Maintenance and Reliability Expert Mauricio Viana to lead Asset Integrity Management for ABL South America
ABL – the energy and marine consultants – has appointed asset management, maintenance and reliability expert, Mauricio Viana as Asset Integrity Manager for South America, supporting clients with achieving safe, efficient, and profitable operations across the region.
Mauricio brings a 15-year career in mechanical engineering, commissioning, operations, maintenance and reliability management roles in the chemical, petrochemical, and oil and gas industries and will head up the division from Brazil.
Throughout ABL’s established Central and South American operations in Brazil, Panama and Mexico, Mauricio will bolster our Asset Integrity Management (AIM) portfolio to bring strategic asset management, maintenance, inventory, and data optimisation solutions to our clients that drive efficiencies and increase their operational excellence. These services will enhance operations for clients across renewables, maritime and oil & gas markets. Mauricio will also support in markets where we have a growing consultancy presence, for example ABL’s sister company OWC in Colombia and Costa Rica.
“With ABL’s well established portfolio of services in the oil and gas, maritime and energy markets in South America, now including AIM, Mauricio is in a great position to unlock opportunities for clients with solutions that will increase operational excellence across their projects and assets. Another area of considerable expansion where we are excited to have Mauricio drive the AIM support, especially in Brazil, is renewable energy and energy transition, where ABL also has a successful existing foundation,”
comments Andreas Theophanatos, Regional Director for Brazil.
As part of the AIM expansion, Mauricio will also showcase ABL’s software suite to the South America region, including the award-winning AssetVoice, Effio, and ePAV. Effio has been used successfully on multiple oil and gas projects and clients, including supermajors, international oil companies and renewable energy facilities and AssetVoice is tracking assets and managing change across varying industries such as oil and gas rental services and the healthcare sector.
Expressing his excitement about joining ABL, Mauricio states,
“I am delighted to be a part of ABL’s AIM expansion into Central and South America. Throughout my career in maintenance and reliability management roles, I have always noticed a lack of specialised and customised asset integrity management support. ABL’s technical offering in AIM benefits from the multi-disciplined marine and engineering expertise of the wider ABL Group, a recognised reputation in driving efficiencies in marine and energy markets, a global track-record, and an expanding suite of proprietary software products.”
ABL’s AIM offering includes strategic asset management, maintenance, inventory, and data optimisation solutions that enable operations across the globe to be safe, efficient, and profitable. Expanding the AIM portfolio to the Central and South American region signals ABL’s commitment to technical and service excellence, providing innovative end-to-end solutions that allow our clients across energy and oceans to receive unparalleled support throughout the entire lifecycle of their projects.