Chinanews.com, Tianjin, December 6th (Wang Junyan and Wang Zaiyu) The reporter learned from Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as COOEC) on the 6th that the largest cylindrical FPSO built in China successfully set sail in Qingdao, Shandong today. It will pass through the East China Sea and South China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and across the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea of Europe. It will take about 55 days and the total voyage will exceed 17,000 nautical miles.
The largest cylindrical FPSO built in China successfully set sail in Qingdao, Shandong today. Photo courtesy of COOEC
The penguin cylindrical FPSO set sail this time was built by COOEC for Shell Oil Company, with an overall height of 118 meters, equivalent to a 42-story residential building, and a total weight of about 32,000 tons. It is currently the heaviest cylindrical floating FPSO built in China. The production storage and unloading device is also the cylindrical "offshore oil and gas processing plant" with the highest level of automation control, the most complete intelligent data, and the most advanced design concept delivered by my country so far.
During the construction of Penguin FPSO, COOEC has successively overcome construction problems such as ultra-high-precision installation of cable fairleads and hoisting integration in narrow spaces, made breakthroughs in 5 domestic first-time application technologies, and achieved more than 20 technological innovations, with the integration speed and precision reaching the world's advanced level Level.
The largest cylindrical FPSO built in China successfully set sail in Qingdao, Shandong today. Photo courtesy of COOEC
It is understood that Penguin FPSO adopts the "dry towing" method of "ship-backed boat" for transportation. Compared with the "wet towing" directly towed by high-powered tugboats, "dry towing" has advantages in shortening the voyage period and reducing seawater impact damage. Significant advantage.
Floating loading operation is the most critical link in "dry towing" transportation, and it is also the most dangerous and accident-prone operation link.
Since the penguin FPSO weighs more than 30,000 tons, and has a cylindrical shape and a double-bottom structure, the discharge process also involves the deviation of the FPSO anode and the pier, and is affected by complex factors such as seawater tides, flow direction, and flow velocity. Extraordinarily stringent requirements are put forward for the on-site command and operators in all links.
According to Li Jiawei, Penguin FPSO project manager of COOEC, in order to ensure the smooth sailing of Penguin FPSO, the project team carefully planned, refined and disassembled the operation process, continued to improve the floating installation technical plan and special construction operation plan, and cooperated with Qingdao Maritime for many times In-depth communication with the Bureau Traffic Management Center, Qingdao Pilot Station and other relevant units, and technical clarification on the difficulties and key links in the operation, and through many desktop exercises, found and properly dealt with the obstacles of loading interference, and successfully ruled out the possibility of floating operations The risk of safety collision occurs, and finally the floating operation is completed accurately and efficiently.
In the subsequent loading and fixing operations, COOEC seized the weather window and worked continuously for 24 hours in two shifts to overcome the impact of the epidemic. It took only three days to complete all the fixing and welding operations on the ship, and successfully set sail for the Penguin FPSO Lay a solid foundation.
It is reported that the penguin cylindrical FPSO is another large-scale floating production, storage and offloading device that my country has delivered to foreign countries after the 350,000-ton ultra-large FPSO Brazil P67/P70 project, marking that my country has fully mastered all ship types of floating production, storage and offloading The construction and integrated assembly technology of the oil device has polished the golden business card of China's "high-end manufacturing" in the international floating body market.
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