【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Engineering Equipment】959–2009: China’s First 300,000-ton FPSO Completely Designed and Built Independently

“The Ocean Oil 117 is China’s first 300,000-ton class offshore floating production, storage and offloading vessel that was fully designed and constructed independently. With a length of over 300 meters and a width of over 60 meters, its deck can accommodate around 3 Boeing 747 aircraft. The amount of steel used in its construction is equivalent to the total amount of steel used in constructing about 7 Eiffel Towers. The FPSO is large in size, complex in design, and presents significant challenges in terms of risk management. Its completion and commissioning signify that China is now among the world’s leaders in the design and construction of FPSOs. As an important gathering and transportation center for the oil fields in its area, over the course of 14 years of development, \"Offshore Oil 117\" has grown to handle an increasing volume of crude oil and natural gas from the surrounding oil and gas fields, becoming well-known as a \"big eater\".

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China’s first 300,000-ton offshore floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), the \"Haiyang Shengyu 117\", which was entirely designed and built independently, was named and delivered in Shanghai on April 30, 2007. This is the largest, most expensive, and technologically advanced FPSO construction project built in China to date, marking that China is at the forefront of FPSO design and construction worldwide. Its Chinese name is ’’Ocean Oil 117’’. It is 323 meters long and 63 meters wide, and was delivered on April 30, 2007. The ship features a double-bottom and double-hull structure; its length of 323 meters and width of 63 meters is equivalent to the area of 3 standard football fields. From the ship’s bottom to the chimney, it is 71 meters, which is equivalent to the height of 24 floors. It can process 190,000 barrels of qualified crude oil per day, with a storage capacity of up to 2 million barrels of crude oil. It is equipped with an upper structure for 140 people to work and live in, as well as a helicopter pad. The ship is designed for a service life of 25 years; it remains moored in a fixed location for that entire period using a soft-rigid arm single-point mooring system installed at the bow, and is capable of withstanding once-in-a-century sea conditions. On March 12, 2009, the 300,000-ton offshore floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) named \"Ocean Oil 117\", built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., was successfully deployed at the Penglai 19-3 oil field. “The Ocean Oil 117 is China’s first 300,000-ton class FPSO that was fully designed and built independently, and it is also the largest offshore engineering project completed in China to date. The FPSO has a total length of over 323 meters and a beam width of over 63 meters; its oil storage capacity is 2 million barrels, with a daily processing capacity for crude oil of 190,000 barrels, resulting in an annual processing volume of 10 million cubic meters. According to officials from China National Offshore Oil Engineering Co., Ltd., the engineers completed tasks such as replacing the towboats, positioning them, connecting the cross-cables, and removing the temporary buoys in just two days, and also successfully carried out the pre-installation of the mooring legs and YOKE flanges.

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