160 years Shipbuilding History. (Caption)

30 Years Offshore Engineering Endeavor History (Caption)

10 Years Offshore Engineering Ship Development history. (Caption)

 
 

 

Over the years, Huangpu Shipbuilding has always remained unshakable and become more and more powerful and innovative as time went by. Thirty years ago and under the reform and opening-up policy, Huangpu Shipbuilding took the lead in the Offshore Engineering market to successfully build the first jack-up drilling platform “Huahai 1” in China and then the drilling platform “Nanhai 2” was successfully repaired. Subsequently, the W10-3 single-point mooring, the W11-4 wellhead platform, and the living modules were built. It is the earlier domestic shipyard in the development of offshore petroleum platform and well-experienced in building petroleum platforms.

In the early decade of the new century, Huangpu Shipbuilding has especially witnessed the rapidest development with outstanding achievements and leapfrog development in shipbuilding capability. The shipbuilding capability can be reached up to ten thousand tons. The production scale has been doubled and one shipyard enlarges to two, as one of the key large-scale shipyards and the Offshore Engineering products building base of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). The civil products comprise of three series including public service ship, commercial cargo ship and Offshore Engineering ship. We have successfully built such Offshore Engineering products as small water-plane area twin-hull vessel, 6500 HP electrical propulsion stand-by vessel, 8000 HP oilfield anchor handling tug supply vessel, 8000 kW Salvage Vessel , 14000 kW marine Salvage Vessel, 400t shallow water floating crane and pipe-laying vessel, 50000t semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, 3000m deep-water engineering surveying vessel, and oil recovery vessel etc. We have realized the leapfrog development so that the products range from the small and medium-scale ships to the large-scale ships with high technologies and high value added. As a key Offshore Engineering building base in the South China.

 

Since 2002, Huangpu Shipbuilding has engaged in Offshore Engineering auxiliary ship market and contracted for building a 6500 HP electrical propulsion stand-by ship for CNOOC. This ship is the first electrical propulsion ship independently developed in China. Its first plating was cut on June 10, 2003 and delivered on August 30, 2004.

This 6500 HP anchor handling tug supply vessel (owned by CNPC), unrestricted navigation area, with overall length of 69.60m, width of 14.80m, depth of 6.90m, displacement 3760 tons, maximum speed 14.5 knots, endurance 8000 nautical miles, and 60 days self-sustaining capacity.

With successful building the M/V “Offshore Petroleum 623”, we have contracted with CNPC and CNOOC for 6500 HP  anchor handling tug supply vessels  and 8000 HP anchor handling tug supply vessels.

The 8000HP anchor handling tug supply vessel is 72.5m long, 15m wide, and 7m in depth, with a speed of 15 knots, an endurance of 7500 nautical miles, and a self-sustaining capacity of 30 days. It is served as a main tug or an accompanying ship for platforms or the other large-scale floating structures at sea, performing tasks such as security guard, rescue, and salvage for a platform or the other offshore structures; supplying material for platform;  handling anchors for platforms and floating cranes. It is designed with Class FiFi-1 fire-fighting capacity and unrestricted navigation area.

In the process of building anchor handling tug supply vessel, we have researched a series of optimization and have been master of critical technologies designing and building a anchor handling tug supply vessel.

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Since the beginning of the new centaury and with rapid growth of Chinese economy, the ocean exploitation and marine transportation have more rapidly developed. In the new century, the Chinese salvage cause has made a quick progress. The Bureau of Rescue and Salvage under the Ministry of Transportation of the People’s Republic of China makes elaborate efforts to establish a 3D rescue and salvage system at sea and in the air under a human-oriented concept in governance. It was imperative to build state-of-the-art marine salvage ships. On April 16, 2004, a contract for the first three 8000 kW rescue and salvage ships were made by and between Huangpu Shipbuilding and the Bureau of Rescue and Salvage, as a preclude building marine rescue ships. Totally fifteen 8000 kW marine salvage ships and one 14000 kW marine salvage ship have been built for the Bureau of Rescue and Salvage by Huangpu Shipbuilding. And, the sequential two 14000 kW marine salvage ships are under building now. Huangpu Shipbuilding has become a major base building marine salvage ships in China.

