Accelerate Oil & Gas 2013 Promises Great Opportunities (Brazil)

There is only less than a month to go until Accelerate Oil & Gas 2013 and it is promising great opportunities for those who are attending the event on 21-22 May at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Firstly, the event is taking place in such an occasion making the intermission in between the first and second round bids for oil & gas in Brazil, the first such a tender since December 2008.

Therefore Accelerate Oil & Gas team created favourable environment to put into effect this important event in the national sector. There will be exclusive lectures & discussions referring both to the round-bids issues which are the main line of the topic as well as issues related to local content, technological challenges, funds and financial mechanisms, environmental issues, especially regulatory and analytical views of the international market related to the sector.

In addition, to set a tool that encourages participants to undertake new partnerships, Accelerate Oil & Gas 2013 team, in conjunction with SEBRAE – Petrobras system and ONIP, is organising Business Round-Table sessions. Sessions which will bring about 15 anchor companies to review offers proposed by member companies of SEBRAE and ONIP, an action which demonstrates and supports the implementation of local content policy. It is important to mention that this tool will also be used for Meeting Manager System which enables all participants to send meeting invitations and pre-schedule them prior to the event.

The event is sponsored by Statoil, Caixa Economica Federal, SEBRAE, FIRJAN, FINEP, Amec Kromav, Electroproject, Investe Sao Paulo and Wartsila. Confirmed participants include: FMC technologies, Aker Solutions, Camargo Correa, Carioca Engenharia, ENGEVIX, Techint, Expro Group, AP Consuting, Seadrill, STX, Transoacean, CMO Offshore Construction, HRT, Barra Energia, Shell, ABB, Siemens, Chemtech, Gazprom, Total, Banco Caixa Geral in Brazil, Banco do Brazil, BNDES, Ericson Air-crane, World magic, IMC Saste, Indra, Essencis, Brasco, PwC, Aon, Petroenge, IBM, Multialloy, Copergas, ABIMAQ, TO Brazil, Odebrecht Oil & Gas, DM Construction, Geohub, Braskem, Grupo Libra, GDK SA, Promon Engenharia, Apex- Brasil, CGG, Forshi, Air Liquide, Baker Hughes and Falck Nutec.

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Press Release, April 26, 2013