The first offshore multi-layer heavy oil thermal recovery project in China -- the Jinzhou 23-2 oilfield development project -- started construction in Qingdao, North China's Shandong Province, on August 4, indicating that a relatively complete technical system for offshore heavy oil thermal recovery has been established in China.
The Jinzhou 23-2 Oilfield is located in the Liaodong Bay of the Bohai Sea and features a "layered cake" structure of multiple layers of sand-rich heavy oil reservoirs. The two thermal recovery platforms under construction in Qingdao are about 31 meters high, with a projected area of about 3,600 square meters and a weight of about 16,000 tons. They represent the largest offshore heavy oil thermal recovery platforms constructed in China to date.
The construction of the thermal recovery platforms for the project is planned to be completed before October 2024 with full-scale production expected by the end of the same year. The platforms by then will have been transported to serve the Jinzhou 23-2 oil field in the Bohai Sea.
Workers are conducting steel cutting operations. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Workers are conducting steel cutting operations. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Workers are conducting steel cutting operations at the construction site of COOEC in Qingdao. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
(Executive editor: Xie Yunxiao)