The 8000 kW marine salvage ship is the rescue equipment playing a leading role in the Ministry of Transportation of the People’s Republic of China, with magnificent shape and excellent equipment, as a world-class professional rescue force. It is 98.00m long, 15.20m wide, and 7.60m in depth, with a length between perpendiculars of 88.00m, a designed draft of 5.60m, a displacement of 4405.9 ton, a speed of 20.35 knots, a bollard pull of 1050 kN, an endurance of 10000 nautical miles, and a self-sustaining capacity of 30 days, satisfying the requirements of China Classification Society （CCS）for unrestricted navigation area, resistant to Grade 12 wind. This ship is designed with smooth hull shape, advanced equipment, stronger capacity resistant to wave and wind, advanced fire-fighting equipment, strong rescue capacity and tugging equipment, world-class lifesaving and first-aid equipment etc. It is mainly used for rescue and first-aid of the wrecking ships and personnel at sea, carrying 100 rescued persons. It is designed with Class I fire-fighting ability and with rescue capacity. It can tow the buoy and it also can lift and float a sinking ship. It may long range tug ships at sea. The sequential marine salvage ships will continuously be optimized. They are provided with helicopter platform, improving the 3D rescue capacity.

The 14000 kW marine salvage ship is designed with the largest water displacement, provided with the most advanced equipment, with the fullest function of rescue, and provided for a rescue helicopter in China at present. This ship is 109.7 m long, 16.2 m wide, and 7.6m deep, with a full-load draft of 6 m, a full-load displacement of 6256.76 tons, a maximum speed of 22 knots, and a bollard pull of 1400 kN.

After the secure ships built by Huangpu Shipbuilding are delivered, news of successes keeps pouring in. It gives great contribution in undertaking national major offshore watch, guaranteeing launch of “Shenzhou 7”, and performing emergent, difficult, dangerous and important tasks at sea.

 

 

On September 26, 2010, we commenced to build two Oil Recovery Vessels for China Offshore Environmental Service (Tianjin) Co. Ltd. This ship is mainly used for offshore petroleum exploration, including recovery of waste liquid in the process of exploration and testing process, recovery spillage oil at sea, also as an auxiliary offshore engineering ship. It is 75m long, 15.2m wide and 7 m in depth. It is provided with main engines of 4×1471 kW, a designed displacement of 3956.7 tons, a maximum speed not less than 15.2 knots. It is a special ship with the largest horsepower and the fullest functions among the equivalent oil recovery vessels in China at present. This model of ship is welding steel hull, transverse frame, with a continuous main deck. The hull structure is designed with double bottom and double shell. It is equipped with four main engines and double controllable pitch propellers, double streamline type of hanging flap rudder, forward inclined bow, and cruiser type of stern. The main deck after the long forecastle is provided with areas for deck loading, rescue, and helicopter. Most of this ship has been built and it will be completed in the near future.

 

 

A contract was made by and between Huangpu Shipbuilding and CNPC for building a 400t shallow water floating crane and pipe-laying vessel on July 28, 2008. It was commenced on April 15, 2009 and was completed and delivered on September 30, 2010.

This ship is 120.5m long, 32.2m wide, and 6.5m in depth with a full-load displacement of 14000 tons, and minimum operating draft of 2.4m. The pipe-laying line is longitudinally arranged on the starboard side of the main deck, capable of laying pipes water depth less than 40m. On the stern of this ship, a crane with a lift capacity of 400 tons is arranged. The upper accommodation deck is arranged with a helicopter platform, satisfying the requirement for landing and taking-off a BEII212 type of helicopter.

The shallow water floating crane and pipe-laying vessel is a typical large-scale Offshore Engineering equipment. It is indispensable important equipment for such Offshore Engineering as production of offshore oil and gas field, laying of transferring pipeline, offshore platform support, offshore oversized equipment lifting, and rescue and salvage etc.

Successful building of the 400t shallow water floating crane and pipe-laying vessel marks that Huangpu Shipbuilding reached a new high in the area of Offshore Engineering ship building.

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The 50000t semi-submersible heavy lift vessel built through cooperation between Huangpu Shipbuilding and Guangzhou Shipyard International Company Limited is the largest special transportation ship with world-leading high technology and high value added in Asia at present. It is mainly used for shipping such large-scale objects as offshore platform, jacket, gantry crane, and military facilities etc, known as an “Offshore Forklift”.

