You're quite right, sir. The opportunity in the offshore oil and gas sector is significant, and what we'll be trying to do now is to marry up Canadian technology with the opportunity in Brazil. In the case of the Maritimes, I know that the Atlantic Canada governments are now looking at a trade strategy for Brazil specifically, encompassing opportunities for oil and gas sales of Canadian services. So this is a very exciting area. We obviously have extensive deep water experience in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland that we can share with the Government of Brazil. The petroleum facility in Brazil is essentially managed by the government, so this becomes, in part, a government-to-government conversation. Their procurement expectations to develop these very deep water deposits are in the billions and billions of dollars and, from what we're seeing, the estimates of the realized potential of that are quite significant.
So this is a very exciting opportunity for us, where, again, we have an opportunity to marry our expertise with what Brazil needs. So part of the conversation during these official visits to Rio, where this industry is based, was very much looking at opportunities in that sector.
And I think at the federal level we're now going to try to develop a follow-on mission that would look at oil and gas opportunities in Brazil, and also to work with our colleagues in the provinces because of the interest in Atlantic Canada in expanding its trade relationship with Brazil.