The domestic Marine engineering equipment industry climbed from the freezing point

Known as one of the top ten ships in China, "Bohai Friendship" is the first FPSO independently developed by China. It was officially put into production in July 1989. It is a major offshore oil development facility integrating functions such as crude oil processing, offshore oil depot and oil unloading terminal. Its completion has achieved a breakthrough in the design and construction of China's floating production and storage vessel, and the world's first floating production and storage vessel has been used in the sea area with ice.

"We have a certain technical reserve, FPSO at that time in the country or have the possibility of breakthrough." In the 1980s and 1990s, we developed a number of FPsos, trained and retained a professional team of FPsos." Ni Mingjie said that since then, CNOOC's new FPSO all adopted domestic design and construction, after more than 10 consecutive projects of engineering practice, continuous iteration and maturity of technology, the dozen FPSO has made important contributions to China's energy security.

Ni Mingjie has more than 20 years of experience in the development and design of offshore equipment. After graduating from university in 1996, he entered the 708th Research Institute of China State Shipbuilding Group, where he stayed for 26 years. In 2001, he participated in the construction of the "Offshore Oil 111" FPSO, the first offshore equipment built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., LTD., and he still keeps the commemorative water cup of the "Offshore Oil 111" trial voyage in 2003. "Domestic offshore equipment is considered to be 'two male', one is the Bohai Sea rim area, that is, Dalian, Yantai, Qingdao and other places, to jack-up drilling platforms and semi-submersible drilling platforms, but also to build FPSO." The other is Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta, where a lot of RIGS and FPsos have been built."

FPSO cost is high, the production process is complex, the equipment and facilities are highly integrated, and the construction is difficult. However, Wang Rong said, "In the past two years, the market for offshore production equipment is good, the FPSO market needs to be deeply mined, its supporting equipment chain is long, and the construction capacity of domestic FPSO is also very strong, so it has a good development basis."

Ranked in the second echelon of the world, there is a long way to go to make up for the shortcomings

The development of the global Marine engineering equipment industry has basically formed a competitive pattern of three echelons. The first echelon is dominated by European and American countries, which basically monopolizes research and development, preliminary design, offshore construction, engineering project contracting and the supply of core key equipment. The second tier consists of South Korean and Singaporean companies, mainly responsible for final assembly construction, large module construction and installation of core key equipment.

From the point of view of the Marine industry chain, Wang Rong said, "We are now relatively strong is the final assembly and construction. At present, there are three countries with relatively large final assembly and construction volume: China, South Korea and Singapore. Our final assembly and construction capacity is comparable to that of Singapore. We can say that after more than 50 years of development, our country has now joined the second echelon."

Shipyard offshore construction orders in 2022.

Although it ranks in the second echelon, there are still shortcomings and weaknesses in China's offshore equipment industry in terms of design capability, supporting capability and total contracting capability. Before 2010, China's offshore equipment and ships were not "separated", and the product-oriented point-like promotion of offshore equipment led to the absence of an important link in this industrial chain.

"Compared with the shipbuilding industry, the offshore equipment industry has a different industrial chain and supply chain. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's shipbuilding industry has established a relatively complete industrial system including research institutes, manufacturing enterprises, supporting equipment and maintenance services. The offshore equipment manufacturing industry involves many fields, and the distribution is relatively dispersed. Like ship and related equipment manufacturing, mining, metallurgy, construction special equipment manufacturing, all include Marine engineering equipment manufacturing, all kinds of equipment supporting enterprises for Marine platforms are scattered in petroleum and petrochemical, ships, machinery and other fields, quite a lot of equipment is dedicated to Marine platforms, but also not on the ship." Wang Rong suggested that at present, the offshore equipment industrial system urgently needs to be established and improved, and it is necessary to open up the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain and the supply side as soon as possible.