Country manager appointed for Harris Pye Ltda Macae Rio de Janeiro

Tuesday, 03 May 2011

Alex McAndrew (52) has been appointed Country Manager for Harris Pye Brasil Ltda, based in Macaé in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, with responsibility for all operations from budget through to client satisfaction at the rapidly expanding offshore and marine engineering facility.

Opened in 2001 to serve Harris Pye Group clients involved with exploration and production in Brazil’s deepwater areas, the facility has moved four times during the decade due to expansion, has recently taken on an additional fabrication facility and is actively look for new premises to ensure it continues to meet, and surpass, client expectations.


Harris Pye Brasil is currently undertaken a three month programme of alongside repairs and upgrades to Transocean’s rig Deep Water Discovery at Angra dos Reis; and the manufacture, installation and commissioning of two steam boiler houses for Brasdrill/Diamond Offshore Drilling; and had a riding crew onboard Navis Drilling’s rig Blacford Dolphin during its tow from Cape Town to Brasil in August and September 2001. It also regularly provides repair teams and equipment for clients including Navis Drilling, Modec, Saipem, SBM, Teekay Petrojarl and Transocean.

The Harris Pye Group, headquartered in Barry, South Wales and with 17 companies, workshops and facilities in 14 countries around the world, recorded its best-ever order intake in 2010, breaking through the £100m mark worldwide; added to which, Q1 of 2011 has seen every station - including Harris Pye Brasil - report their busiest first quarter ever.


Alex McAndrew has a long association with the offshore oil and gas industry, and will be on the Harris Pye stand at OTC 2011 (Stand 6119) to renew acquaintances built up over the past 30+ years.


Most recently he worked with SLP Engineering and then C&D Group on the design, construction and then outfitting of a 180-person living quarters for the redevelopment of the BP Valhall field. Prior to that he worked for Allseas, Harris Pye Marine, Buckie Shipyard, BUE Caspian, Dubai Drydocks, Tees Dockyard, Rosyth Royal Dockyard (Babcock), Cleveland Bridge and Engineering and Scott Lithgow.

“I am delighted to have returned to Harris Pye and to be working in such an exciting offshore region,” says Alex McAndrew. “Recent discoveries of large offshore oil deposits are set to transform Brazil into one of the largest oil producers in the world; and, as the Harris Pye Group knows from its work around the world, exploration and production in ever-deeper waters holds its own challenges, needing innovative solutions and the fast turnaround on which we here at Harris Pye Brasil – backed by the Group’s global expertise - thrive.

“Brazil's oil production has risen steadily in recent years, with the country's oil production in 2010 about 150,000 bbl/d (6 percent) higher than in 2009 – we will be expanding to keep pace with what is going on in the waters off Brazil, and look forward to bringing our expertise to many challenging projects in the coming months and years.”