Chapter 215 Comprehensive Inspection
Replacing original parts with cheap components is a good way to reduce costs. Civil products and industrial products are no exception.
The difference is that civil products are simply maintained and the working environment is relatively balanced. Industrial products are different, such as offshore drilling platforms, renting to work in the North Sea, renting Australia to work in Australia, different environments are accompanied by similar strong winds and waves and alkaline seawater. If the quality fails, it will not only cause losses, but also lead to litigation.
Nasr knows that it is not easy to repair a semi-disabled drilling platform for 3 million US dollars. He has also asked other companies and failed to do so. However, it is still a little difficult for Arabs who advocate Europe and famous brands to adopt all [China] parts.
We are not short of money!
Nasr's favorite thing to do is to use a pile of money to smash European suppliers.
The only problem he has encountered so far is that the budget is insufficient.
When he is short of money, Nasr's usual tricks can't be used. At this time, he asked awkwardly, "It's okay to use replacement parts, but can you increase the scope of procurement?" Compare more countries, for example, use 10% [medium] domestic parts, 90% European parts..."
"It's okay to use some European-produced parts, but if it's 90%, 3 million is definitely not enough." Su Cheng smiled. He smiled.
Nasr would like to say that "adding money" is also their most commonly used means. But... the bureaucrats in the company will not give him such an opportunity. The maintenance fund is at most 3 million. This has been settled for a long time. No matter whether this "Sea Diamond No. 6" is particularly bad or very good, when making money, they will naturally encounter trouble.
For Nasr. This is the time for trouble.
He looked at Chai Wei, then at Su Cheng, and finally said, "If we use a large number of [Zhong] national parts, I'm afraid we can't easily agree to this repair. You can make an evaluation first, and try to focus on European-made parts.
"Of course." Su Cheng did not object to the evaluation. He turned to Gu Haijian and said, "You go to a third-party professional inspection company for a comprehensive evaluation."
In fact, even if he wants to use 100% [China] national parts, it is impossible. For example, it is difficult to say whether things such as diesel engine crankshafts can be replaced. Even on the drilling platform of Dahua Industry, there are still 20% to 30% of foreign imported spare parts. Therefore, Sucheng's so-called use of [China] national parts. That is to say, use sixty or seventy percent...
But this idea cannot be declared. On the one hand, there is room, and on the other hand, it is said to avoid increasing the distrust of the other party.
Saudi National Petroleum Corporation uses the best products produced by the best companies in the world, and pays the most. If you let them know that only half of the parts that Dahua Industry can produce have just passed. It will be difficult to negotiate later.
Gu Haijian quickly invited an inspection company in the United Arab Emirates to bring the equipment to Saudi Arabia for inspection work. There is a lot of workload for comprehensive inspection, and a lot of equipment is needed in the petroleum equipment industry. It has also become a special industry, with professional machines operated by professionals. It is carried out in a professional way. Except for super-large oil companies, general oil companies outsource this business.
is inspected by a third-party company. The conclusion will also be relatively fair.
The whole testing work was carried out for 10 days. The scope of inspection includes drilling system equipment, mud system equipment, well control equipment, underwater equipment, power system equipment, electrical equipment, platform ballast control system, ballast pump chamber, pipeline system platform anchoring system, deck machinery, safety fire protection facilities, communication system, platform structure and equipment maintenance records and zero In terms of accessories storage, etc., the report will be issued in the end.
When the inspection went on to the next day, the [China] International Petroleum Exhibition in Abu Dhabi also ended. Looking at the smiles of Secretary-General Gan and Ding Zhipeng, Su Cheng knew that the goals of the meeting were basically achieved. Dahua Industry received orders of more than 20 million US dollars, which is also a full load.
More than 20 engineers, half of whom continued to return to China to do their research, and the rest went to Saudi Arabia to visit the third-generation semi-submersible drilling platform.
Dahua Industry and Halliburton, the platform made now is the second and a half generations, and the third generation is still on the design drawings. Nowadays, there are ready-made third-generation drilling platforms to be detachable, which is the best thing for researchers.
Soon, the engineer and the people of the testing company buried themselves in the drilling platform.
The semi-submersible drilling platform is a kind of drilling platform where most of the floating bodies are not below the surface of the water. The technical content is very high. The sixth generation of offshore drilling platform made by CNOOC and China Shipping 20 years later is the semi-submersible offshore drilling platform. However, in 1989, [China] has not been exposed to such high-end offshore oil equipment for nearly 20 years.
Not to mention in-depth contact.
On the other hand, the semi-submersible offshore drilling platform is also developed from the bottom offshore drilling platform, which is in line with the technology of Dahua Industry. These engineers of the company can always get it.
Therefore, with the rise of testing, the more engineers know, the more interested they are, and the longer they work.
