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Siracha Oil Refinery (Laem Chabang) former ExxonMobil refinery, now operated by ThaiOil, 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 3,2 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.
