COMPANY PROFILE
2014
SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
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Samsung Heavy Industries: Aiming to be the best Editorial: Rosie DeWinter
The undisputed leader in high-value drill ships and FPSO vessels, Samsung Heavy Industries has not only delivered the world’s largest semi-submerged offshore drilling platform but cements its status by providing technological excellence with new and innovative products to help improve efficiency and production to the shipbuilding industry. With an increasingly healthy order book, receiving 1,054 orders for ships unit to date, Samsung Heavy Industries is well on its way to achieving its aim: To write a new chapter for the history of the shipbuilding and offshore industry…
As one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the ‘Big
within the offshore and shipbuilding industry includes
Three’ shipbuilders in South Korea, Samsung Heavy Industries has an unsurpassable reputation with the world’s number one share in the drill ship, LNG carrier and FPSO markets. The company’s capabilities
the delivery of the world’s largest semi-submerged offshore drilling platform and providing technological excellence through ship network systems including FUGAS (fuel gas supply and storage system) and PURIMAR
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(ballast water management system).
THE GOEJE SHIPYARD Samsung Heavy Industries’ largest shipyard in South Korea, the Goeje Shipyard, is located on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula and is estimated to be
SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES the size of 305 football pitches. With 25,000 workers on site, it is the busiest shipyard in the world and has a global reputation for having the world’s highest dock turnover rate with its largest dock, No.3, producing 30 vessels a year for the industry. The undisputed leader in highvalue drill ships and vessels, the process for shipbuilding is not only one of immense scale but dedication and hard work too. When Samsung Heavy Industries receives an order and the blueprint has been designed, the main raw material, steel, is brought in before both workers and automation robots begin to cut, press and weld the three or four centimetre steel sheets into different ship parts. Samsung Heavy Industries
continues to maintain its worldleading production processing automation rate of 68% by using its own internally developed intelligent robots which are used for a multitude of services including welding, blasting and pipe inspection and cleaning. The steel sheets are then assembled into bigger blocks and fitted out with the necessary internal equipment before being moved by a crane into the dock. As the dock is filled with water, the vessel is launched where the final checks are carried out, including connecting electrical wires, installing the last pipes and finishing the cabin interior. When you consider this process and that it takes an estimated 18 months to three years to complete just one build,
producing 30 vessels from one dock alone suddenly seems a rather impressive feat.
COVERING THE POLAR REGIONS Earlier this year, Samsung Heavy Industries received an order for three arctic shuttle tankers with an estimated worth of US$440 million. The tankers will be classified as Arc-7 and will be the highest standard of ice-breaking cargo ship built in Korea today. They will be built to withstand and operate in extreme temperatures reaching as low as -45 o C and break ice up to 1.4m thick. Measuring 249m in length and 34m wide, this new innovative shuttle tanker will combine two types of ship. Previously a
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separate ice-breaker would be needed to break the ice with its bow but with this amalgamation of proficiencies, it will help to drastically increase efficiency and improve time-frames. Building the world’s first twoway ice breaking oil tanker, the ‘Vasily Dinkov’, in 2007, Samsung Heavy Industries received a second order in October from a European ship owner for three 42,000DWT tankers which will transfer crude oil produced in the Novy Portoil field near Yamal peninsula of Russia to the icefree harbour in Murmansk.
PROVIDING TRANSPORT FOR SHALE GAS A second order, also received in October, was from an Asian ship owner for three LNG carriers to carry US shale gas bound
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for Asia, at a cost of US$620 million. The LNG carriers will feature dual-fuel engines, offering more efficient travel, a better performance and lower gas emissions compared to previous operating LNG carriers. These carriers are due for delivery in 2018 to transfer US shale gas and with an estimated 90 vessels needed for the project, 60 still need to be ordered. This new order for Samsung Heavy Industries brings the company’s order total to an exponential US$6.5 billion. LNG carrier development
exports are expanding to the US, Australia, and East Africa. As we have the number one market share in the LNG carrier market, we will benefit from these orders.” Since the launch of its shipbuilding business and as of December 2013, Samsung Heavy Industries has received orders for 1,054 units of ships from the world’s leading shippers, proving its technological excellence by delivering 942 units of ships. In 2006 and 2007, the company delivered two units of the world’s largest offshore
is now taking place in many countries, including Australia, Mozambique and Tanzania. In a statement, Samsung Heavy Industries said: “It is expected that more than 30 LNG carriers will be ordered annually, as LNG
platforms to Sakhalm Energy Investment Company and in 2008 and 2009, in Russia, it delivered a further two units for the world’s largest semi-submersible drilling facilities, in West Phoenix and Eminence, to Sea Drill, a
SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Norwegian shipper. The company’s involvement with such large scale and global projects only assists in cementing its reputation as a global leader in the offshore industry. Within the FPSO market too, Samsung Heavy Industries has gained a highly reputable position when, in 2008, it signed a contract with Shell to develop an LNG FPSO. A world first, it is a new-concept vessel that enables the production, liquefaction and storage of LNG. Measuring 488m long, 74m wide and 100m high, it weighs 200,000 tons in terms of dead load. After completing production at one spot, the LNG FPSO can then be moved to other gas fields. In 2012, Samsung Heavy Industries received an EPC contract from Inpex for
“Samsung Heavy Industries is striving to continuously develop advanced manufacturing technologies that will meet the increasingly changing ship technologies, especially with the complex advancements in ship model shapes”
the world’s largest Central Processing Facility at the Ichthys LNG Project, located in the Browse Basin Field off the coast of Australia.
