China's first deep-sea floating wind power platform was recently tugged from Qingdao towards the South China Sea. It will be installed in an offshore oil field located 136 kilometers away from Wenchang, which is situated in China's southern island province of Hainan. This platform marks an important step in the construction of the world's first offshore wind power project with a water depth of over 100 meters and an offshore distance of over 100 kilometers. All of the rolled steels for the tubular piles were supplied by the Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. 

Strong winds and big ocean waves at the offshore oil field posed extremely high requirements for the strength, resilience, weldability, corrosion resistance and fatigue resistance of the rolled steels. The Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group worked hard to perfect related techniques and technologies, ensuring all the rolled steel products were qualified in all respects.  

In recent years, the Xiangtan Iron and Steel Group has followed the national new energy industry development strategy while adapting itself to the demands of domestic and overseas wind power projects. It has vigorously developed new techniques and technologies for rolled steel production, and has the most complete categories of steel products in various sizes that are suitable for wind power projects.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: hunantoday