Original title: Big Mac at Sea! Asia's first cylindrical floating production, storage and unloading device is made in China
"The maritime artifact shows its edge, and oil and gas development creates glory." The artifact I am talking about today is the first cylindrical floating production, storage and unloading device (FPSO) made in China - "Sea Anemone One".
"Fisher Boat Singing Evening" is famous in folk music. As soon as the music started, a picture seemed to appear in front of me: small fishing boats rowed back slowly, and the fishermen hummed little songs while harvesting a full boat of fish and shrimps. The whole picture exudes a sense of tranquility and harvest.
Set again to the sea. Above the blue waves, "Anemone One" is standing quietly, like a huge sunflower blooming on the sea. It seems leisurely and quiet and beautiful, but in fact it hides the world. It is busy "fishing" the extremely precious offshore oil and gas resources. FPSO is a offshore oil and gas production facility integrating production, processing, storage, external transmission and power supply, and is called the "offshore oil factory".
"Anemone One" consists of nearly 600,000 parts. The main deck area is equivalent to the size of 13 standard basketball courts. The height is close to 30 floors, with a total weight of about 37,000 tons. This weight is equivalent to 30,000 cars stacked together, and it is simply a steel "big flower" on the sea. Its maximum displacement is 100,000 tons, its maximum oil storage is 60,000 tons, and it can operate continuously at sea for 15 years without returning to the dock.
