This high-tech device looks like a tanker from the outside, has a length of three football fields, and can store 2 million barrels of crude oil inside, costing millions of dollars. Its main feature is that it can directly import crude oil from the sea to the tanker without having to transport the crude oil to the oil terminal on the shore. The use of this integrated equipment to drill crude oil from the deep-sea oil field is directly delivered to the tanker, thus greatly reducing production and transportation costs. In addition, because the technical equipment that integrates production, storage and loading is far from the land, the chance of being destroyed is greatly reduced.
Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company used this technology to extract large quantities of crude oil from the 6,000-meter-deep “Bentun†oil field. At present, the oilfield produces 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day. "This integrated facility gives the company great flexibility," said Shell Powers manager Stabos, who is in charge of the "Bentham" oilfield project.
When ExxonMobil now produces crude oil from the sea, it is often the first to build such a small integrated facility and then build a larger one. Fulin, head of the company's deepwater development department, said: "We call this integrated device a super boat (see picture), which is like a small city."
Although the handling of millions of barrels of crude oil from the sea poses oil spills and Other pollution problems, this has not prevented the mass production of this new type of equipment. In the past five years, the number of oil production equipments that integrate “production, storage, and load†has doubled to 113, and by 2011, there will be 83 waters. In addition to the oil industry, shipyards that produce and build such high-tech equipment have thus gained more profits. Currently, most shipyards producing such equipment are in Korea and Japan.
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