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China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) announced on Wednesday that the Enping 15-1 platform, Asia’s largest offshore oil production platform, was put into operation in the Pearl River Mouth Basin in south China’s Guangdong Province.
The platform, about 160 meters tall and weighing over 30,000 tonnes, is the largest offshore oil platform with the most equipment and the most complete functions in Asia, said its operator CNOOC.
Deng Changhong, deputy general manager of CNOOC Shenzhen branch, said that workers could guarantee the smooth and safe operation of the oil field by remote control at the platform in the event of typhoon weather.
China’s first offshore CCUS project
The Enping 15-1 platform is part of the Enping 15-1 oil field group, which deployed the country’s first offshore carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project.
CCUS is the process of capturing carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or the atmosphere and storing them for future usage.
Zhang Lin, production manager of the CNOOC Enping Oil field, said that the facility would capture carbon dioxide produced from the oil field and then stores it at the submarine formation.
It would help achieve zero emission of carbon dioxide and fill the gap of offshore carbon dioxide storage technology in China, Zhang said.
The project is estimated to be able to store 1.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to planting nearly 14 million trees, or stopping the use of nearly one million cars, Zhang added.
