Resinex

Resinex Riser Shims for the new Saipem 12000 vessel

tita — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:53:00 +0000

The new Saipem 12000 vessel is using the floats type Riser Shims manufactured by Resinex to equip the steel pipes used for the oil drilling in deep water. The vessel of the engineering company of the Eni group, built in the Samsung Heavy Industries yards in South Korea is provided with these floats.
The 89 special floats have been manufactured with an external shell in orange Elastorex and filled with a syntactic compound able to withstand a hydrostatic pressure of 370 bars. Consequently they can safely work at a water depth of 12.000 feet, just shy of 4.000 metres.
They have a high elasticity and an excellent resistance to any crash and have been tested at Resinex Marine Research Centre in Adro (BS), one of the most equipped laboratories in Europe for the tests of very high depths.
A complete riser shim, has an external diameter of 1,464 metres and an internal diameter of 0,546. It is 2 metre long and weighs 2000 kilos.
Resinex Riser Shims are used to equip steel riser joints, hoses complete of auxiliary lines clamps, of a length of 90 feet (27 metres) each, equipped with the vessel.
Even before being finished, the Saipem 12000, was hired for a period of 5 years (more two years of option) by the French company Total. It will be used until the first quarter of 2015 for the development of the Pazflor oilfield in the Angola offshore. It is able to work in deep waters up to 12.000 feet.

Also Resinex booms in the Gulf of Mexico

tita — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:20:47 +0000

Also Resinex has taken part in the race against time to save the coasts of Louisiana and Florida from the black oil tide which has overstep the Gulf of Mexico due to the leak which has open after the tragedy of the BP platform.
Our company has manufactured hundreds of metres of floating antipollution barriers which already left Rovato (Italy) destined to the US.
Our catalogue includes numerous types of systems of different dimensions and sizes to protect the coasts, the bays and for the containment of the oil spilling and other polluting substances.
A couple of thousands of metres of these floating barriers were shipped to the US during the first days of the emergency, while others are being produced.
It is a really race against time and Resinex is able to supply one thousand metres of barriers per week.

Buoy modules for RXT in Brazil

tita — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:18:09 +0000

Reservoir Exploration Technology (RXT), the Norwegian company specializing in geophysic relief of the seabed exploration on behalf of the oil industry and sysmic control has been furnished with Resinex support floats assembled on surface buoys destined for the new operational field in Brazil.
These are floating modules which support an installation for registering signals from the seabed.
After the delivery of 40 medium depth buoys (300 metres) the Scandinavian company confirms the choice of Resinex technology for its seabed mapping operation.

Among the Antartic ice

tita — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:05:57 +0000

It was tested twice. The first time in February 2009 in the Black Sea by the Nato alliance research ship.
The second time in the central Ligurian sea by the Italian naval ship Tavolara.
We are speaking about the Resinex model RS6 buoy which is destined to carry out scientific experiments in the gelid waters of the Antartic.
It will be part of the national research programme in Antartica, an Italian project which is studying planetary phenomena.

Otranto: canal monitoring

tita — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:35:13 +0000

The National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (Ogs) of Trieste has installed an instrument monitoring buoy in the Otranto canal as part of a European project.
This is a floating system connected to a depth of 1.200 metres and fitted instruments and sensors in order to carry out profiles of the wind and water.
For this project a Resinex model Pem18 buoy was used with a float of 1.8 metre diameter with a signalling lantern.
The power is guaranteed by solar panels.

Anti-tsunami system in the Southern Chinese sea

tita — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:28:07 +0000

The two early warning anti tsunami system consigned to the state oceanographic administration of the People’s Republic of China that are to be positioned in the South China Sea will be utilizing Resinex buoys. This is the marine component of the system and is made up of two Poseidon class Envirtech tsunamimetres positioned at a depth of about 4.000 metres and supported by two oceanic Resinex buoys built to resist force 12 seas and of two mooring lines formed by Resinex Synt floats studied for 4 thousand metre depths. The system will have to remaining the sea for two consecutive years without maintenance in a zone continually bombarded by tropical typhoons. The buoys, extremely stable, will have to withstand 120 plus kilometre winds and 12 metre plus waves, conditions which are, by now, very frequent in the South China Sea.
The system is composed of two monitoring stations dislocated at a depth potentionally covering between 500 and 7.000 metres which transmits pressure parameters taken from the seabed and relays them to the surface buoy which in turn transmits the information via satellite to a control centre situated in Beijing therefore giving the alarm for a tsunami generated off the southern Chinese coast.

