Benefits to Local Communities: Brazil

  • Number of Brazilians working for the SBM Offshore Group, and subcontractors:
    • Shore base:
      • Own national employees: 36
      • Long term subcontractors national employees: 3
    • Floating units:
      • Own national employees: 169
      • Long term subcontractors national employees: 6
  • The SBM Offshore Group is using the following local service companies: CIS, Safos, Demag Delaval, General Instruments, Solas, Decapametal, ABB, Sotreq - So Turbo, Vega, Sparrows, Pendent Line, Support, Supply Drill.
  • The SBM Offshore Group has invested in a process simulator which will be installed mid 2005 in the premises of Senai, in Macaé, Brazil. Senai is a governmental Brazilian Training Institution which will develop, together with SBM Competence Assurance specialists, training modules for our process operators. The training of our Brazilian FPSOs employees will be performed by the Senai instructors in Macaé. SBM Offshore plans to have twelve groups of eight trainees for periods of five days, which is almost one hundred training sessions of five days per year. This training action has been implemented to allow SBM Offshore to achieve its Nationalisation target, which is 60 percent of its offshore crew in 2005, 70 percent in 2006 and 80 percent in 2008.

  • Casa do Menor project
    The "Casa do Menor" project consists of promoting professional qualifications as well as developing citizenship, for less fortunate teenagers. The project facilitates access to culture and education amenities.

    SBM Offshore finances the courses of the project where the youngsters can learn a job and consequently obtain a decent income.