In autumn 2013 Resinex was chosen by Bluewater as a supplier of 125 deep-sea floats used by Petrobras for their UOTE Offshore Terminal in Brazil
In Autumn 2013 Resinex was chosen by Bluewater as supplier of 125 Deep Water Floats to be used by Petrobras on its UOTE terminal offshore Brazil.
The floats were tested at 11.4 bars to withstand the pressure of 80 metres underwater. Net buoyancy of floats goes from 265 to 340 Kg.
The FSO hosts the Unidade Offshore de Transferencia e Exportacao (UOTE) and it is positioned 55 km off Rio de Janeiro at a water depth of 75 metres.
UOTE is a high sea advanced terminal, designed to transfer oil from a dynamic positioning (DP) vessel to an FSO which, in turn, distributes the load to two buoys which transfer oil to shuttle tankers responsible to transport the oil to its final destination.
The submarine hoses (supplied by Flexomarine-BR) on which Resinex Deep Water Floats are positioned, have the purpose to transfer oil to the FSO (70 meters below sea level) where they are connected to the PLEMs and PLETs and distribute to the buoys which offload to the exporting vessels.