Nemo, the telescope in the Mediterranean to look at the sky

tita — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:49:41 +0000

Descending until and beyond 3 thousand metres under the level of the sea even though it was projected to sustain pressures until 400 bars can be found the experimental Nemo project (Neutrino Mediterranean Observatory) which the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Infn) has in course to create a telescope of a new conception, baptised “Kilometro cubo” (Cubic kilometer).
The syntactic foam floats which support this installation are Resinex products, just as those used in 2005 during the first phase of the experiment. In the light of experience the new buoys have been made thinner, obtaining greater modularity. Purposely studied for deep water, they were positioned at the base of the mini towers which give support to the structure and are currently in the test phase. The Nemo project foresees the construction of a big submerged antenna in order to reveal high energy neutrins coming from astrophysic sources. Revealing the presence of neutrins could extend the knowledge of the actual astronomy which is based on the revealing of photons, that is light and electromagnetic radiation.
It also represents the biggest monitoring station (oceanographic, geophysical, chemical and acoustic) in the marine environment as well as a pole of technology development for the exploration of the abyss. The definite location will probably be off Cape Passero (Sicily), which will permit the telescope to be positioned at a depth of about 3.500 metres and some 100 kilometres off the coast of Sicily. Under this stretch of water, the telescope will be in optimum position of darkness in respect to low energy cosmic radiation that at a more shallow level would counter it and not allow the observation of the neutrins. It will extend for two square kilometres and is made up of 81 750-metre high towers with about 5.000 light sensors.

Vulcanology at 6.000 metres

tita — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:08:31 +0000

The national institute of geophysic and vulcanology of Rome (INGV), which carries out a precius work regarding sysmic research and vulvanology is also involved in the study of underwater telluric phenomena. It manages among others a large band Mediterranean MedNet sysmic net which continuously monitors in deep water, arriving to depths of 6 thousand metres. Also Ingv turns to Resinex technology to have reliable and sure deep water syntactic foam modules which is by now able to produce floats which can support pressures of up to 1.100 bars.

The Saipem’s 600

tita — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:23:25 +0000

The project is of colossal dimensions and long term. It is being carried out, on behalf of Aramco, by Snamprogetti Saudi Arabia and the consortium Star (Saipem, Taqa, Al-Rushaid).
It foresees the construction and installation of 27 offshore platforms for the extraction of oil and gas at sea including the positioning of conducts and cables. This is the first time such an undertaking of this kind and size is being carried out on the Saudi Arabian coast.
The initial agreement has a duration of seven years and foresees a renewal option. The work is taking place at a site of 300 thousand metres at the port of King Abdulaziz at Dammam with an access to deep water. It has about 900 workers and an initial production capacity of 14 thousand tonnes of steel per annum. It is here that the construction of the platforms has already begun and will be launched in the next few years.
In the next four years the positioning of at least 14 platforms is foreseen with 80 kilometres of pipeline and related cables. A project of this size and investment naturally demands the maximum quality of all the components including those collateral.
As the positioning of the opera draws closer, it is inevitable that, regarding the floating components, the project team should turn to Resinex. In order to give support to the transport, positioning and placing of the platforms, an order for 600 Resinex support buoys, model E8×1050 with a net buoyancy of 500 kilograms, arrived from Saudi Arabia.
Also for the same project, 39 damage prevention buoys in elastomer of the 4500 L type with a net buoyancy of 4,5 tonnes were ordered. All the buoys supplied for this project have been fitted with a radio frequency detector, a type of identity card in order to know the characteristics of the buoy from a distance.

Stainless steel beacons

tita — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:09:05 +0000

Even the tourist port of Rodi Garganico situated in Southern of Italy on the Puglia Adriatic coast, utilizes Resinex signalling. The Cidonio company, which realised the infrastructure, was supplied with a fixed pole and two land beacons all of which were made in stainless steel.

These last two, one red and one green, were placed at the port entrance. They have a focal plane of 6,5 metres and are fitted with a Led light which has a range of 6 nautical miles.

An yellow fixed pole instead signals the ferry landing area.