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Interview

Paulo Veronesi, General Director - Southern Cone, McDermott International Inc.

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Since 2014, the Brazilian market has As the market heats up, it becomes specifc areas of specialization, although been struggling to regain momentum. increasingly diffcult to hire specialized there are still knowledgeable experts

Only around mid-2018 did the market workers in certain areas. (*NOTE: This who have been in the industry for more and Arrays and Arrays really begin to heat up again. These interview was conducted before the full than 30 years available to help us, four lean years were mainly a result of effects of the COVID-19 pandemic im- mixing them with young people full of the backlash caused by the Petrobras pacted global oil markets), Some of that energy seems to be the right way to go,” corruption and graft scandal involving is caused by potential workers moving explains Veronesi.

the highest levels of government, yet to other industries, sometimes due to the McDermott was busy at the end of also magnifed by a major drop in oil large demand for specifc specialties by 2019 with a number of project under-

Position / prices. “The business environment has the industry, creating a strong competi- way for their main client, although they

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Monitoring improved a lot in the last year or so, al- tion to hire the best minds available, expect to increase their clientele shortly. though Brazil is still a complex place to and sometimes simply because of low “Petrobras is our main client in Brazil; do business due to taxes and legislation, availability of specialists in a number of however, the market is rapidly grow- among other challenges,” said Veronesi. areas. “The market is getting tight for ing in terms of clients and diversity of

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