Bangchak Refinery, a Thai energy company, has recently launched an important project to modernize its mooring system in its own port refinery. The project involves the installation of a new set of mooring buoys, intended to replace the current ones, which have become obsolete.
Resinex has supplied six large tilting-type mooring buoys, plus one spare buoy, manufactured according to the PEM 58 standard, with a height of 3 meters, a buoyancy of 61 tons, and a diameter of 5,8 mt. The buoys are equipped with three mooring hooks, each with a capacity of 125 tons, for a total Safe Working Load (SWL) capacity of 275 tons. The 6 + 1 buoys have been all designed to ensure maximum safety and reliability during tanker mooring operations.
The supply of the mooring chains and anchors has been assigned to MoorEast (Singapore), a leading company in the sector, which will also handle all the phases of the on-site installation, ensuring the correct positioning and anchoring of the new buoys.
The buoys were installed in just a few days.