The contract of two ships was made on October 30, 2007 and the first vessel was commenced on August 28, 2008 and was completed on December 30, 2010. Its overall length is 216.7m, 43.0m in width, 13.0m in depth, designed draft 9.85m, loading capacity is 50000 tons, submersible draft 26.0m, and a maximum speed not less than 14 knots. It is equiped with dual propellers, dual rudders, dual bow thrusters, and four units of main diesel engine driven generators and electrical propulsion device. The main device of propulsion is designed with redundancy. The de-ballasting of main ballast tanks is powered by high pressure air from large-scale air compressor. The submersible or floating operation can be finished within four hours. The main deck may be submerged into the water by a depth of 13m. It is provided with two loading/unloading methods, i.e. submersible/floating and ro-ro. Its maximum loading capacity is 50000 tons. The stern arranges removable buoyancy casings. It is able to load/unload and transport oversized cargos. It has dual classes: CCS and DNV.

The naming and delivery ceremony for M/V “Xiang Yun Kou”, the first 50000t semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, was held in our Longxue Shipyard. Leaders as Wei Jiafu, the president of COSCO etc. presented on the ceremony and gave high appraisal to successful building of this Vessel. “This is another new masterpiece of the Chinese shipbuilding that is advancing towards “Created in China” from “Made in China”, said Wei.

The successful building of M/V “Xiang Yun Kou”, the first 50000t semi-submersible heavy lift vessel, marked that Huangpu Shipbuilding Longxue Shipyard has comprehensive capability to build high technology and high value added Offshore Engineering product. It also means that Longxue Shipyard has proceeded to become the first-class Offshore Engineering equipment building base in China. Now, another sister ship M/V “Xiang Rui Kou” has been completed for trial run at sea and it will be delivered soon.

 

 

For the deep-water engineering survey vessel, the operating water depth may be up to 3000m. It is one of comprehensive supporting programs for national deep-water key science and technology projects, reaching advanced international standards. This ship is electrical propulsion and is designed with DP2 dynamic positioning system. It is multi-functional composite deep-water operating equipment with highly integration and automation, with complicated and diversified operations and functions, satisfying multi-discipline and multi-means comprehensive engineering surveying operation requirements.

This ship’s overall length is 105m, the length between perpendiculars is 92.9m, width about 23.4m, depth 6m, designed draft 7.4m, displacement of about 7500 tons, maximum speed 14.5 knots, and unrestricted navigation area. It has dual classes: CCS and DNV. It serves for offshore engineering geophysical investigation, digital seismic investigation, 3000m deep-water engineering geological drilling, ROV operation, seabed surficial sampling, cone penetration test (CPT), offshore engineering support service, large-scale offshore engineering lifting etc.

This vessel is arranged with short forecastle, bulbous bow, reinforcement for Class B3 ice zone, a continuous freeboard deck, helicopter platform, bow thruster, telescoping azimuth thruster (2 sets). The azimuth fixed-pitch rudder and propeller is driven by diesel engine electrical propulsion system. It is designed with Class DP-2 dynamic positioning capacity. It is a multi-functional deep-water survey vessel with double bottom and double shell. This ship will be completed and delivered in the near future. The level and capability building offshore engineering ships of Huangpu Shipbuilding has been newly upgraded through building of this ship.

At present, the ocean economy is in the ascendant and the Offshore Engineering market is in the strong competition. Huangpu Shipbuilding has always committed to become the first-class Offshore Engineering equipment base. Thirty years ago, we successfully built the first jack-up drilling platform. Now, we can build the largest and world-leading 50000t semi-submersible heavy lift vessel in Asia as well as 3000m deep-water engineering survey vessel. Through our great diligences and efforts in the past thirty years, we made proper preparation and reserved Offshore Engineering technologies and are also well-experienced in shipbuilding. Nowadays, the Longxue shipyard has successfully been put into service and Phase II project are vigorously pressed ahead. Huangpu Shipbuilding has proceeded to provide for all the customers whether domestic or overseas  with more high-quality Offshore Engineering products.