Although the Saudis only believe in European products and are a little disdainful of American goods, they are still scared to see that Chinese people work more than ten or twenty hours a day.
Nasr was worried about sudden death or serious injury, and repeatedly asked Sucheng to reduce the workers' working hours to less than 8 hours.
Su Cheng ignored him and just asked everyone to rest as much as possible. [Since then] the time was allocated and the doctor's physical examination was arranged.
After all, such an opportunity is rare. For [China] researchers, they also work in the same way in China. The effect is better in Saudi Arabia, and naturally there is no reason to rest.
Only in Saudi Arabia, which does not pay attention to technology, can dismantle and study the third generation of offshore drilling platforms so unscrupulously. If it is a drilling platform for European and American countries, or Japanese, Korean and Singaporean shipowners, such as Dahua Industry, there is no hope of boarding the ship at all.
What's more, the working time of the third-generation offshore drilling platform is generally less than 10 years. Except for a country like Saudi Arabia, who will stop the new brand-new drilling platform for 2 years without any cold-stop measures?
If it hadn't been stopped for such a long time, there would naturally be no need to take it all apart to test and repair, and there would be such a wonderful research opportunity.
At this time, Su Cheng is a little grateful to Chai Wei. Although the opportunities they provide are not obvious from the orders of several drilling platforms, the effect of technology improvement is the same.
The comprehensive test took 20 days, and when the results were announced, there was more than one company of Dahua Industry. Two companies, Halliburton in the United States and Hedru in Norway, also appeared at the same time.
Halliburton was also sent by a group of people during the exhibition. Jason accompanied him as a consultant. Lao Bai's face was a little rosy. When he saw Su Cheng, he smiled and said, "I heard that Dahua Industry was involved, so I thought I could meet Su Dong."
"How did you get at the exhibition?"
"Naturally, it's not as good as Su Dong." The speaker was a foreigner with a red nose. He smiled a little sadly and said, "Power positioning equipment, Su Dong only sold one for 600,000 US dollars. How much is the profit?"
"Aren't you from Halliburton? Don't you know the cost of our joint venture factory? Su Cheng looked at Jensen.
The latter coughed and introduced, "This is our sales director, New Zealander, Bertos."
Su Cheng suddenly became clear. No wonder he looked red. I guess he was of mixed Maori.
Bertos had a bad impression of Sioux City. He muttered a few words that were not in line with the market economy, so he went to the Saudis to act cute.
Su Cheng smiled and asked Jason, "Do you still want to take this maintenance task?"
Jensen hesitated for a moment and whispered, "If Saudi Arabia intends to start mining offshore oil, Halliburton will definitely not miss this opportunity."
"Do you have the ability to comprehensively repair the third-generation platform?" Su Cheng looked at Jason derogatoryly. Halliburton does not do much research on offshore drilling platforms. Their current main force is still in the joint venture with Sioux City.
It can be said that Halliburton's engineers on offshore drilling platforms are now working for Sioux City. Their level is probably not as good as that of Dahua Industry.
Jensen is the person in charge of the [Zhongzhong] District. Naturally, he knew this point and said helplessly, "Bertos insists, I can't help it."
Su Cheng shook his head and said, "You also let him fool around. He fooled around during the exhibition. As a result, how many orders were signed? Now you want to fight with Dahua Industry again? This time, Halliburton is not only costless, but also has poor strength"
I don't know when Bertos turned back. After listening to the last half of the sentence, he said, "Since the Chinese enterprise can do it, our Halliburton can naturally do it. Although I don't know technology, I know simple comparisons. Halliburton is better than [China] Chinese enterprises. [China] Chinese enterprises can take orders, and Harry Burton can take orders.
Su Cheng smiled and said, "Let's talk about it when the comprehensive appraisal report comes out."
"Good, our engineers are all waiting." Bertos is very tough.
Within a few minutes, the third-party appraisal company sent out the specific information. The Arabs from the UAE oil company, holding the folder, read on the spot, "According to our inspection. In the past two years, the platform has little or no maintenance, and lacks any cold stop or storage arrangements, which has had a negative impact on the mechanical part of all kinds of equipment on the platform. The structure and machinery of the platform are seriously damaged by continuous erosion. If the platform wants to continue drilling operations, it must carry out intensive maintenance and repair work. Among them, there are 45 direct repair projects, 16 statutory and classification society inspection projects, 11 single support projects, and 4 auxiliary service projects... A total of 81..."
The engineers around Bertos turned green when they heard the "severely damaged", and when they heard 45 direct repair projects, the whole person was abstracted.
In terms of their cost, every direct repair project means a cost of $100,000. Naturally, it sounds terrible.
The engineer lay on Bertos' shoulder and explained to him. The people of the Norwegian company Hideru whispered for a moment and said, "We have questions about the maintenance cost."
... (To be continued...)