Ocyan's Offshore Maintenance and Services (MSO) area, whose base of operations and logistical support is located in Macaé (RJ), completes 20 years of operation this year. Currently, the business unit has about 300 members and a strategic base, seven kilometers from the port of Macaé and 15 kilometers from the city airport, with the capacity to serve the entire Campos Basin and other regions.

“Our strategy for the next three years is to strengthen our business relations and sign new agreements. It is to innovate and think differently about the same business”, stresses Vinicius Castilho, contract director for Ocyan's Maintenance and Offshore Services area.

The MSO area has a diverse portfolio of activities, including integrated service planning; the planning and execution of stops at production and drilling units; solutions in repairs, maintenance, project assembly (welding, boilermaking, electrical piping / instrumentation); industrial and high performance painting; access engineering and special rope access services; in addition to solutions for manufacturing customized structures and pipes; special inspection services; preservation and commissioning services.

MSO's services provision are differentiated by offering its own engineering team with technical knowledge in all areas of the O&G business to meet, on demand, maintenance needs and specialized services for the entire industry in Brazil.

“Our scope is very broad and our proposal has always been to provide integrated services to the entire maintenance and offshore services chain. We plan our customers' demands and production stops and manage various services. It is this portfolio of services that guarantees our longevity in the market ”, explains Castilho.

Ocyan's MSO area is the first in the industry to preserve equipment and structures for the offshore market with the asset in operation. The service was implemented in 2018 inspired by what already occurs today in the petrochemical segment. Since then, it has accumulated more than three thousand preserved equipment, and has considerably reduced operational maintenance costs and improved equipment operational performance.

At the beginning of last year, Ocyan signed an agreement with the Canadian company Tube-Mac to offer new technology to players in the oil and gas and petrochemical market in Brazil. This technology allows the installation and assembly of pipes using cold solderless connections, called Pyplok®, with low installation cost, less man-hours, leak-free system, greater durability, easy installation, without requiring additional inspections by Non-Destructive Testing, using cold technology safely and reliably.

This initiative is fully in line with Ocyan's strategy of bringing technological solutions to the country that can be applied in the industry and are already widely used outside Brazil, through partnerships with foreign companies that do not yet operate locally.

Our business in numbers 

Ocyan's Offshore Maintenance and Services business unit has extensive experience that can be translated into numbers. Since the year 2000, more than 30 agreements have been executed to date, 1 million engineering hours, more than 120 production and drilling stops, more than 10,000 tons of pipes and structures assembled on board the offshore facilities, more of 1 million square meters painted and 14 million meters of scaffolding assembled, in addition to having almost 80 million man-hours worked with the highest level of safety and quality in the market.

“We have a record of around 20 million man-hours worked without a lost-time accident,” says Castilho.

Sustainability 

At Ocyan, safety is our greatest value. The performance of the offshore maintenance and services business unit, as well as the entire company in sustainable development, implies going beyond the duty of complying with the laws and regulations that regulate activities. For the company, it means understanding the trends and priorities of society and meeting the global conventions and commitments applicable in each operation site, in addition to ensuring the proper management of Social and Environmental Risks related to operations.

“The safety of employees is an issue of paramount importance for the company. We carried out several awareness campaigns with members, involving all sectors in which we operate, in addition to varied training and compliance with our procedures. As a result of our commitment, we completed the first quarter of this year without the occurrence of any recordable accident with members Onshore and Offshore”, concludes the executive

In addition, the offshore maintenance and services unit has a robust management system that allows customers to be assured of Safety, Quality and Productivity. The area has ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and OHASAS 18001:2007 certifications, in addition to associations with international entities, such as: DROPS and IRATA.

Last year Ocyan recorded the best security rate in the company's history, with a 0.58 Recordable Incident Frequency Rate, which equates to 0.58 incidents for every 1 million man-hours worked.