Breakthroughs in key technologies of China's liquefied natural gas equipment can reduce equipment procurement costs by 40%
2023 10/25
On September 1, CNOOC announced that the largest liquefied natural gas unloading arm independently developed and manufactured by China was officially put into use in Jiangsu.
The unloading arm is an important channel connecting the transport ship and the receiving station pipeline to transport liquefied natural gas, which is called the "throat" of the receiving station. In the operation, Crusher Machine the unloading arm not only has to withstand the ultra-low temperature test of liquefied natural gas at minus 162 ° C, automatically adapt to the tidal drop of about 5 meters and the wind load of up to 65 meters/second, but also has complex functions such as rapid docking, emergency detachment, automatic shutdown, and only a few countries in the world have mastered the key technology of design and manufacturing. The discharge arm used this time is the first in China to have integrated loading and unloading function, which can not only receive and unload liquefied natural gas, but also realize reverse transport to the carrier, with higher flexibility.
The domestic unloading arm has achieved a technological breakthrough, which can reduce the equipment procurement cost by 40% and shorten the supply cycle by 8 months.
Cnooc Yancheng "Green Energy Port" is a key planning project for the construction and interconnection of the national natural gas production, supply, storage and marketing system. It can receive and unload various types of liquefied natural gas carriers from all over the world, and the annual receiving capacity of 10 storage tanks in the first phase of the project can reach 6 million tons.