INTRODUCING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY The company’s research department is vital to its reputation and since its activities began in 1984, it has divided into two groups to help strengthen its capabilities with a performance technology group and a production technology group, ensuring the highest levels of both quality and efficiency are practised. This institute continues to play a leading role in developing key technologies for higher value-added ships and offshore facilities for
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global customers. Two of these innovative technological products include the Towing Tank and Cavitation Tunnel. One of the world’s largest commercial towing tanks, helping in the development of new ships and performance improvements can be found at the Samsung Ship Model Basin (SSMB). The tank, measuring 400m in length, 7m deep and 14m wide, contains a wave maker with 40 independent plungers, ready to stimulate the conditions an ocean vessel frequently operates in. Additionally it has a sub-carriage connected by the main carriages for large amplitude circular motion testing. To date, there has been a variety of model testing carried out in the towing tank including; propeller open water, manoeuvring, flow visualization,
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“It is expected that more than 30 LNG carriers will be ordered annually, as LNG exports are expanding to the US, Australia, and East Africa. As we have the number one market share in the LNG carrier market, we will benefit from these orders”
self-propulsion and local flow measurement. The SSMB tank has also carried out model tests of more than 300 vessels with appendages and conventional and special propulsion systems to further improve performance. In 1996, Samsung Heavy Industries developed a large low-noise cavitation tunnel using its own technology which was placed in the SSMB as one of the world’s largest commercial cavitation tunnel. The tunnel has two varying test sections, the first section, No. 1, is 6m in length and 1.2m wide which enables high-speed model tests through generating the tunnel flow speed up to 28 meters per second. The second section, No. 2, measures 12m in length, 3m wide and 1.4m in depth that can accommodate the maximum of
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10m length entire model ship and an impeller facilitates the circulation of 650 tons of water inside the tunnel at a speed of 12 meters per second. Now with world class status, the cavitation tunnel allows both a cost effective and accurate prediction of cavitation performance including the cavitation extent, inception speed, rudder cavitation and propeller induced hull pressure fluctuation with a full size model ship which simulates the most reliable wake field. The use of these valuable tools
water tank testing technology and performs model tests on more than 400 propellers. This includes the recent research field of the underwater noise of surface combat vessels or submarines. To guarantee these model tests give an accurate representation, the precision of both the ship and propeller model manufacturing must be accurate. Samsung Heavy Industries achieve this with the development of a model ship measuring 10m in length and a model propeller which measures up to 0.3m is diameter. These can be manufactured utilising
technologies that will meet the increasingly changing ship technologies, especially with the complex advancements in ship model shapes. It is this attention to detail and innovative thinking which places the company at the forefront of the shipbuilding industry. Looking to the future and Samsung Heavy Industries are still aiming to be the best by creating a new chapter in the history of global shipbuilding and offshore structure building industries with new and exciting innovative technological advancements and providing the
for flow field measurement and visualization help to both improve and allow sophisticated research regarding flow field around vehicles with more complex arrangements. Samsung’s Cavitation Tunnel continues to acquire world-class
a high-precision 10-axis CNC machine that consists of two 5-axis manufacturing heads and a 5-axis CNC machine working in full automation. Samsung Heavy Industries is striving to continuously develop advanced manufacturing
industry with world firsts such as the floating dock and delivering the largest LNG FPSO. Staying ahead in such a competitive industry proves the longevity of this company and an unmatched reputation that will be sure to last for many years to come PAGE 7
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