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State-owned company created to manage Oil from Pre-salt reserves declares, through its president, that it will increase the staff, but that it has yet to define whether it will open a public tender or outsource
PPSA (Pré-sal Petróleo SA), with an eye on demand growth, plans to define by the end of May its strategic planning to be able to manage the many contracts signed.
According to statements given by the company's president, engineer Eduardo Gerk, after his lecture at the OTC 2019 Fair, in Houston, the company will need to structure itself, since today it is undersized.
One of the measures planned by Pré-sal Petróleo will be the increase in staff, since the company currently has 44 employees and
the law that created the company provided for 180 people, of which 150 were public servants and 30 were hired through free provision.
The president just couldn't say whether this adequacy of the staff will take place through a public tender and/or outsourcing, since the matter has to go through the scrutiny of the Ministry of Economy.
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The new president took over PPSA a month ago in place of Ibsen Flores Lima, who had led the state-owned company since November 2016 and, according to him, has not yet made drastic changes in the company's management.
Gerk stressed that the company's growth was already foreseen and that it will be necessary, since the company already has 14 contracts signed and those for the Transfer of Rights Surplus and the 6th round of sharing are yet to come, all scheduled for this year.
The creation of the company
At the height of the optimism generated by the pre-salt discoveries, Pré-sal Petróleo SA was created in 2013, a state-owned company responsible for managing and representing the Union in oil and natural gas production sharing contracts in the country.
According to a PPSA study, the sharing fields have the potential to reach more than 2 million barrels per day and will require 19 FPSOs over the next 10 years in the fourteen areas already signed so far.
