The Oil Industry and the Brazilian Translation market
By Marcos Chiquetto
Today, in Brazil, the oil industry poses a strong demand for translation services. The global oil technology companies need, basically, two kinds of service in this area:
Translation of Technical Documents
The largest oil enterprise in Brazil is the state- owned company Petrobras, which purchases high volumes of products and services in the global market. When a global company sells something to Petrobras, the commercial contract may require that the technical documentation and the software modules be provided in Portuguese. Therefore, a translation is necessary.
Translation Related to Company Management and Institutional Communication
If the company has offices in Brazil, their management-related material (such as HR and accounts payable/receivable procedures), as well as internal software systems, must be in Portuguese. Moreover, the corporate communication with stakeholders (such as websites, mission statements, and advertisement) also must be in the Brazilian language.
To cope with these demands, oil companies hire translation agencies, which can be multilingual agencies based in the US or Europe, or Brazilian agencies.
Usually, those companies feel more comfortable hiring an agency in the US or Europe, especially one with whom they have already worked with in the past. They know that the agency will send the translation job to a Brazilian translation provider, and believe the agency has the necessary know-how to choose its vendors, what is true in general. That is, the quality of the provided translation is likely to be good.
On the other hand, if the company hires directly a high-level Brazilian agency for the job, they can have that same quality, at a lower cost.
But, how can you choose a reliable vendor in an foreign country?
Our agency — Latinlanguages — is a perfect choice. We have long-term partnerships with dozens of multilingual agencies based in the US and Europe, which send us their translation jobs targeting Portuguese. Therefore, when a global company purchases translation into Portuguese from these agencies, they are, in fact, purchasing services from us.
We have been in the global translation industry for 35 years. Visit our website to have more information on our company:
Should you need translation for Latin America, don´t hesitate to contact us. You will have world-class service at Brazilian prices.
Marcos Chiquetto is an engineer, physics teacher, translator, and writer. He is the director of LatinLanguages, a Brazilian translation agency specialized in providing multilingual companies with translation into Portuguese and Spanish.
