The heaviest international offshore oil and gas platform built by China is notable for its embedded advanced technology.
The platform for Saudi Arabia's Marjan oilfield was officially delivered after 34 months of construction in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province on Monday, marking a breakthrough in the country's large-scale offshore oil and gas equipment construction technology.
Weighing the equivalent of around 17,000 vehicles and covering an area of 15 basketball courts, the platform is capable of processing 24 million tons of crude oil annually, enough to power 500 million cars. Despite its immense size, the platform was constructed with cutting-edge technologies.
"The 36-inch crude oil pipeline here utilized domestically-produced inner coating technology. It can not only withstand high levels of hydrogen sulfide, but enable long-term safe service for up to 25 years," said Lu Cuncai, executive deputy manager of Marjan project of China Offshore Oil Engineering Company.
The platform's essential process pipeline spans 33,000 meters, covering the entire structure. The system is supported by 35 pigging ball receivers to ensure the long-term and safe operation of this platform.
According to Lu, the platform was constructed under stringent quality control protocols, with over 2,000 files dedicated to this purpose. Every member of the project team, from quality control staff to welders, was required to pass rigorous examinations.
Additionally, the platform contains over 100,000 components and parts, posing significant challenges for the management of the entire project.
"To manage this massive component weighing around 20,000 tons with thousands of pieces of material and equipment, the project team developed a visual management platform that enables whole-process management and control through digital simulation and twin technologies," said Lu.
The application of this visual intelligent management platform allows for real-time tracking of building materials and construction process, significantly improving the project management efficiency.
China adopts advanced technology to complete heaviest international offshore platform
The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 41,118, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement released on Thursday.
During the past 24 hours, the Israeli military killed 34 people and wounded 96 others, bringing the total death toll to 41,118 and injuries to more than 95,125 since the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out last October, it added.
Israeli military operations are continuing across Gaza and the West Bank.
At least 19 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.
An Israeli warplane struck a residential house in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing three people, said Palestinian medical sources.
Seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli aircraft in two attacks on the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, according to local sources and eyewitnesses.
The Civil Defense Authority in Gaza reported in a press statement that its crews recovered the body of a Palestinian woman and a seriously injured person following an Israeli attack near Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City.
In Rafah, southern Gaza, Civil Defense crews recovered the bodies of four people, three of whom were from the same family, after they were targeted by a missile in the Al-Zahour neighborhood in the center of the city. The bodies were transferred to the hospital, according to a separate statement released by the Civil Defense Authority.
Medical sources reported that the bodies of four people were transferred to the European Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, following the bombing of a residential house in the city.
On the same day, the Israeli army also conducted military operations in Tulkarm, and Tubas in the northern West Bank, destroying infrastructure and Palestinian homes.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it has "dismantled" Hamas' Rafah Brigade in the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.
The military stated that its troops killed more than 2,000 "militants" in Rafah, including Mahmoud Hamdan, commander of Hamas' Tel al-Sultan Battalion in the city.
It added that its operations destroyed approximately 13 kilometers of tunnels buried beneath Rafah and about 80 percent of the underground tunnel routes along the Philadelphi Corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 41,118: health authorities
