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DEEPWATER INTERVENTION

Ativatec makes its mark in Brazil’s deepwater intervention sector

Claudio Paschoa discusses deepwater intervention equipment and services with Daniel Almeida

Camerini, of Ativatec, at the company’s new headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.

ROV with GO-GLO bottles attached.

Photo from Ativatec.

t is widely known that the deepwater intervention equipment manufacturers and service providers for many years; yet few market in Brazil is dominated by foreign companies with local companies can deliver subsea equipment or services that

I proven expertise in the area. Very few fully Brazilian compa- can compete with foreign manufacturers and service providers nies are present in this market, which is very competitive and in terms of quality, reliability and price.

Ativatec is one of a small group of Brazilian companies that requires large investments in high-end technology and special- manufactures subsea equipment and provide services for deep- ized engineering skills, making it a market that has products of water inspection and intervention that have managed to win high aggregated value. With the increasing demand for deep- contracts from Petrobras. The company develops and operates water intervention equipment and services from supermajors equipment in the feld for their clients. Ativatec is an offspring of in Brazil, local companies, such as Ativatec, are faced with an the Genesis Institute of the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro excellent opportunity to grow. Daniel Almeida Camerini, a part- (PUC-Rio), which promotes technologically-focused businesses ner in Ativatec, emphasizes that the company continues to look ventures run by university graduates. for both local and foreign partners. Deepwater intervention is a “The Genesis Institute was important in integrating the com- constant challenge. Offshore Brazil, where deepwater pre-salt pany with professors and students at the university, to give visibil- and post-salt plays abound, state oil and gas company Petrobras ity to the company through the media and in the technology and has invested in local up-and-coming deepwater equipment business communities specialized in subsea technology in Brazil,”

Camerini said. Camerini holds a Master’s degree in automation and control engineering from PUC-Rio. He has coordinated R&D projects in the oil and gas industry as research engineer at PUC-

Rio for the last 10 years and, along with partner Rodrigo Carvalho

Ferreira, manages Ativatec. Both are graduates of PUC-Rio, where they also worked on research and development projects in partner- ship with the Petrobras Research Center (CENPES).

Ativatec frst developed the special ROV tool test bolt (FTEB), designed in partnership with Petrobras, for testing integrity and shielding of screws in production equipment such as Xmas trees,

MCVs and BAPs installed in water depths of up to 2000m. More than 50 successful inspections were made in offshore production felds for Petrobras in 2010. This tool performs structural tests and corrosion protection in bolts installed in places of diffcult access on subsea production equipment. The embedded electronics offer

Daniel Camerini at Ativatec’s workshop at UFRJ’s Technology

Center in Rio de Janeiro. Photo by Claudio Paschoa.

real-time data during the operations.

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