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.

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.

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 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.

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.