Brazil will remain an attractive location for the UK’s subsea sector despite the Zika virus outbreak and the Petrobras corruption scandal, an independent consultant from the South American country said yesterday.
Daniella Carneiro was speaking on the sidelines of Subsea Expo in Aberdeen, where a new initiative was launched to improve links between UK and Brazilian subsea firms.
Ms Carneiro, a London-based director of Chartham Consulting, said UK Trade and Investment and the Brazilian Science and Technology Ministry had produced a catalogue which lays out information about subsea firms from both countries.
A travel security firm has formed a new crisis management team to support oil and gas employees working in areas affected by the Zika virus.
International SOS (ISOS) said the “sinister and damaging” disease has spread rapidly across South and Central America since appearing in Brazil in May 2015.
Brazil, which has a large oil and gas industry, was the 20th most visited country among ISOS’s client base between October 2014 and September 2015, with 139,000 individual trips made.
