Metso Signs Service Contract with Petrobras

Metso has signed a service contract with Petrobras to supply spare parts and maintenance services for Metso’s valves, actuators and positioners in 11 refineries in Brazil.

Under the contract, Metso will also provide intelligent tools for preventive and predictive maintenance planning.

The tools will monitor and analyse valve condition while the process is running, unlike conventional methods that stop the process before removing and dismantling the valves for closer inspection.

Petrobras’s Candido Franco said that during the testing period, Metso demonstrated that its tools for managing valve inventories and spare part purchases proved to work in practice when targeting lower maintenance costs.