OTC confirms achievement, in 2011, the event in Brazil

Date: 05/03/2010 14:36


Its started on Monday (3), Houston, Texas, Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the main international event of the offshore oil industry. For the eleventh consecutive year the Brazil pavilion organized by the Brazilian Institute of Oil, Gas and Biofuels (IBP) and the National Organization of the Petroleum Industry (Onip) attends in the OTC.

An offshoot of the project Brazilian Oil & Gas Supply, the result of agreement between Apex and Onip Brazil (Brazilian Agency for Export Promotion and Investment), the Brazil Pavilion, which in 2009 occupied 350 square meters, got bigger and changed his address. In 2010, the pavilion grew 40% (550 m²), occupying the number 1117, at the entrance of Reliant Center.


Integrate the pavilion 37 companies from various sectors of the productive chain of Brazilian oil industry, in addition to IBP, ONIP and the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels.

"The increasing number of companies in the pavilion demonstrates the potential exporter of Brazilian suppliers and arouse interest of foreign buyer or partner for Brazil, which is today a world reference in the industry offshore oil and gas," evaluates the executive secretary of IBP, Alvaro Teixeira.


For brazilians, the big news is the confirmation of the completion of 4 to October 6, 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, the first event of the OTC brand in Brazil. Two other editions of the event, called the Offshore Technology Conference - Brazil (OTCB) and will be held every two years, is already scheduled for 2013 and 2015.


Tomorrow (4), at two o´clock (16 o´clock for GMT), the president of Petrobras, José Sergio Gabrielli and the president of Petrobras America, Orlando Azevedo, grant a news conference. The executives will talk about the pre-salt discoveries off the Brazilian coast, the Long Duration Test of Tupi Santos Basin, the start of production in Cascade and Chinook in the Gulf of Mexico and on the business of Petrobras in Brazil and abroad.