A study for the restoration of a platform-island oil terminal

The interest in off-shore multi-purpose platforms resides in the wide opportunities involved in it, for example considering the development of large marine infrastructure in the near future. An available off-shore site where testing marine energy converters (exploitation of wave, tidal and hydrokinetic energy, magnetohydrodynamic generator, linear converter) developing and implementing marine aquaculture, can short the gap to the next off-shore activities. Since near the city of Genova there is an abandoned but still well conserved and robust offshore island it is interesting evaluate the cost and intervention to restore it making it an ideal site to explore the new frontier offered by living the oceans off-shore. This paper deals with the restoration study of an existing off-shore structure for oil discharging operations sited 1 miles off the port of Multedo, in the city of Genova, propsing different exploitation scenario.