With this surprising news, Petrobras has just shaken the offshore sector. More drilling and completion activities means more jobs!
[supsystic-social-sharing id='1′]Petrobras has opened a tender for yet another type of service, “intelligent completion”, which will include 35 wells in the Libra asset and other pre-salt projects in the Santos Basin.
It is using new methods to intelligently complete its pre-salt wells, which is why this sudden tender took all the companies by surprise and are now starting to mobilize. The proposal is to make the current technology of this activity compatible in open wellhead environments, above 8 ½”. Nowadays this is done with 12 ½”, which causes a lot of fluid waste in formations. With smart completion, this problem should be fixed once and for all.
Operations in these wells will start in 2019 and the initial bid price is around US$50 million, with a duration of 2 years and 6 months, which may be renewed as the work takes longer than necessary. So far, the monsters whose eyes and hands are shaking for this contract are Baker Hughes (BHGE), Halliburton, Superior Energy and Weatherford, which are the main players in this modality, but nothing prevents other players from arriving, in the end the possibilities are quite wide. And let more contracts and bids come because we really need it.
Not sure if you got to see more I'll post again. An article that even appeared in the Jornal Nacional saying that 20 platforms are to arrive in Brazil from 2018. In the video below, you can watch the report that was also made on board the Modec ship and its crew, it's worth checking out. You can read the full story on this subject directly in the article on our blog. If you want to like the channel where the video is, feel free.
