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Roundup: China's presence at Offshore Technology Conference 2015 impressive

Xinhua, May 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

More than 200 China-related companies are attending as exhibitors the Offshore Technology Conference 2015 held here on May 4-7, double the number of China-based or international companies with offices or manufacturing plants in China at last year's conference.

Among them, China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) and China Petrochemical Corporation Group (Sinopec Group) hold prominent booths to exhibit their technologies and products through static displays and touch-screen interactive maps.

A large tool and hydraulic system in the CNPC's multisectional conference booth is used to gather data about undersea formations, said Wei Ren, the company's senior electrical engineer.

Also showcased in the booth is a lighted, scale-model drill tower and a drill designed to provide mobility.

"This one is specially designed to be fast moving in the desert," said Richard Yang, sales director. "We designed the units so that each unit can be separated and moved very quickly for Middle East customers."

A total of more than 100,000 industrial leaders and buyers from 130 countries are attending the conference in the fourth largest U.S. city to give and get in-depth information on technologies, emerging trends and diverse methodologies that can meet the world's growing energy needs.

Most of the representatives of oil and gas giants headquartered in the United States or Europe said they have major business interests with China.

Among the 2,771 exhibits at the conference, participants can choose from a daily menu of specialized conferences, such as an industry breakfast on doing business with China.

Western companies have also brought their high-tech products to the conference.

Melanie Kenia, media relations specialist with Baker Hughes, a Texas-based oil and gas firm, said the company has been showcasing 12 technology solutions at the conference.

One of them is the Hammerhead system, the industry's first wellhead-to-reservoir ultra-deepwater completion and production system, and the industry's first bi-directional digital reaming tool to provide wellbore stability while drilling through challenging formations.

"The Hammerhead ultra-deepwater integrated system is the largest launch we have and it's the first system of its type," Kenia said. "It's a pretty big deal."

Kenia also showed Baker Hughes' Autotrack System, which assisted the company in hitting a milestone of drilling to a depth of more than a hundred million feet recently.

The booth for the KBR, another global giant in the oil and gas industry, contains an interactive computer system with a map showing its offices and projects around the world. The map shows the KBR's China office with 10 land-based oil fields and offshore projects.

The most physically active booth at the conference belongs to 3M, an oil production safety company based in St. Paul, Minnesota, which built a vertical ladder tower to showcase equipment that helps rescue oil workers in case of a fire or explosion. 3M has been doing business with China since early 1990s. Endi