Energy Ambassador Pentti Itkonen spent last week in Ecuador visiting for example the Eden Yuturi oil field, where Wärtsilä, VEO, VAMP and Leinolat Group have a joint project that has updated the oil field. Due to the update the oil field can now make energy from the natural gas that comes as a bi product when pumping oil. Since Eden Yuturi is in a very remote area, the energy ambassador was flown there by helicopter. The oil fields staff works two weeks and then they are off for two weeks.

A very remote area doesn’t however mean that it is a boring place: “There are many opportunities for sports in the residential area of the power plant. I had the great opportunity to play soccer with the OGE amigos team. To play soccer in the rainforest was quite an experience and a very sweaty business!” Pentti writes in his blog.

During his two day visit at the oil field the energy ambassador had one important goal in mind: to find as much technology from the Vaasa energy cluster as possible.

“Eden Yuturi is quite a large area, where Wärtsilä has for ten years’ time supplied many plants and plant extensions. There were many buildings to search in. I started my quest from the easier part and I didn’t have to search for long to find Wärtsilä’s house sized engines, pounding day and night producing electricity from a variety of fuels.”

Read Pentti´s blog to find out what else he found during his treasure hunt

Pentti spends this week in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, to see how Wärtilä´s solutions can be implemented both responsibly and successfully into Brazil´s growing ship and offshore markets. The host company for this week’s program is Wärtsilä. In the new Hard Talk -video Juha Kytölä from Wärtsilä presents the company´s business in general, as well as the operations in Brazil which Pentti will familiarize himself with.

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