tcps Schedule 2026
Simplification and Efficiency in High-Performance Rotating Assets
8:00 – 9:00
Registration
9:00 – 10:00
Opening Session “SPE Brazil Turbomachinery, Compressors and Pumps Symposium”
President of SPE Macaé
Denis Angra – Digital Business and Technology Manager at Ocyan
Executive Chair
Ailton Nascimento – Senior Process Engineer at Petrobras
Event Chairs
Bruno Moczydlower – Petrobras
Gustavo Saraiva – Siemens Energy
Wagner Victer – Executive Manager of Strategic Programs Management at Petrobras
10:00 – 12:00
Session 1 “Retrofitting and Recovery of Degraded Systems”
Chairs
Bruno de Lima Pereira – Gerente BC/SOP – Petrobras
Alexandre Baden – Coordenador de Sistemas Rotativos – Modec
Technical Leader
Italo Skovroski – Turbomachinery Advisor at Petrobras
Samir Pinto – Business Development Manager at EagleBurgmann
Speakers
10:00 – 10:20 – Extending Rotating Equipment Service Life Through Field Balancing and Vibration-Based Maintenance, Leandro de Oliveira Zague (Turbomachinery Engineer at ETM Energy & Turbomachinery), Róger Hackenhaar (SBM Offshore – Rotating Engineer) and Jean Abdo-Berndt (BRUEL&KJAER VIBRO – Latam Area Manager)
10:20 – 10:40 – Electrification of Steam Turbine-Powered Compressors – Case Studying the Engineering Requirements to Retrofit a Refrigerant Compression Train, Fabricio Tresse (Mechnical Engineer – Everllence) and Cleber Reis (Technical Manager – Everllence)
10:40 – 11:00 – Oil recovery and preventive care, Cícero Lustosa (Sr technical consultant – Klüber Lucrication)
11:00 – 11:20 – Replacement of degraded mechanical seal supply systems by hydrodynamically acting seal faces, Rüdiger Adam (Technical Director Americas – Rüdiger Adam)
11:20 – 12:00 – Questions and debates
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 15:00
Session 2 “Brownfield Rotating Equipment Upgrades”
Chairs
Anivandro Bonato – Senior Reliability and Maintenance Manager at SBM Offshore
Italo Skovroski – Consultor – Petrobras
Technical Leader
Arturo Cortez – Head of Sales at SSE Brasil
Filipe Rosa – Turbomachinery Market Supervisor at Freudenberg Filtration Technologies
Speakers
13:00 – 13:20 – Brownfield Air Intake Upgrades as a Low-CAPEX Alternative to Major Turbomachinery Modifications, Filipe Rosa (Turbomachinery Market Supervisor – Freudenberg Filtration Technologies)
13:20 – 13:40 – Revamp existing centrifugal compressors and pumps with advanced stage designs as a solution for increase of capacity and improved efficiency, along with a case study from offshore Brasil, Mark Kuzdzal (Vice-President of Technology and Development – Fox Innovation and Technologies)
13:40 – 14:00 – Reducing N₂ consumption and Improving safety through application of coaxial separation seals on turbomachinery’s, Daniel Ciriello (Business Development Manager for Turbomachinery – LATAM) and Rafael Costa (CFD Engineer – John Crane)
14:00 – 14:20 – Revitalizing Brownfield Assets: Advanced Retrofit Strategies for Critical Centrifugal Pumps, Rodrigo Gonçalves Carvalho (Retrofit Specialist – Sulzer)
14:20 – 15:05 – Questions and debates
15:05 – 15:35
Coffe Break
15:35 – 17:35
Session 3 “Reliability and Availability of Critical Rotating Equipment”
Chairs
Leandro Devanil – Sales Manager Brazil – Sulzer
Reggiano Santos – Reliability Lead – Trident Energy
Technical Leader
Cícero Lustosa – Technical Consultant at Klüber Lubrication
Speakers
15:35 – 15:55 – Electrically Driven Seal Gas Booster for improved compressor Performance and reliability, Garrett Landry (Eagle Burgman)
15:55 – 16:15 – Enhancing reliability and availability of drive systems used on critical rotating equipment in offshore operations by reducing complexity, optimizing local support and technology development, Helmut Hippelein (Voith Turbo) and Luciano Mizuguchi (Voith Turbo)
16:15 – 16:35 – Benefits of predictive and preventive maintenance for reliability and availability of rotating equipment’s, Christoph Standecker (MTU Maintenance)
16:35 – 16:55 – Leading-Edge Compression Technology: Beyond Performance, Leandro Henrique de Souza (Siemens – Energy)
16:55 – 17:35 – Questions and debates
17:35 – 19:35
Cocktail
08:00 – 08:20
Welcome Coffee
08:20 – 10:20
Session 4 “Rotating Equipment Digital and AI Applications”
