China-Maritime Equipment/Fuel Supply

Shotlist

China – 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of drilling platform at sea
2. Various of crude oil tankers

Dalian City, Liaoning Province, northeast China – Aug 7, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of tanker under construction
4. Pipeline system on tanker
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Ni Jianwei, project manager, floating production storage and offloading vessel, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (starting with shot 3-4/partially overlaid with shot 6):
“The pipeline system on the boat connects to the oil transportation system on the seabed. The crude oil will be sent to the processing module on the boat through these pipes, and then enters the storage tank after the processing. The daily processing capacity of our ship is 220,000 barrels.”
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6. Tanker under construction
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7. Tanker under construction
8. Various of 300,000-tone ultra large crude carrier
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Li Jiming, project manager for 300,000-ton oil tankers, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (partially overlaid with shot 10):
“All the pipelines are in the middle part of the vessel. The area below the deck is for the oil storage. The carrying capacity of this ship is 300,000 tons, which is equivalent to 2 million barrels of crude oil.”
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10. Pipelines on crude carrier
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11. Crude carrier

Storyline

Top-notch maritime equipment is enhancing China’s supply capacity of offshore oil and gas.

China’s gross ocean product grew 1.2 percent year-on-year to 4.2 trillion yuan (about 623.1 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of 2022, with the output of offshore crude oil and natural gas increasing by 7.4 percent and 12.4 percent from a year ago, respectively, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Analysts said modern oil tankers and other maritime equipment of the whole industry chain have effectively enhanced the sustainable supply capacity of offshore oil and gas.

The country has delivered the world’s first LNG dual-fuel crude oil tanker in this March. The ship using LNG as the main fuel was assigned to Yangpu Port in south China’s island province of Hainan.

A new semi-submersible drilling platform and a new jack-up drilling rig have also been delivered by China’s COSCO Shipping and Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding earlier this year, to beef up the production capacity of offshore crude.

In factories of the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company based in east China’s Liaoning Province, workers are busy constructing a new floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel that can process 220,000 barrels of crude oil every day.

“The pipeline system on the boat connects to the oil transportation system on the seabed. The crude oil will be sent to the processing module on the boat through these pipes, and then enters the storage tank after the processing. The daily processing capacity of our ship is 220,000 barrels,” said Ni Jianwei, a project manager for the company’s FPSO vessel.

The company is also producing a 300,000-ton ultra large crude carrier with a height of 30 meters from the bottom of the hull to the deck.

“All the pipelines are in the middle part of the vessel. The area below the deck is for the oil storage. The carrying capacity of this ship is 300,000 tons, which is equivalent to 2 million barrels of crude oil,” said Li Jiming, project manager for 300,000-ton oil tankers of the company.