Manutenção do gasoduto Urucu-Coari-Manaus: planejamento e logística

Abstract

This research aimed to present the challenges of the logistics required to maintain the Urucu-Coari-Manaus gas pipeline. This was developed to supply the growing need for electric energy in the Amazonian municipalities and has been in operation since 2009, this pipeline connects the municipality of Coari (oil region of Uruca) to the Isaac Sabbá refinery in Manaus. Methodologically, a research is classified, as to the approach in a quali-quantitative research, because there was contact in loco with the studied space in order to obtain more details for the study. In addition, quantitative data is used to exemplify the maintenance process for this terminal. In general, the results induced that many are the challenges encountered since implantation to the present day of operation, transporting as great distances to access the deposits of the Urucu River, facing as endemic, ensuring minimum conditions of comfort, safety, nutrition and meeting the demands of the project, since the circumstances imposed by the peculiar characteristics of the rivers bring complexity to the production. It is in this way that the specific maintenance of this gas pipeline is consolidated, as they are granted as return by land and consolidate a service that guarantees its operationality with safety and confidence requires the technical planning and programming staff to be very careful to deal with lives, with essential supply regional development and a heritage of great added value.