Home-made offshore oil-drilling platform marks milestone

[aimarraul]

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Home-made offshore oil-drilling platform marks milestone


The Deep Water Semi-submersible Drilling Platform docks at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co yesterday. The nation's first home-made offshore drilling platform is the most advanced kind in the world. It will be sent off for exploring oil reserves in the South China Sea at the end of the year. [Shanghai Daily]

China's first home-made offshore drilling platform has completed assembly and is expected to be sent off for exploring oil reserves in the South China Sea at the end of the year.

The Deep Water Semi-submersible Drilling Platform, valued around 6 billion yuan (US$877 million), left the dock of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co yesterday. It is the sixth generation of its type and the most advanced kind in the world.

Designed by the No. 708 Research Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation in Shanghai, the new drilling facility weighs more than 30,000 tons and is able to drill at 10,000 meters below the sea level.

After testing and a trial trip in the next few months, the new equipment should be ready for handing over to the China National Offshore Oil Corp at the end of the year for deployment in the South China Sea.

Earlier this month, Cnooc Ltd, the country's biggest offshore oil explorer, said its partner Husky Energy Inc had made a third natural gas discovery in the South China Sea.

The Liuhua 29-1 find in the Pearl River Mouth Basin was followed by two nearby findings of Liuhua 34-2 and Liwan 3-1.

Cnooc projected crude oil and natural gas production to rise 22 to 27 percent this year, to 275 million to 290 million barrels of oil equivalent.

The Waigaoqiao shipyard completed 6.05 million dead-weight tons of new vessels last year, the biggest output among domestic ship makers.

However, shipyards are seeking more income from marine products such as port equipment or drilling platforms, as the financial crisis having hurt new orders of carriers. Some ship owners even scrapped old orders to prevent overcapacity.

"We expect the income from the marine engineering sector to account for 10 percent out of our total revenue by the end of 2015," said Wang Qi, vice president of Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding.

The shipyard's marine-equipment production base is also under way in Lingang New City in the Pudong New Area and is set to be put into operation in May this year.

The 3 billion yuan new base will boost the city's advanced manufacturing sector, part of the country's strategy to enhance the ship making and heavy machinery industries.

[Adios Amigo]

good going china just keep it up

















Adios

[SXNJ]

Oil in South China Sea , we are coming

[ameer219]

OIL HAS NO FUTURE ,ITS TIME TO GO SOLAR

Are you jealous? and please intoudce yourself in Member's introduction

[Adios Amigo]

Are you jealous? and please intoudce yourself in Member's introduction

you missed his initial reply but he soon replaced it with this one, very quick realization of mistake, good for him .












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[Cityboy]

everything is ok except china home made words..its rly funny

[Goodperson]

everything is ok except china home made words..its rly funny

The titile should be "Indigenous" instead of "Home-made"

[scuthan]

everything is ok except china home made words..its rly funny

yep, veliy veliy funny

am I like indian?

[Adios Amigo]

will u do something of ur own or just clap for others.

Does our clapping and bothers you???? may be you cant sleep soundly because of the noisy claps, or may be something else, the burring feelings in the chest.

In either case, if we clap for others or do something of our own, does not need your approval, nor we care for that.

U are certainly capable of being more than a cheerleader.

Woow, thanks for recognizing our potentials, perhaps we are more capable but we might like to stay as cheerleaders, why does that bother you???





PS: your avatar is very familiar, got banned or what??? New Id may not work if you keep the same approach. I am sure, you are also capable of doing batter things.








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[mjnaushad]

Same old troller is back with new id. i recognize his avatar.

[mjnaushad]

What to do u guys love banning Indian members ,and extolling chinese.

Nope.....We love banning trollers like you.


Read the rules before posting. DUAL ID IS NOT ALLOWED.

and for you info The mod also banned staff members for few weeks on breaking rules. And even their dual id was not accepted. tu tum kon sey kheet ki mooli ho.

[grey boy 2]

Nope.....We love banning trollers like you.


Read the rules before posting. DUAL ID IS NOT ALLOWED.

and for you info The mod also banned staff members for few weeks on breaking rules. And even their dual id was not accepted. tu tum kon sey kheet ki mooli ho.

Well said brother, "Mr self-proclaim Macho man" is back ! HaHaHa

[Adios Amigo]

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We all know how impartial u r,I have seen maximum trolling by the chinese,quoting literacy rates,poverty figures and what not in all defence related sections.And that does'nt catch ur eye.

Well if you believe Chinese are trolls, you must not be liking their acts and those kinds of stuff. Its bad, isn't it???? so why to become like them, why not become something batter, something positive, something appreciable by all, there are some Indians who do the same and enjoys a lot of respect in response, try to become like them.










Adios