The domestic Marine engineering equipment industry climbed from the freezing point

At present, China has entered the second echelon of the global offshore equipment industry, but the offshore equipment industry is still weak in terms of design capacity, supporting capacity and total contracting capacity. Shanghai is the forefront of scientific and technological innovation in the Marine industry, with a complete industrial chain and a strong industrial foundation, forming an advantage in the research and development of Marine engineering equipment. Following specialization and internationalization, adhering to openness and collaboration, a new offshore equipment innovation research and development platform is gathering strength in Shanghai.

"Now the demand for oil and gas is still very strong, but the demand for offshore engineering equipment is not too high. However, there is still a relatively stable demand for offshore production equipment, and we are also cooperating with CNOOC to invest in overseas projects." Marine engineering equipment "veteran" Ni Mingjie picked up the commemorative cup of "Offshore oil 111" trial 20 years ago, drank a sip of water, and continued to analyze the current offshore equipment market. On the drawings taken from the office wall are different kinds of offshore equipment, which Ni Mingjie has dealt with for more than 20 years as the head of the overall design department of China Ocean Engineering Equipment Technology Development Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "China Sea Engineering").

"Offshore Oil 111" is the first offshore equipment built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., LTD. This decorated tanker has taken root in the South China Sea for 20 years, and the "offshore oil city" has exported 50 million tons of crude oil for the country. Looking back to the 1960s and 1970s, when China's offshore equipment development started, Shanghai did a lot of work, the first semi-submersible drilling platform "Exploration No. 3" was designed and built in Shanghai, and the first floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) "Bohai Friendship" was also built by Hudong Shipyard. Offshore equipment construction is etched in Shanghai's DNA.

Wu Donglin, director of the Major equipment Industry Department of Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, said that Shanghai is not only the birthplace of China's modern shipbuilding industry, but also the forefront of scientific and technological innovation in the Marine industry, with a complete industrial chain and a strong industrial foundation, forming an advantage in the research and development of Marine engineering equipment.

At present, China has entered the second echelon of the global offshore equipment industry, but the offshore equipment industry is still weak in terms of design capacity, supporting capacity and total contracting capacity. Following specialization and internationalization, adhering to openness and collaboration, a new offshore equipment innovation research and development platform is gathering strength in Shanghai.

Starting, freezing and climbing: Marine equipment is difficult

Marine engineering equipment is the general term of all kinds of equipment used in the development, utilization and protection of the ocean, and is the premise of the development of Marine economy. In front of Ni Mingjie's desk, hanging a classification chart of Marine equipment, there are exploration, drilling, production equipment, only drilling equipment, and drilling ships, jack-up and semi-submersible drilling platforms. These offshore oil and gas resource development equipment is like completing B-ultrasound inspection for the earth, drilling Wells after discovering oil reservoirs, and finally exploiting the underground oil and gas with the help of production equipment.

In the 1960s and 1970s, with the demand for offshore oil and gas exploitation in China, the Marine engineering equipment manufacturing industry gradually started. From the establishment of China's first fixed offshore drilling platform in Bohai Bay in 1966, to the construction of China's first catamaran drilling pontoon "Exploration No. 1" in the 1970s by using two 3,000-ton old cargo ships of Shanghai Shipping Bureau, these offshore engineering platforms have opened the prelude to China's offshore oil development. In 1984, China independently designed and built the first semi-submersible drilling platform "Exploration No. 3" began service, marking that China became a few countries that could independently design and build such platforms at that time.

Semi-submersible drilling platform "Exploration 3".

European and American companies are pioneers in the development of the world's offshore oil and gas resources, as well as leaders in the development of the world's offshore engineering equipment technology. In the late 1980s, a group of large European and American oil companies entered the field of offshore oil development in China. They brought new ideas and advanced offshore equipment. In contrast, there is an obvious gap in the technical performance of the equipment designed and built independently in China. Coupled with the low world energy prices at that time, the domestic and overseas offshore equipment demand is not prosperous, under the double impact, China's offshore equipment field in the 1990s, the development of slow, the overall technical level and foreign gap further widened.