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In autumn 2008 the group SBM, working as suppliers to the offshore oil and gas industry on a global basis, has purchased some Resinex support buoys to use them in water depth in Brazil during its activities of cable positioning for the Chevrons Frade field offshore production project, involving heavy oil and located in the Campos basin.
Budgeted at US $ 2.6 billion, the Frade development project includes 19 wells and will be exploited through an SBM FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel). The final connection of a well to the FPSO will take place in 2011, when Chevron expects to reach the field’s production peak of 80,000 barrels/day.
The eighteen deep water floats which Resinex supplied to SBM have the following dimensions 210x120x210 centimetres, weigh 2900 kilos and are able to reach a nett buoyancy of 2100 kilos.
They are rotationally moulded in linear polyethylene and they are filled with a special syntactic material, which has been mixed and tested in the Resinex laboratories and they can withstand pressures up to 2000 meters water depth.
