in the Greater ABC region: one for polyethylene, one for polypropylene and two for chemical products.

With the contract signed with Braskem, Modo totaled R$ 1 billion in backlog orders in 2019, in its Industrial Unit alone. Last year, the company won 18 new contracts and consolidated its presence in engineering projects in the oil and gas segment.

Currently, through a joint venture with Shandong Kerui, Modo is also responsible for the works on the Natural Gas Processing Unit (UPGN) at COMPERJ, the largest engineering project in the O&G sector currently underway in the country and the largest by Petrobras post-Lava-Jato.

Also in the Southeast, the company worked on several projects for the Henrique Lajes Refinery (REVAP), located in São José dos Campos (SP). It was responsible, for example, for supplying goods and carrying out project services, civil construction and electromechanical assembly, conditioning, pre-operation support and start-up support for REVAP's GLP Project (C3) and C5+.

At the Presidente Bernardes Refinery (RPBC), located in Cubatão (SP), Modo was responsible for carrying out services related to furnace maintenance shutdowns.

In Amazonas, the company carried out services related to the executive, disassembly and adaptation project at the Nucleus of Santiago-BA, including the transfer of facilities with transport of equipment and systems, conditioning services, construction, assembly and support to the Pre-Operation and Assisted Operation, for the implementation of the UPGN-4, at the Polo Arara Station of the UO-AM.

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