Asia’s largest offshore jacket Haiji-1 was last week installed in the South China Sea by Chinese offshore engineering and construction company COEEC.
Haiji-1, the “largest deep-water jacket in Asia” is “designed to withstand extreme sea conditions, even the once-in-a-century ones,” said COOEC, after it was installed on 11 April.
“With total height of 302 meters and 30,000 tons weight exceeding the lifting capacity of the world’s largest derrick barge, the offshore installation was carried out by launching,” said COOEC.
According to South China Morning Post, the jacket is a part of a platform that will be used to produce oil from the Lufeng 15-1 oil field, scheduled for start-up in September. China’s Lufeng oilfield in Guangdong’s Pearl River Mouth Basin, has a peak annual output capacity of 1.68 million tonnes of crude oil.
The platform will operate in a waters about 248 meters deep.
Watch a video of the installation:
https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3174443/china-installs-enormous-deepwater-base-structure-oil-field-south-china-sea
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