UTC Engenharia Returns: Petrobras Allows Company to Bid for State-Owned Enterprise Contracts

After A Lot Of Work, UTC Engenharia Finally Gets Its Leniency Agreement And Exits Petrobras’ Blacklist

Removed from Petrobras’ blacklist since the beginning of 2018 and recently announced to the press, UTC Engenharia finally exits the precautionary blockade due to its involvement in the Lava Jato investigations. In an interview with journalists, Petrobras stated that Odebrecht will also be able to bid with the company after the leniency agreements are fulfilled later this year. The state-owned company’s benevolence is a sign that it wishes to resume operational ties with former service providers.

At the beginning of Lava Jato in 2014, Petrobras included 27 business groups in its blacklist due to their involvement in corruption schemes. From that time until now, two others had already been removed from the list: Carioca Engenharia and Andrade Gutierrez, both of which also signed leniency agreements. The last case, that of UTC, was resolved under the penalty of a fine reaching R$ 574 million.

In July 2017, UTC Engenharia was forced to lay off a true legion of employees, about 2000 at once. This happened due to accusations between the two companies for administrative improprieties and/or lack of payments, which led to a breach of contract for maintenance of platforms in the Campos Basin, and the Consórcio Integrar ended up taking over UTC’s operations. Read the full article we made at the time here.

We Got The Email From Shandong Kerui

This company is in consortium with Método Potencial for the construction of UPGN for the Comperj works, but due to controversies over hiring dates, method of receiving resumes, and start of works. Click Petróleo e Gás decided to skip all this bureaucracy and go straight to the “dragon’s mouth” to ask. They ended up giving us their official recruitment contact email for their operations, which you can check by accessing our article here.