From Bulletin 1999, N.2

THE STORY OF
ROSETTI MARINO

Rosetti Marino, with headquarters and shipyards in Ravenna, is specialised in the construction offshore platforms and modules, modularised offshore and onshore plants, pressurised instruments, columns and reactors, as well as heat recovery steam generators. The company operates from its own yard in the port of Ravenna. Thanks to the availability of its own loading areas, it can deliver manufactured goods of any weight and size offshore, in Italy and abroad.

The beginnings

The company's beginnings in 1925 and the first developments after the war when it began to operate in the offshore sector

Rosetti Marino was set up on the foundations of an individual company set up in 1925. At that time it was involved in activities of metal construction and mechanical metalwork.

After the war, the company began to occupy itself with repairs and conversion of ships and sea-going vessels and was included in the list of private Italian shipyards whilst the main activity remained the construction of storage tanks, silos and plants for the handling and transport of cereals.

In the sixties, Rosetti, taking its cue from the discovery of gas in Ravenna and since the beginning of hydrocarbon exploration and production activities in the Adriatic, began to build offshore platform structures.

The offshore takes off and becomes the company's main activity

In 1971, the individual company became Rosetti Marino & Figlio S.r.l. At the end of the 70's, off-shore activities became the company's main business and it acquired a loading shipyard inside the port of Ravenna.

In 1982 the company adopted Quality Assurance Criteria.

In the years 85 - 86, Rosetti began to carry out multi-disciplinary engineering works, which still play a predominant role in the company's activities today.

In 1987 the company became Rosetti Marino S.p.A.

In 1985 Rosetti Marino set up a company called Società Consortile Rosetti - Bouygues Offshore together with Bouygues Offshore (Francia), in which both partners have a 50% share.

In 1993 Rosetti established an engineering department, acquiring controlling shares of Basis S.r.l. and Fores Engineering S.r.l.

In 1996 an agreement was signed with Aalborg Keystone (ex Zurn Industries/Energy Division Inc.) to acquire the Licence to design and build horizontal Heat Recovery Steam Generators.

The most important projects

For over twenty years, Rosetti has played an important role in the offshore national and later international scenario, building platforms and modules for major Oil Companies in its own shipyard in Ravenna.

Products built in Rosetti shipyards are today installed in offshore fields in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, West Africa and the North Sea.

Amongst the most significant projects carried out, aside from numerous platforms for ENI AGIP in the Adriatic and almost all the platforms for Italian Elf, we can mention the accommodation modules with heliport and the drilling modules of Vega for Selm, the bridges of Edop and Oso for Mobil Nigeria, all the topsides of the Zatchi field of Agip Congo, the integrated bridge of Kitina for the same client, the drilling modules of Tiffany for AGIP U.K. and the electrical generation and gas compression modules for the Nkossa field for Elf Congo.

Today the latest works completed include other decks for Elf Congo (Kombi and Likalala), a deck for AGIP Gabon and the first complete platform for InAgip, for the Ivana field in Croatian waters.

An important contract relating to separation and treatment modules for Statoil's Asgard B platform is currently under way.

The experience acquired, in particular in these product types for the offshore, has made it possible to extend the company's interests, firstly to plant engineering and the plant mechanical components and then to multi-disciplinary works.

In the last few years Rosetti has included design and engineering in its activities through subsidiary companies, in this way managing to improve its own capacity to fulfill work orders and equipping itself with the tools needed to carry out turnkey contracts and EPCs and to provide guarantees on the performance of its products.

Today Rosetti is the leader of a group of companies whose activities range from engineering and maintenance, to contracts for the offshore field, as well as the energy sector and ship building.