Some Petrobras ventures and works remain at full steam despite the pandemic. An example of one of them is the construction of the Comperj Route 3 gas pipeline, which will transport the pre-salt production, leaving the Lula North Field through submarine pipelines and continuing to Maricá – Itaboraí, until reaching the UPGN ( Natural gas).

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The video below (2019-2020) refers to the hole construction part dimensional / directional located in Itaboraí-RJ. O pipeline directional hole It is done with the aim of drilling the underground horizontally. Currently, it has increased gas pipeline works in medium and large cities. For this reason, it is necessary to find a company that performs the work safely and within the established deadlines.

Companies providing services to Petrobras in this stretch

• Concremat Engineering and Technology – It is participating in the project, through an EPC contract, developing the land stretch, which runs approximately 48 km in length to the COMPERJ facilities.
• Encalso Construcoes Ltda – Created a consortium with Concremat called  GTR3 to work on the enterprise. It works mainly with earthmoving, construction and paving of roads, avenues, bridges and viaducts, dams, airports; construction of water and sewage treatment plants; basic sanitation works and urban infrastructure.
• DrillTec Drilling Services LTDA – Leading company in the South American horizontal directional drilling market, with extensive experience in national and international projects.

Last Saturday (04), the “pushing” was carried out, with 754 m of column. See a panoramic image of this highlighted section below:

Petrobras gives up oil through Comperj and will focus only on gas

In December 2019, Petrobras concluded definitively that Comperj would not be economically attractive, both for it and the Chinese CNPC. The options so far include the interconnection to Reduc (Duque de Caxias Refinery) or the construction of a thermoelectric plant. The president of the state-owned company guaranteed that the city of Itaboraí will not “be left in the lurch” and that, one way or another, the project will generate jobs and economic sustainability in the region.