Aker & Other Projects In Brazil

Aker has won two contracts, together worth £13m, from CQG Oil and Gas Contractors and CCI Oil and Gas Contractors, for the supply of Pusnes offloading systems to two FPSOs in Brazil.The offloading systems will be installed on the two FPSOs P-58 and P-62, which are being converted and built for Petrobras

Oxford Catalysts Group’s microchannel reactor technology is now set to be deployed in a 50 barrels/day BTL plant planned for Brazil. The plant, a JV between Portuguese company SGC Energia and an un-named partner. is expected to begin operating early in 2012. (

Metso is to supply all main technology for the 1,500ktpa greenfield pulp mill of Suzano Papel e Celulose SA, to be built in the state of Maranhão, Brazil. Start-up is due H1/13. Metso said a typical value of an order of this size and scope is Euro800-900m, covering all suppliers. Metso’s scope of supply covers wood handling, cooking plant and fibreline, pulp drying and baling, evaporation, power boiler, recovery boiler, causticizing and lime kiln, including an integrated automation system for all process areas.


Metso and Petrobras have signed a contract for the supply of spare parts and maintenance services for Metso’s valves, actuators and positioners for 11 refineries in Brazil. The contract, which includes intelligent tools for preventive and predictive maintenance planning, follows a two-year Metso pilot at a Petrobras refinery in São Paulo.