Chairs
Francisco Nascimento – Teacher at University of Sao Paulo – UNIFESP
Makbule Baldik Le Fay – Head of Digital Americas – Everllence
Technical Leader
Marc Berger – Regional Sales Manager Americas Digital & LTSA at Everllence
Speakers
8:20 – 8:35 – Bridging the Physical and Digital World: Digital Twins and AI for Next-Generation Turbomachinery Performance, Marc Berger (Regional Sales Manager Americas – Everllence)
8:35 – 8:50 – Digital Twins: Optimizing Turbine Lifing and Operation, Brandon Stein (Group Manager- Digital Asset Management)
8:50 – 9:05 – Ensuring Safe and Reliable Turbo Asset Operation Through Advanced Monitoring on DGS, Reinaldo Pereira (Technical Lead – John Crane) and Daniel Ciriello (Business Development Manage – John Crane)
9:05 – 9:20 – Technologies supporting prescriptive maintenance in industrial Lubrication, Cícero Lustosa (Senior Technical Consultant – Klüber Lubrication)
9:20 – 9:35 – AI Analytics for Critical Rotating Equipment Reliability & Performance Optimization, Ana Jardim (Senior Solution Architect Americas – Baker Hughes) and Carmine Allegorico (Senior Principal Engineer – Baker Hughes)
9:35 – 10:20 – Questions and debates
10:20 – 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:50
Session 5 “Round Table”
Chairs
Lourenço Morucci – Executive Manager, Engineering and Projects – PRIO
Kirk Lupkes – Head of Future Technology, Compression – Siemens Energy
Technical Leader
Ailton do Nascimento Neto – Senior Process Engineer at Petrobras
Speakers
10:50 – 11:05 – TBA, Steven Nove (Vice President of Engineering – Fox Innovation and Technologies)
11:05 – 11:20 – TBA, Jonas Pedro Caumo (P&D engineer – Siemens Energy)
11:20 – 11:35 – TBA, Virgilio Paixão (Project Manager Sr – Woodgroup)
11:35 – 11:50 – TBA, Eli Eber Batista (P&D engineer – Shell)
11:50 – 12:05 – TBA, Alexandre Linhares (CEO – Unax Group) and Douglas Barbonaglia Sathler Figueiredo (CTO – The Insight)
12:05 – 12:50 – Questions and debates
12:50 – 13:50
Lunch
13:50 – 15:50
Session 6 “Control Systems Retrofit and Upgrade”
With many rotating equipment operating for more years, the control systems of these assets start to be obsolete within 10-15 years from manufacturing. The strategy of upgrading or retrofit start to be fundamental. In this session we will discuss different approaches, technologies and solutions for these challenges.
Chairs
Eduardo Losada – Turbomachinery Consultant at ETM Energy & Turbomachinery
Daniel Maia – Industrial Automation Coordinator at Acelen
Technical Leader
Fabio Zanetti – Principal Account Manager at CCC
Speakers
13:50 – 14:10 – Production Optimization Through Retrofit and Flare Reduction in Compressor Operations, Fabio Zanetti de Souza (Principal Account Manager Brazil Upstream & Argentina – Honeywell CCC)
14:10 – 14:30 – High-Availability and SIL 3 Safety Control Engineering for Critical Turbomachinery, Tayan Martins (Technical Director – SSE Brasil)
14:30 – 14:50 – Retrofitting Compressor Control Systems to Improve Performance, Reliability and Surge Protection, Jose Mejia (Lead Engineer at Siemens Energy)
14:50 – 15:10 – Compressors Control Applications Onshore in PLCs and Within DCS Platforms, Guilherme Schrago (Technical Sales – ECT Energy Control Technologies) and Sterling Schmutz (Technical Sales – ECT Energy Control Technologies)
15:10 – 15:50 – Questions and debates
15:50 – 16:50
Closing Session
7:30 – 8:30
Registration
8:30 – 8:40
Safety Briefing
8:40 – 8:50
Welcome Session “SPE Brazil Turbomachinery, Compressors and Pumps Symposium”
Guilherme Castro – Petrobras Master Petroleum Engineer
8:50 – 9:30
Opening Session “SPE Brazil Turbomachinery, Compressors and Pumps Symposium”
Executive Chair
Bruno Lima – Petrobras E&P Specialized Services Manager
Event Chair
Arthur Pereira – Siemens Energy Executive Director and SBO General Site Manager
David Cresta – Baker Hughes Services Sales Director LATAM
Ilton Rosseto – Petrobras Deep Water Executive Manager
9:30 – 11:30
Session 1 “Improving Machines Reliability”
The objective of this session is to discuss how to improve the reliability of machines. Market leaders will present lessons learned from real-world cases and new technologies that utilize AI and other innovations.
