Trascription of José Ceccato – Maintenance Supervisor

José Ceccato says: The pipeline range technician's work is to keep the ranges safe, and to make sure the pipelines installed in them do not represent risks to the population and to the surface facilities that exist on it. A pipeline range, like the one we are seeing here, is a dispossessed area that is twenty meters wide and, in the specific case of this one, hold four pipelines buried at an average depth of one meter. The pipelines here transport gasoline, ethanol, diesel and kerosene. And the gas pipeline transports natural gas. The main challenge of a maintenance technician is to make sure the three failure modes we work with are and remain stable and offer no risk. The first failure module is the geological and geotechnical one, it is for soil movements to not cause instability that might cause loss to the installed pipeline. The second is installing signage in order for the range to be visible, both for the population and to occasional passers-by. The third is third-party action, in order to avoid outsiders from making any intervention on the pipeline without Petrobras having authorized such activity in writing. And the gratifying part is contact with nature, with different people we have along the ranges and also the technical responsibility we have through the years and that are professionally rewarding through time. Look, what we have to say to the new hire, the word that summarizes all of the work he will do, is that he must be committed. Commitment is the key word for his success in the Petrobras system.