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CNOOC reports first deepwater gas discovery in South China Sea


China's largest producer of offshore oil and gas CNOOC said Monday that CNOOC 981, the country's first deepwater drilling rig, has reported its first deepwater gasfield discovery below the South China Sea.

The newly-discovered Lingshui 17-2 gasfield is located 150 kilometers south of the Hainan Island. Its average operational depth was 1,500 meters below the sea surface, the company said in a statement.

Xie Yuhong, a manager with CNOOC, said the Lingshui 17-2 gas well was tested to produce 56.5 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, equal to about 9,400 barrels of liquid oil per day.

It was the highest daily flow of all CNOOC's gas wells during testing, he said.

The Lingshui 17-2 well is also the first significant deepwater gas and oil discovery by semi-submersible CNOOC 981, which started operations in May of 2012.

It took 6 billion yuan (975 million U.S. dollars) and more than three years for China State Shipbuilding Corp. (CSSC), the contractor, to build the CNOOC 981 rig for CNOOC.

The platform is 114 meters long, 90 meters wide and 137.8 meters high, and weighs 31,000 tonnes.

With a deck the size of a standard football field, the rig is capable of undertaking an offshore operation at a maximum water depth of 3,000 meters and drilling a depth of 12,000 meters, according to CSSC.
 
Its not gonna happen that china will respect the EZZ of other countries so ITCLOS needs to hurry
 
The US is not a UNCLOS ratifying state, that means you don't recognize ANY EEZ at all

hurr durr we don't recognize article XI of UNCLOS everything else we agree on.
do we claim any EEZ that isn't ours? do we have any disputes with our neighbors regarding the EEZ or any territory for that matter? noooo. so I don't see the problem of a U.S citizen saying China has no legal or moral reason to invade and steal resources from another country

I'm just telling you no one besides China and maybe it's retarded child North Korea accepts China's 9 dot/slash w/e claim.

and I'm waiting for one you bring up your Navy as well
 
Build as many oil rigs and deploy them to cover the entire SCS.
Build more Coast Guard ships and deploy the Chinese Coast Guard to protect those oil rigs.
Build as many submarines, destroyers, frigates and corvettes as possible to protect Chinese interests in the SCS.

Time to make the SCS a private Chinese lake :coffee:
 
that's a great move
the SCS will be ablaze with oil rigs and PLAN ships.
not sure there enough gas/oil in the SCS to make such losses worth it.

Funny, you guys always love to ridicule Beidou, and mocking him as the biggest fanboy.

In fact, he is one of the most impartial posters on this forum.

He was a born American, his heart is with the US, but his head is with China.

Because China is destined to prevail, that's why he is supporting China. :coffee:
 
hurr durr we don't recognize article XI of UNCLOS everything else we agree on.
do we claim any EEZ that isn't ours? do we have any disputes with our neighbors regarding the EEZ or any territory for that matter? noooo. so I don't see the problem of a U.S citizen saying China has no legal or moral reason to invade and steal resources from another country

I'm just telling you no one besides China and maybe it's retarded child North Korea accepts China's 9 dot/slash w/e claim.

and I'm waiting for one you bring up your Navy as well

Enjoy the good read. While you do not recognize China's sovereignty over the SCS, China does whatever it wants over there including building artificial islands, airstrips, resorts and radar facilities and your country is busy with salvaging more US persons from being slaughtered by the US regime-supported Al Nusra/ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

China discovers major gas field in South China Sea
Reporter: Han Peng 丨 CCTV.com

China has discovered a major natural gas field in the South China Sea. It is the country’s first independent deep-sea discovery. CCTV reporter Han Peng reports from the rig now operating there.

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China has discovered a major natural gas field in the South China Sea. It is the country’s first independent deep-sea discovery.

It took us an hour by helicopter flight to reach the heart of the South China Sea.

China’s deep water oilrig 981, known as the country’s “aircraft carrier” in its offshore drilling, is anchored there, and has just discovered a major gas field.

Located in the deep sea of over 15-hundred meters deep, this newly discovered field contains energy equivalent of nearly 10,000 barrels of oil per day.

CNOOC, China’s largest offshore oil and gas company, says the discovery signals that China has the technologies for the deep sea drilling.

"It looks easy, but everything changes when it comes to deep water. The water is icy cold and has huge pressure in the seabed, which could easily damage any equipment. After countless trial and error, we finally reached this result," China National Offshore Oil Corporation Deep Water Project Manager Fang Manzong said.

Director Xie Yuhong has been working in the South China Sea since the 1980s.

When he arrived here, a group of foreign experts eyeing the resources of the South China Sea have just left, saying the natural condition was not suitable for offshore drilling.

He and his co-workers lived in tents and started China’s decades-long independent research.

"Life was very hard. When it rained outside, our shabby tents would leak heavily. When it was sunny, it was scorching hot. As we drew the blueprints, sometimes our arms would be so wet that the sweat would damage the paper," CNOOC South China Sea Oil Management Dep't Director Xie Yuhong said.

The hard work of generations of people like Xie has helped shaped the oilrig 981, China’s first domestically made deep sea drilling rig.


Completed in 2012, the rig, as tall as a six-storey building and larger than a football field, can drill in waters of over 3,000 meters deep.

It will help reduce China’s reliance on imported energy.

"Going from the land to the sea, and going from the coastal waters to the deep ocean, is the route many countries have taken. China has around 300 square meters of sea territory, nearly one-third of the size of its land. Developing offshore drilling is an integral part of China’s pursuit of becoming a maritime power," China National Offshore Oil Corporation Chairman Wang Yilin said.

Two years ago, China’s offshore drilling could only reach 300 meters below the sea level, which limited its operation mostly along the coastlines. With the completion of the oilrig 981, China is ready to go further into the deep water to tap the potential of the vast ocean. CNOOC says the country is now technologically capable of drilling in any place in the entire South China Sea. Han Peng, CCTV, from South China Sea.

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Funny, you guys always love to ridicule Beidou, and mocking him as the biggest fanboy.

In fact, he is one of the most impartial posters on this forum.

He was a born American, his heart is with the US, but his head is with China.

Because China is destined to prevail, that's why he is supporting China. :coffee:

I doubt he is American. His IP traces him back to Karachi, Pakistan.
 
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