Introduction

Shanhaiguan Shipyard is a large state-owned enterprise that belongs to the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC). The shipyard has three dry docks, sized 170x28x9.1 m for Handymax, 240x39x11.4 m for Panamax, 340x64x12.8 m for VLCC, and ten wharfs with a total length of 2,018 m, four harbor tugs, and workshops for steel processing, piping, painting, numerical-controlled cutting machine, steel pre-treatment line, plate straighting and 200 tons gantry crane etc. There are 900 highly skilled, experienced engineers and architects. The shipyard has been qualified and certified to IS09001—2000 standards, and with its advanced facilities and techniques, Shanhaiguan Shipyard can perform repairing, conversion of VLCC, Jack-up, bulk carrier, general cargo carrier, Ro/Ro vessel, container ship, refrigerated carrier, ore carrier, crane ship, pick up boat, supply vessel, harbor vessel and chemical carrier, and the shipyard is also engaged in cargo handling and storage.

In 1995, the shipyard was awarded the foreign trade authority of direct import and export. In 2001, the shipyard was awarded the right to conduct independent harbor business.  The shipyard performs repairing, conversion and building of ships and offshore facilities, manufacturing of port handling equipment, fabrication of steel structure, and spare part supply with an annual ship repairing of more than 100 vessels, having built up close relationships with the ship owners from more than 30 areas and countries such as Korea, Greece, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, America and Hong Kong and won a good reputation in the world shipping industry.  Shanhaiguan Shipyard will make further efforts to provide the ship owners both in domestic and abroad with its high quality and good services, based upon its full advantages and solid strength and promoting its good reputation, and insisting on the quality policy of “To provide products for satisfied clients, based on continuous improvement of technology and management”, supplying better products and services for clients both domestically and abroad.

P—33 and P—35 FPSO Conversions

P33 and P35 are FPSO conversions contracted by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (HHI) for Petrobras.  The project converted the VLCC Henrique Dias, 278,000 dwt and the VLOO Jose Bonifacio, 270,000 dwt into FPSO's (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading System) for oil and gas production operations offshore Brazil.  Most of the conversions were executed at/by the Shanhaiguan Shipyard in cooperation with HHI, in compliance with the rules and regulations of ABS and standards of API, including 19,700 tons of steel structure, 4,600 tons of piping,700,000 meters of cable laying, 700,000 m2 of tank and hull blasting and coating, and 2,300 sets of mechanical equipment installation and the installation of accommodations.

After completion, the FPSOs were towed to the Marlim field, offshore Brazil, and installed in a water depth of 790m.  The production capacity will consist of oil production and treatment of 500,000 bopd and gas compression of 2,000,000 m3/day and gas treatment and export of 1,500,000 m3/day.

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