China’s self-designed and built Haiyang Shiyou 122, Asia’s first cylindrical FPSO, nears completion

The main structure of China’s self-developed floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) facility, Haiyang Shiyou 122, has been completed in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong Province, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) said on Wednesday. After 20 months of construction, Haiyang Shiyou 122, also Asia’s first cylindrical FPSO facility, has entered the integrated debugging phase. Its main structure consists of two parts, namely the hull and the upper functional module. With a maximum diameter of about 90 meters, the facility has a main deck area equivalent to 13 standard basketball courts. It is designed with a maximum displacement of 100,000 tonnes and a storage capacity of 60,000 tonnes of oil. Haiyang Shiyou 122, with a designed service life of 30 years, integrates functions of crude oil production, storage, and external transmission. It is able to provide continuous operation at sea for 15 years without docking. The facility is scheduled to be completed in the first half of 2024, after which it will be commissioned in the Liuhua oilfields in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, providing a new option for China’s efficient development of deepwater oil and gas fields. __________________ ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality contents. Nobody knows SHANGHAI better than us. Please subscribe to us ☻☻☻ __________________ For more stories, please click ■ What’s up today in Shanghai, the most updated news of the city ■ Amazing Shanghai, exploring the unknown corners of the city, learning the people, food and stories behind them ■ What Chinese people’s lives are like during the post COVID-19 period ■ Views of foreign scholars on China and its affairs ■ Foreign faces in Shanghai, people living in this city sharing their true feelings ■ Mini-docs showing why China is the country it is today __________________ ☎Leave us messages if you have any suggestions or questions! Thank you!