Chapter 802 LNG Ship's Calculation
"Our Yangcheng Shipyard has achieved a new breakthrough today, breaking the foreign monopoly."
"We know that natural gas is a clean energy. We have become a natural gas importer in the past few years. We need a large number of natural gas ships to ensure the transportation of natural gas."
Since a few years ago, China has not only been a net importer of oil, but also a net importer of natural gas.
The annual import volume of both has shown explosive growth.
Compared with the proven reserves of oil, China's proven reserves of natural gas are close to 1 trillion cubic meters.
In the past year, China's oil industry produced 140 million tons of crude oil and 15.4 billion m3 of natural gas.
But the output of crude oil and natural gas is simply enough.
The ceiling of China's oil production is very obvious. There are 256 oil fields invested in development on land in the country, with a total of 57,300 wells put into production. The water content of old oil fields has increased and the difficulty of stable production has increased.
As for natural gas, the current proven rich natural gas is basically in places with inconvenient transportation conditions. It takes a long time to extract natural gas.
After all, the construction of gas pipelines takes time.
The importance of LNG ships is self-evident!
The news of the construction of China's first LNG ship was soon on the news. The seven o'clock news took three minutes to broadcast this news, introducing the LNG ship, the "crown jewel" of the world's shipbuilding industry, and now this "crown jewel" of the world's shipbuilding industry has been won by China.
In an instant, the whole of China was shocked, and the whole world was looking at it.
Since China's reform and opening up, one industrial pearl after another has been won by China, and there are not many industrial pearls left.
Now even the industrial pearl of LNG has been won by China.
LNG ship, the number of countries that can build LNG ships now can be counted on one hand!
Now China has quietly mastered the development of LNG ship technology, and the domestic production rate is 100%, and no patents from other countries are needed.
Shipyards in other countries need to pay high technical patent fees to the French to build LNG ships, because only the French in the world can make Invar steel.
The result is that the French, relying on Invar steel and other core technologies of LNG ships, have earned far more profits than a shipyard can earn from building LNG ships.
This means that the high profits have been earned by the French, and the shipyard actually earns hard-earned money.
But Yangcheng Shipyard is different. Mastering the core technology means that Yangcheng Shipyard will have higher profits and better cost-effectiveness in building LNG ships. If Yangcheng Shipyard engages in a price war, other shipyards will not be able to compare with Yangcheng Shipyard.
Unless the French do not make money!
But how is that possible!
If the French do not make money, how can the French enjoy a high welfare life?
French things have always been famously expensive. Isn't it that the French earn excess profits from this, so that the French can support high social welfare?
If the French have technology but do not make a lot of money, they are not French!
That night, Liu Tao was discussing the construction of the second LNG ship with the person in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard.
At present, Yangcheng Shipyard does not have extra docks for building LNG ships, but with the continuous improvement of Mawei Shipyard and the construction of shipyards in other places, docks will soon be available.
What Yangcheng Shipyard lacks now is qualified and skilled workers to build LNG ships.
In addition, the improvement of related supporting factories for LNG ships.
"Two years later, the construction of the second and third 125,000 cubic meter LNG ships will be started, and the construction of the first 200,000 cubic meter LNG ship will be started." The person in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard said.
Liu Tao nodded slightly, and he said: "You should train more qualified and skilled workers, and also remember to develop more ship types, such as 150,000 cubic meter LNG ships, 175,000 cubic meter LNG ships, 225,000 cubic meter LNG ships, 250,000 cubic meter LNG ships, 275,000 cubic meter LNG ships and even 300,000 cubic meter LNG ships."
For LNG ships, the larger the natural gas capacity, the better.
Because the speed of LNG ships is similar, it means that the larger the natural gas capacity, the more freight can be earned per trip, and the lower the cost.
LNG ships are known as the "crown jewel" of the world's shipbuilding industry, and the price is quite expensive.
For example, a membrane-type LNG ship, a 125,000 cubic meter LNG ship is about one or two hundred million US dollars, and a 200,000 cubic meter LNG ship is about two or three hundred million US dollars.
In the short term, Liu Tao did not plan to fight a price war on LNG ships, because these LNG ships are all used for his own shipping group.
In a few years, it will be different.
At that time, you will have to grab orders in the international market, and you need to have a higher cost-effectiveness than others to grab orders from others.
This is the defect of latecomers. The popularity is lower than others, and the connection with customers is not as close as others. If you want to get orders, you must have a higher cost-effectiveness than others.
"In terms of the industrial chain of the shipbuilding industry, you must also be dedicated. The industrial chain is built and a complete supporting factory is built. This aspect of work is also very important." Liu Tao exhorted "Qin Weiye".
Qin Weiye is currently the head of Yangcheng Shipyard.
When Panshan Group took over Yangcheng Shipyard, Qin Weiye was just a young man who had just graduated for a year. Over the years, he stood out from the grassroots step by step through his own efforts and was promoted repeatedly. After the previous person in charge died of illness, he was promoted to the person in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard.
Qin Weiye, who is in his thirties, is in his prime and dares to fight.
Of course, being in this position, he has a strong political background and there is no problem.
Qin Weiye's family is an ordinary farmer. He entered a vocational school with friendship grades and was later assigned to Yangcheng Shipyard. Working in Yangcheng Shipyard, he is willing to endure hardships and work hard. Even when he is resting, he is reading and studying. Later, he went to college and is now the person in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard. He is also a postgraduate student in a related major.
People like Qin Weiye are also the ones Liu Tao likes to promote. At present, Qin Weiye is in charge of Yangcheng Shipyard. If he continues to work hard and keep his heart in the future, he will have the hope of becoming the general manager of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation.
"Understood, leader!" Qin Weiye said solemnly.
Although he is the director of Yangcheng Shipyard and deputy general manager of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation, he should be directly under the leadership of Qian Jianguo, general manager and party secretary of China Shipbuilding Group Corporation, but Liu Tao is the general manager of Panshan Group and often comes to Yangcheng Shipyard. When Liu Tao is there, he naturally listens to Liu Tao.
This is not the first time Liu Tao has said this.
Qin Weiye naturally understands the importance of this matter.
Moreover, Liu Tao has never asked for only supporting state-owned enterprises, but also supporting private enterprises.
Let state-owned enterprises and private enterprises compete, and the fittest will survive!
On August 3, 1986, Shenyang Explosion-proof Equipment Factory declared bankruptcy and became the first enterprise to officially declare bankruptcy after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Its bankruptcy gave birth to the "Enterprise Bankruptcy Law" in 1986, which is the first bankruptcy law on state-owned enterprises in the history of China.