News / Baosteel now able to supply the full range of offshore platform heavy plate series
Date: 2013-09-21
Baosteel now able to supply the full range of offshore platform heavy plate series
Recently, Baosteel self-developed heavy plate with maximum thickness of 178mm for self-elevating marine platform spud leg pass the type approval by ABS classification society on the base of approval by ABS, DNV, GL, CCS four classification societies’ product certification in the past year. This product is the highest level, the largest thickness, the highest performance and requirements product among the products for offshore platform heavy plate, which means Baosteel has the supply capacity for full range of offshore platform heavy plate, with great importance for promoting China's offshore platform plate localization.
Offshore platform heavy plate is mainly used for self-elevating, semi-submersible, FPSO and other offshore marine manufacturing, which has high access threshold and higher technical difficulty, reflecting comprehensive heavy plate production capacity and technical standards of steel plant. From the construction of 5m heavy plate production line, Baosteel started developing offshore platform plate, and gradually aimed at developing high-end variety, with clear market positioning with high-grade products as the leading role. In 2009, via supplying two self-elevating offshore platform for CNOOC, Baosteel heavy plate products successfully entered into the high-grade steel market for offshore platform, filling the domestic gap, and breaking the foreign monopoly. Since then, Baosteel continues to accelerate products development, further improving product quality, successfully supplying products for many well-known domestic and foreign users.
Currently, dividing in accordance with ASTM (American), EN (European), each classification societies and API (American Petroleum Institute) specification or standard, Baosteel has four series heavy products for offshore platform. In recent years, these products have been supplied for key projects construction by domestic well-known users such as CNOOC, CNPC, Waigaoqiao, ZPMC, China Merchants Heavy Industries, receiving recognition from many landmark marine projects. In addition, the products are also supplied to important projects from oversea customers including Petrobras, Singapore Sembcorp and others. Among them, the high grade EQ series extra-thick steel plate as the representative of competitive products have the features of high strength, high tenacity, good weldability, widely used in the key structural parts of the offshore platform, popular with users. And the self-elevating marine platform spud leg which just pass the type approval is not only with outstanding performance, but also breaks the monopoly by foreign steel mills on high price and limited purchasing, which has extraordinary significance for promoting China's offshore platform construction and energy development.
After years of research and development as well as production accumulation, Baosteel offshore platform plate products have strong production technology advantages and consistent quality assurance system, and technical strength providing whole process participation and assistant of user selection from the beginning of user design, as well as mature support system from manufacturing to service. Especially in the customer using and product service, Baosteel can provide perfect user technology, product performance guidance technology and professional product service life cycle tracking service system.
At present, total annual demand of offshore platform steel in China is 2 million -3 million tons. With the increasing of China’s marine engineering construction investment during the "Twelfth Five Year Plan" period, the future offshore platform steel demand amount will significantly increase, which means Baosteel offshore platform plate products have broad market prospects. On this basis, Baosteel will also accelerate the development of high-grade, multi-field marine steel products with high strength, large thickness, high tenacity, corrosion resistance, easy welding and other characteristics and actively promote the localization of the products such as marine wind power steel, and steel for offshore drilling platform.
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