Chairs
Gustavo Levin – Petrobras Manager on Production Engineering for Santos Basin
Marc Daniel Berger – Everllence Regional Sales Manager – Digital & LTSA
Speakers
9:30 – 9:50 – Digital Products for Reliability Improvement: Oil Debris Monitoring, Flame Detector Solutions, Trip Reduction Program and Oil Quality Monitoring, Domenico Iasparro (Baker Hughes Senior Product Manager – iCenter Digital Services)
9:50 – 10:10 – Maximizing efficiency and performance through innovative 24/7 Technical Support and Remote Diagnostic, Rodrigo Soldatelli (Siemens Energy Global Head of Operational Monitoring and Governance)
10:10 – 10:30 – Alternative Fault Detection and Monitoring for Compressors: A Visual AI Approach for Compressor Systems, Marc Daniel Berger (Everllence Regional Sales Manager – Digital & LTSA) and Axel Fiedler (Everllence ROC Consulting Engineer Solutions Everllence CH)
10:30 – 10:50 – New technologies for varnish mitigation and increase reliability, Daniel da Silva Costa (Donaldson Manager Senior – Brazil)
10:50 – 11:30 – Questions and debates
11:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:30
Session 2A “How to carry out integrated health and human behavior management increasing value to workers and customers”
This session aims to enhance companies’ most valuable assets: their teams, promoting a discussion on best practices in health and human behavior management.
Chairs
Antonio Felipe Flutt – Petrobras Master Advisor
Bruno Lima – Petrobras – E&P Specialized Services Manager
Speakers
13:30 – 13:50 – Customized Pipeline Training: Impacts of Occupational Health on Efficiency and Well-Being in O&M; Leonardo Rigoleto Soares (Siemens Energy Health Manager)
13:50 – 14:10 – Knowledge Management and Human Capital Development of Critical Equipment based on Virtual Reality; Mario Cesaro (Baker Hughes Sr. Product Manager – Customer Training)
14:10 – 14:30 – Analysis of the Complexity of the Operator’s Role: Optimizing Human Performance in a High Demand Environment; Roberto Pompeo (Honeywell HPS Sr. Account Manager)
14:30 – 14:50 – Brazil-Global Technical Integration: Technology Transfer and Local Capacity Building for Critical Equipment Reliability; Bruna Neitzel Sepulcri (SENAI ISTEO Coordinator of the Operational Efficiency Consulting Center)
14:50 – 15:10 – Training and Knowledge Management: Building Excellent Teams, Robson Campos Leite (General Manager of Petrobras University)
15:10 – 15:30 – Questions and debates
13:30 – 15:30
Session 2B “Finding ways to improve the contracts”
The focus of this session is to discuss best practices and lessons learned from contracts, with initiatives already implemented that have created a winning environment, focusing on how to improve reliability and reduce costs.
