ICKEPS - Challange Track
Planning Ship Operations on Petroleum Platforms and Ports
Industry partner: Transpetro, PETROBRAS, Brazil
Problem description provided by:
- Haroldo Igreja, Transpetro, PETROBRAS, Brazil
- José Reinaldo Silva, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Flavio Tonidandel, University Center of FEI, Brazil
- Tiago Stegun Vaquero, University of Toronto, Canada
Abtsract: After the discovery of a promising massive oilfield beneath 2000 to 3000 meters of water in the coast in 2007, Brazilian government has been investing in advanced technologies and infrastructure on deep water extraction of oil and natural gas. New discoveries in what is called pre-salt brought even more challenges in deep water exploitation as well as in several underlined engineering problems to make this work secure, profitable and unharmful to the nature (which is a great concern for Petrobras). One of this problem is connected with the use of ports which are already very crowded, as well as the need to keep vessels of all kind and size near to the shore to further use. That originates a partnership between Petrobras-Transpetro, Design Lab-USP, IAAA-FEI to specify this problem to ICKEPS which also brings another challenge: to use planning (and scheduling in the future) to overcome large and complex optimization problems which would require more time and resources to be solved.
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