Contractors in charge of Petrobras’ fourth natural-gas processing unit in Brazil pulled off a feat of epic proportions: From a gas compound in Pojuca, the project team moved the unit through an intricate logistical operation that involved a 5,000-kilometer-long haul on roads and rivers through the Amazon rainforest.
Petrobras consultant Potencial Engenharia started, in late 2012, disassembling, conditioning, transferring, building and assembling the unit, called UPGN4, in addition to preparing the site at the oil company’s Urucu plant in the Amazon. Last month, the engineering company commissioned the $97.2-million project, called UPGN4, whose operation increases the local gas production to 6 million cu meters from 4.5 million cu m.