Chairs
Jens Hueren – Managing Diretor Everllence Brasil
Paulo Vicentin – Sulzer Brazil Head of Sales & Tendering South America
Speakers
13:30 – 13:50 – Material Management: benefits of global contracts for critical parts, such air filters for gas turbine in offshore units, Ludmylla Moraes (Freudenberg S&OP and Customer Service Coordinator)
13:50 – 14:10 – Maintenance and technical support agreement models, success cases, with a focus on reliability improvement, Antonio Luis dos Santos (Sulzer Brazil ENGINEERING MANAGER) and Leandro Devanil (Sulzer Brazil Sales Manager)
14:10 – 14:30 – Rotating Equipment OEMs in the oil & gas and energy industries already leverage digital monitoring tools and applications for the fleet support for customers and operators, Simona Cozza (Baker Hughes Lead Systems Engineer, Service Engineering)
14:30 – 14:50 – O&M, LTP and Remote Operation Contract Strategies: Maximizing Efficiency and Reducing Costs, Rodrigo Amaral Manhães (Siemens Energy Project Manager)
14:50 – 15:30 – Questions and debates
15:30 – 15:50
Coffe Break
15:50 – 17:50
Session 3A “How to manage input impacts”
The objective of this session is to discuss how to manage the impact of input quality (lubricant, air, and fuel filtration) on the reliability of critical systems and understand how they can contribute to an increase or reduction in reliability.
Chairs
Italo Skovroski de Melo – Petrobras Turbomachinery Advisor
Lourenço Morucci – PRIO Operations Executive Manager
Speakers
15:50 – 16:10 – Challenges, Solutions and Operational and Economic Returns of Upgrading Existing Air Filtration Systems on Oil and Gas Platform-Based Gas Turbines, Roberto R. Daniels (AAF International Sales Director)
16:10 – 16:30 – Approach and tools for checking and updating air filtration systems in gas turbines on offshore platforms, in the search for greater operational reliability, Maxuel Lima (Freudenberg Commercial Manager for Industrial Filtration)
16:30 – 16:50 – Challenges, opportunities, and trends in turbomachinery lubrication, Charles Lima Bessa Assunção (Petrobras Chemical Engineer)
16:50 – 17:10 – Fuel gas system: Extend the system MTBM based on the adoption of new generation for fuel gas metering valve for aeroedrivative gas turbine, Rodrigo Monzillo (Baker Hughes Senior Sales Manager)
17:10 – 17:30 – Fuel, Combustion Air, and Lubricant Monitoring and Control: Programs to Maximize Efficiency and Reduce Costs, Mauro Goddio (Siemens Energy Service Engineer)
17:30 – 17:50 – Questions and debates
15:50 – 17:50
Session 3B “Reliability and environmental issues, they play on the same team”
This session will present success stories where increased system reliability helped reduce emissions and environmental impacts.
Chairs
Martin Costa – Petrobras Decarbonization Coordinator for Deep Water Assets
Rodrigo Vilela – EagleBurgmann Vice President of Business Development
Speakers
15:50 – 16:10 – Offshore spinning reserve/emission reduction improvement: a story of success in north sea based on PGT25+G4 upgrade to reduce the number of unit in operation, increase the asset reliability with final result of CO2 reduction based on the new operating profile, Emiliano Caggiano (Baker Hughes as Turbine & Plant Upgrades Manager)
16:10 – 16:30 – Optimization of Anti-Surge Control Systems with a Focus on Reducing Energy Consumption and Emissions: Field Results on FPSOs on pre-salt FPSOs, Andre Varella Guedes (Petrobras Turbomachinery Advisor), Pedro Henrique de Almeida Barbosa (Petrobras Turbomachinery Advisor) and Fabio J. Zanetti de Souza (Honeywell CCC Principal Account Manager)
16:30 – 16:50 – How Dry Gas Seals and Seal Gas Boosters can reduce gas emissions and bring operational savings, Jakson Andretta (EagleBurgmann Project Manager)
16:50 – 17:10 – Wet Seal to Dry Gas Seal Retrofits as a Tool for Operational Savings and Emissions Reduction, Taylor Monroe Birckbichler (John Crane Turbomachinery Application Engineer – Methan Emission Reduction)
17:10 – 17:30 – Innovative Approaches to Decarbonization in Oil and Gas and Power Generation, Rebecca Rouse (Siemens Energy Decarbonisation Sales Development Manager) and Kavita Murthy (Siemens Energy AGT Controls & Digital Commercial Sales Manager)
17:30 – 17:50 – Questions and debates
17:50 – 18:50
Welcome Cocktail
08:00 – 10:00
Session 4A “How maintenance can impact the results”
This session will focus on how Maintenance Management can be used as a tool to enhance reliability.
