Offshore staff
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) and the Instituto Brasileiro de Petróleo e Gás (IBP) have announced the Brazilian recipients of the OTC 2023 Distinguished Achievement Awards.
These awards recognize major technological, humanitarian, safety, environmental and leadership contributions to the industry each year.
This year Jacques Braile Saliés, PhD, has been recognized for Individual Achievement. Petrobras’ Tethered BOP and the Real Time Riser Analysis for Subsea Wells Construction field for has been highlighted for Company Achievement. Additionally, Cezar Augusto Silva Paulo has received the Heritage Award.
Recipients will be honored prior to each OTC Brasil daily plenary session at the Expo Mag in Rio de Janeiro.
OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for Individuals
Jacques Braile Saliés, PhD, has been honored with the Distinguished Achievement Award for Individuals for his important contribution to the development and implementation of deepwater technologies in Brazil.
For the last 42 years, Saliés has been consistently contributing to the progress of the deepwater industry on its operational and R&D aspects, OTC said.
In the R&D area, his research for his PhD dissertation (TU, 1994) was presented at several international conferences and became the foundation for many other investigations on buckling. Also, his research on buckling was fundamental to understanding buckling behavior and lock-up conditions of pipes while drilling extended-reach, high-inclined wells, which are so commonly used in offshore/offshore field developments.
Related to the development of the offshore industry in Brazil, Saliés was the coordinator (2003–2005) of the historic Petrobras PROCAP program, which developed several breakthrough deepwater applications that led Petrobras to win the OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for Companies, Organizations, and Institutions three times.
Saliés is the inventor of a patent (USA, Norway, Brazil) related to a methodology for drilling and completion for oil wells with small intermediate diameters. Such methodology has been used for Petrobras S.A. to drill more than 100 offshore wells in Brazil’s Campos Basin.
He retired from Petrobras in 2011 and now manages the deepwater drilling and completions operations of Brazilian operator Enauta.
OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for Companies, Organizations and Institutions
Petrobras has garnered the OTC Distinguished Achievement Award for companies in recognition of jointly applying the Moored BOP and the Real Time Riser Analysis for Subsea Wells Construction field. To make viable dynamic positioning (DP) operations on shallow waters, the challenges were the applied bending moment and the conservativeness of the Riser Analysis study. To overcome this challenge, the Petrobras technical team proposed a combination of two existing different technologies: Moored BOP and Real Time Riser Analysis.
The Petrobras Naval and Riser Analysis team successfully deployed this technology and made viable wells intervention using DP drilling rigs in shallow waters. The company achieved viable DP operations in shallow waters up to 150 m depth, increased safety and performance due to the use of newer rigs (in comparison with the older moored units) and system monitoring, reduced massively the footprint impact on seabed—Moored BOP versus Conventional Moored unit 99 reduction—and also made viable operations on congested seabed area, including marine corals and marine fauna area.
Petrobras has shared its technology with other operators publishing the Technical Specification on its website “Canal do Fornecedor.”
OTC Heritage Award
Cezar Paulo is being highlighted for his outstanding leadership, mentorship and his pioneering efforts in the development of new technologies for deepwater production in Brazil, OTC said.
He has more than 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. His work history has been related to underwater technology activities, contributing to pioneering deepwater projects, such as the first generation of subsea manifolds in Campos Basin as well as strategic subsea systems like multiphase pumping, gas-liquid subsea separation and subsea raw water injection systems. He took part in the free-standing hybrid riser study that set the technical basis for the oil export riser for the P-52 platform.
He also contributed to organizing specialization courses in subsea engineering in Petrobras, in conjunction with Petrobras University, Operational Units and R&D Center, with more than 350 engineers trained. He also took part in the conceptual designs for the first production systems for the presalt Santos Basin.
“Cezar has dedicated most of his career in the subsea area, and I have had the opportunity to testimony some of the efforts developed by him," said Orlando Ribeiro, former executive manager of Petrobras R&D Center. "The first one was in ’90s when we faced the challenge to design a subsea christmas tree with a standard interface, in order to allow the flexibility to explore the offshore fields in 1,000 meter of water depths, a pioneering scenario at that time.”
09.20.2023
