Baosteel extends offshore platform heavy plate series

Baosteel has developed heavy plate with maximum thickness of 178 millimeters for self-elevating marine platform spud leg. This product provides the high level, large thickness, and high performance and requirements among the products for offshore platform heavy plate, promoting China’s offshore platform plate localization.
Baosteel started developing offshore platform plate starting with the five-millimeter heavy plate production line, and gradually aimed at developing high-end variety.
Baosteel heavy plate products entered the high-grade steel market for offshore platform in 2009 with the supply of two self-elevating offshore platform for CNOOC, filling the domestic gap in the Chinese market, and breaking the foreign monopoly. Since then, Baosteel continues to accelerate product development, further improving product quality, successfully supplying products for many well-known domestic and foreign users. Currently, Baosteel has four series heavy products for offshore platform in accordance with ASTM (American), EN (European), each classification societies and API (American Petroleum Institute) specification or standard.
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