Throughout 2013, Resinex has supplied to Saipem 8 big support buoys (type PEM 30 X 4600 CHAIN THROUGH – NB 22,5 TONS), specifically designed for the transport and installation of the jackets of the ice-resistant platforms in the oil fields of Korchagin and Filanovsky (Filanovskogo) of Lukoil in the Northern Caspian Sea (Russian territory, 50 km off Astrakhan).
Filanovsky field is owned by Lukoil, the largest Russian private oil company. Reserves are estimated at 153 million tons of oil and 32 billion of cubic metres of gas. They are the most consistent oil and gas reserves discovered in Russia from the last twenty years.
Infrastructures are composed of a fixed platform (ice resistant) (IRFP-1), of a modular platform for operators (LQM-1), of a central processing platform (CPP) and then of a riser block platform (RB) all linked with connection bridges. Lukoil, to install these platforms, of huge strategic importance for Russia, has chosen Saipem. The company based in San Donato has therefore designated Resinex to engineer 8 large plastic support modular buoys provided with a particular steel structure able to match perfectly the base structure of the jackets and to distribute the 180 tons of net buoyancy in a homogeneous and safe way.
The usage of these buoys has ensured that, during the positioning, there has been no need to utilize huge naval means, particularly hard to find in the Caspian Sea. The same goal was, as a matter of fact, reached by BP in 2013 for the positioning of big support pipes of the platform West Chirag in the Azerbaijani Caspian Sea. Also in this case, the 585 tons of net buoyancy given by Resinex floats, have contributed to a safe transport till the positioning place without using huge vessels.
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