Oil is the lifeblood of economic development, with 80 million barrels of oil consumed worldwide every day. 60% of new discoveries in the past decade have been offshore, and 40% of the world's future oil and gas reserves are expected to be in deep water. With the development of offshore oil and gas in deep and far waters, the cost and risk of laying long distance oil and gas return pipelines are getting higher and higher... The most effective way to solve this problem is to build offshore oil and gas processing plants -- FPSO!

FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading) is an offshore Floating Production, Storage and Offloading device that integrates Production, oil Storage and unloading. China's HYSY117, for example, can process 190,000 barrels of crude oil per day, equivalent to a 10 square kilometer onshore oil and gas processing plant. The FPSO is made up of two main components: the upper block, which processes the oil, and the hull. The ship's hull is responsible for storing qualified crude oil. Compared with the "production platform/subsea production system + subsea pipeline" development scheme, the "FPSO+ production platform/subsea production system + shuttle tanker" development scheme has many advantages:

1. Strong oil, gas and water production and treatment capacity and crude oil storage capacity;

2. Good mobility and mobility, which can realize fast movement;

3. Suitable for shallow sea and deep sea, strong wind and wave resistance;

4. Flexible application, not only can cooperate with the offshore platform, but also can be combined with the underwater production system, forming a complete sea type development system.

FPSO requires a large number of steel pipes, pipe fittings, flanges and other products. And these products must meet a series of requirements such as acid resistance, high corrosion resistance and so on to meet the requirements to maintain performance under severe working conditions. WH-Steel is a Chinese pipe fitting manufacturer. We have 20 years of industry experience in producing pipe fitting products that meet the requirements of FPSO.