Chairs
Anivandro Bonatto – SBM Offshore Region Reliability and Maintenance Manager
Alexandre Takemoto – Petrobras General Manager Operational Efficiency of E&P Assets
Speakers
8:00 – 8:20 – Management and Importance of Integration of New Equipments in CMMS, Guillaume Magnier (Trident Energy Maintenance Manager)
8:20 – 8:40 – Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Modeling Supporting Offshore Turbogeneration Operational Strategy, Marcello Dantas (Petrobras Reliability Coordinator)
8:40 – 9:00 – Indicators as a Tool to Drive Continuous Improvement through Benchmarking of Rotating Machinery Performance in Petrobras Production Units, Guilherme Nunes Lima (Petrobras E&P Dynamic Equipment Maintenance Strategy Manager) and Flávio Marcelo Risuenho dos Santos (Petrobras Maintenance and Reliability Advisor)
9:00 – 9:20 – How to Use Predictive and Reactive Approaches on Maintenance Management, Alexandre Araújo Delgado (MODEC Rotating Equipment Reliability Coordinator)
9:20 – 10:00 – Questions and debates
08:00 – 10:00
Session 4B “Reliability and availability as relevant disciplines in the design of systems and machines”
The operators’ most recent technological advances in monitoring capacity, information processing, and speed in remote operations are creating scenarios with better working conditions. In this new environment, improving working and safety conditions will be possible, allowing a new quality of life for people who work with turbomachinery, compressors, and pumps.
Chairs
Rafael Soares Santos Oliveira – Equinor Discipline Responsible Rotating Equipment FPSO Bacalhau
Pedro Henrique de Almeida Barbosa – Petrobras Turbomachinery Advisor
Speakers
8:00 – 8:20 – Studies on Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability in the Conceptual Design Phase, Leandro Dutra (SBM Global Maintenance and Reliability Advisor)
8:20 – 8:40 – Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) Modelling of Critical Rotating Equipment in Offshore Operations: Sensitivity Analysis and RAM-Driven Impact Assessment for Techno-Commercial Decision, Support in Early Project Phases (Concept Select to FID), Frank Ehmer (Voith Turbo Senior Manager Technical Support – Geared Variable Speed Drives) and Simon Turnbull (Voith Turbo Head of Sales Europe, Africa & South America)
8:40 – 9:00 – Importance of Quality Assurance in the Execution of Manufacturing, Construction, Assembly, Installation and Commissioning Stages of Equipment, Raphael Cisneiros (Petrobras Technical Advisor)
9:00 – 9:20 – Equipment Maintainability and Reliability applied in the FPS, Carlos Eduardo de Souza Vieira (MODEC Turbomachinery Principal Engineer)
9:20 – 10:00 – Questions and debates
10:00 – 10:20
Coffee Break
10:20 – 12:20
Session 5 “How to upgrade low performance”
The session will focus on restoring the reliability of degraded systems by discussing obsolescence, retrofitting of panels and machines, upgrades, and the life cycle of critical systems.
Chairs
Rossano Bassi Pace – EagleBurgmann Engineering and Reliability Manager
Leandro D. Ramírez – Compañía Mega S.A Maintenance Supervisor
Speakers
10:20 – 10:40 – Multivariate regression models for SGT-A35-G compressors efficiency, Davi D’Elia Miranda (Petrobras Advisor Engineer)
10:40 – 11:00 – Beyond Obsolescence: A Case Study on the Modernization of a Propane Compressor Control System with a Focus on Operational Reliability and Intelligent Diagnostics, Fabio J. Zanetti de Souza (Honeywell/CCC Principal Account Manager) and Leandro D. Ramírez (Compañía Mega S.A Maintenance Supervisor)
11:00 – 11:20 – Increasing the reliability of mechanical gas seals using RCA and design upgrades – Share of Case Studies, Jakson Andretta (EagleBurgmann Project Manager)
11:20 – 11:40 – Retrofit of electrical rotating machines aiming to reestablish the reliability, Tiago Henrique Silva Faleiros (Data Engenharia Engineering Manager)
11:40 – 12:20 – Questions and debates
12:20 – 13:20
Wrapping Up and Taking Away Panel
Gilvan Amorim – Petrobras Espirito Santo Business Unit General Manager