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Interview

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

projects in the offshore area. We expect the feld,” said Veronesi. “We are well positioned to serve this the onshore sector to catch up also with The executive agreed that there a many market with our converted vessel and the new investments in LNG, refning diffculties and major challenges to the engineering capabilities that we have and power generation that are coming,” overcome when dealing with pre-salt built over the last 18 months. It is a fact said Veronesi. The service company is development and deepwater construction. that the Brazilian O&G market demand in the midst of a number of important According to Veronesi – “Our challenges has picked up in the upstream sector. upstream projects for National Operator with pre-salt is being able to install all Now, we expect to see growth in the and other clients, which is keeping them subsea infrastructure in 2,200 meter downstream sector with major invest- busy and allowing them to maintain a water depth as effciently as possible. For ments in LNG, gas-fred power genera- steady growth. that, we have converted the Amazon mul- tion, and later, also in the refning sector. “We just fnalized the Atlanta Phase tipurpose vessel, adding a 1,500 ton J-lay McDermott is a market leader in these

I Subsea EPCI project for Enauta last tower to it, which will make it a game- sectors and we are poised to beneft from year, which was a great success, and changer for the pre-salt subsea market. the growth by offering solutions to these previously we had several vessels operat- The Amazon was delivered to IHC in the markets. Having said that, it is important ing for Petrobras. We also designed and Netherlands in August 2019 for a conver- to note that safety is our number one installed the Papa-Terra TLP platform sion period, which is expected to last priority, and we are constantly working recently. We are currently busy executing 10 months. Redelivery to McDermott is with our suppliers to bring them up to two EPCI projects for Petrobras – Rota expected in the summer of 2020.” the safety standards of McDermott. This 3, which is in the installation phase and When asked about his outlook for the is a continuous effort that we are doing

Sépia, which is a pre-salt job where we Brazilian offshore market, Mr. Veronesi with very positive results,” concluded will install the subsea infrastructure for was positive at the time of the interveiw. Veronesi.

(*NOTE: This interview was conducted before the full effects of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted global oil markets),

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