Petrobras prioritizes quality, price and deadlines in contracts for the construction of platforms P-78 and P-79. The bidding process started in July 2020

Petrobras informed in a material fact on the afternoon of this day (15/01) that, in continuity with its development strategy for the Búzios field, in the pre-salt of the Santos Basin, Petrobras will receive, on February 1, proposals from the companies pre-qualified for bidding for the construction of platforms P-78 and P-79.

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In the statement, Petrobras informs that the bidding process followed Law 13.303/2016 and began in July 2020, with the participation of 10 national and international companies, all with recognized experience.

“At this stage, the companies will present their prices, in addition to the technical proposal. All bidders were previously qualified for the bidding, when the financial, technical and operational requirements of these companies were analyzed. Petrobras' decision-making process for contracting goods and services considers three criteria: quality, competitiveness and delivery time,” says Petrobras.

The current strategies for contracting and building Petrobras platforms are aimed at avoiding delays in the delivery of systems and accelerating the beginning of the development of production areas, since the state-owned company will put into production by 2025, 13 systems for operation in Brazil.

According to the state-owned company, this new generation of platforms incorporates improvements and lessons learned accumulated by Petrobras with its experience over the last 10 years in the pre-salt layer and in other offshore projects of the oil company.

Petrobras prioritizes quality, price and deadlines in the construction of platforms

For the Brazilian oil company, delays in the implementation of projects result in losses of billions of reais in revenue for the federal, state and municipal governments, in addition to reducing the useful and productive life of the sharing regime fields, which have a limited time for production.

For example, Petrobras itself suffered from delays of more than three years in the delivery of ten platforms contracted in 2010, causing the federal, state and municipal governments to fail to collect R$ 33 billion.

Since the platforms have numerous equipment of national origin and comply with the legal requirements of local content, regardless of where they are assembled, delays in the construction of platforms affect the entire specialized national industry.

Strategies to avoid delays

Petrobras has reviewed its contracting system in recent years in order to avoid delays, increase transparency and face the challenges that pre-salt projects and the offshore oil and gas industry demand.

In 2020, Petrobras published in the supplier channel various platform design documents, such as technical specifications and arrangements, contractual terms and conditions.

“In this way, Petrobras contributes to the creation of a mature and competitive supplier market and to the consolidation of an attractive business environment for new investments in oil and gas in Brazil. The company continues to be a major contractor in the country, so much so that, in 2020, it spent BRL 58 billion on contracting goods and services, 62% of which with domestic suppliers,” says the oil company.