On the morning of March 10, 2026, at a shipyard dock in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, a giant ship dressed in "Chinese Red" quietly docked, with the words "Ocean Oil 696" shining brightly in the morning sun on the hull. With a loud whistle, China's first independently designed and built integrated large-scale hydraulic fracturing engineering ship was officially delivered. At this moment, the gap in China's offshore oil and gas fracturing and production technology and equipment has been successfully filled, and the low-permeability oil and gas resources that have been dormant for thousands of years deep in the Bohai Bay are about to usher in the spring of efficient development.

Global leading ship of the same type

The "Ocean Oil 696" has a captain of 99.8 meters, a width of 22 meters, and a deck area equivalent to 3.5 standard basketball courts. Its ship size ranks first among similar ships in the world. The ship is equipped with a complete set of fracturing equipment, which can pump 12 cubic meters of mortar per minute, equivalent to filling a household bathtub in two seconds. The operating efficiency is nearly 40% higher than traditional equipment. With its core advantages of high integration and intelligence, its overall performance has reached the leading level of similar ships worldwide.

Cracking the problem of limited space

In response to the global challenge of limited space for offshore operations, the design team has pioneered a "stacked" three-dimensional layout, integrating fracturing equipment precisely on four decks to achieve "small space, large capacity" within a limited vessel. For the first time in the world, ships have adopted a fully electric propulsion system, significantly increasing power output and effectively reducing carbon emissions. With a range of over 10000 nautical miles, it can meet the continuous operation needs under different sea conditions. Keywords: New News Network

Open the way for low-permeability oil fields

The ship is equipped with the first intelligent decision-making command center for hydraulic fracturing at sea in China, which can achieve real-time collection, online analysis, and intelligent decision-making support for the entire chain of hydraulic fracturing data, upgrading hydraulic fracturing construction decision-making from relying on experience to scientific judgment based on data and artificial intelligence. After delivery, "Offshore Oil 696" will be deployed to operate in the Bohai Sea and other sea areas of China, promoting efficient and large-scale development of low-permeability oil and gas fields at sea, and breaking through the bottleneck of difficult to extract oil and gas resources at sea.Editor/Gao Xue