Scope of New Contract Includes Construction and Assembly Services During the General Maintenance Shutdown at Braskem’s Petrochemical Complex in Santo André, SP.
Método Potencial Engenharia celebrates a new contract with Braskem for the execution of construction and assembly services during the General Maintenance Shutdown of the unit located in the Petrochemical Complex of Grande ABC, in Santo André (SP). Elfe Engenharia with updated offshore job openings today.
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The scope of the service includes the modernization of the furnaces and the entire transfer line, which will result in greater production efficiency and improvements in sustainability indicators.
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“We are celebrating the achievement of another important contract. We will carry out construction and assembly services during the General Maintenance Shutdown at Braskem’s unit in the Petrochemical Complex of Grande ABC, in Santo André (SP). This agreement is an important milestone in diversifying our client portfolio and confirms our expansion strategy in the private sector beyond the oil and gas segment,” the company states in its official news network.
“We will bring to Braskem all our expertise, accumulated over more than 31 years of operation in the sector and 400 successful projects,” adds Joel Peito, Executive Director of Business Unit for Industrial Construction and Assembly at Método.
The project is in the mobilization phase and is scheduled for completion by May 2021.
Braskem is the largest producer of thermoplastic resins in the Americas. It has a production capacity of over 20 million tons per year of resins and other chemical products. In the Grande ABC region, there are four units: one for polyethylene, one for polypropylene, and two for chemical products.
With the contract signed with Braskem, Método totaled R$ 1 billion in backlog orders in 2019, just in its Industrial Unit. Last year, the company secured 18 new contracts and consolidated its presence in engineering projects in the oil and gas segment.
Currently, through a joint venture with Shandong Kerui, Método is also responsible for the works of 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 for Petrobras post Lava Jato.
Still 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 executing project, civil construction, and electromechanical assembly services, conditioning, pre-operation support, and support for the startup of the GLP (C3) and C5+ Project at REVAP.
At the Presidente Bernardes Refinery (RPBC), located in Cubatão (SP), Método was responsible for carrying out maintenance shutdown services on the furnaces.
In Amazonas, the company conducted services related to the executive project, disassembly, and adaptation at the Santiago-BA Hub, encompassing the transfer of facilities with transportation of equipment and systems, conditioning services, construction, assembly, and support for Pre-Operation and Assisted Operation for the implementation of UPGN-4 at the Arara Pole Station of UO-AM.

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