RINA acquisition adds engineering expertise

SeaTech provides analysis and design services, manages projects for offshore pipelines, subsea systems and structures and met-ocean monitoring systems, and also provides engineering supervision services on site.

Roberto Carpaneto, CEO, D’Appolonia, said: “Having SeaTech as part of the group helps us to consolidate our engineering expertise in the oil & gas sector, especially in the growth area of subsea systems and deep-water exploration.”

Going forward SeaTech will be 68% owned by D’Appolonia with the remaining shares held by the founders.

Seatech’s portfolio is extensive. Back in 2000, its specialists worked for Saipem in the Blues Stream project that at the time held the record for installation water depth (2150m), and was the first pipeline protected by polypropylene anticorrosion coating.

In 2003, SeaTech performed its first design of subsea structures (FLETs and PLETs) on behalf of Saibos, for the Kizomba B project.

From 2004 to 2012, it was was involved in the Kashagan project that was at that time the largest reservoir discovered in the world and had particular technical peculiarities due to the hostile environment, both onshore and offshore.

In 2013, SeaTech carried out the FEED of Bahr Essalam phase 2 project for Tecnomare and in 2015 it delivered to Edison the met-marine and structural monitoring system for the Vega platform.