World Largest ‘Deepwater Offshore Basin’ to Be Built at Saenggok Industrial Complex
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The world’s largest deepwater offshore basin will be built at the Saenggok Industrial Complex.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the deepwater offshore basin, a key infrastructure facility of the shipbuilding & offshore plant Industry, was held at the Saenggok Industrial Complex in Gangseo-gu with about 250 participants including Busan Mayor Suh Byung-soo, Minister of Trade, Industry & Energy Yoon Sang-jick on February 13, 2015.
The ‘Deepwater Offshore Basin’ is a model basin that was designed and constructed in a realistic and well-defined offshore environment accounting for – wind, waves and current – to evaluate and verify offshore plant designs.
Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MTIE), Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF), the City of Busan, Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., and Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering of Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology made an agreement to build the deepwater offshore basin (MTIE, three companies) and deepwater offshore engineering research center (MMAF) on 27,750 ㎡ of land in Saenggok District by 2016.
An Ocean Engineering Basin (56 m×30 m×4.5 m) and Ice Model Basin (42 m×32 m×2.5 m) in the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering have been used for the performance evaluations of ship and offshore construction. But, these basins are limited by their low water depth and size and therefore the new deepwater basin (100 m long x 50 m wide x 15 m deep) will more accurately recreate a deep-sea environment to a maximum water depth of 3,000 meters by making a 35 meter deep pit from the basin floor.
As the world largest basin, it will be used for evaluating offshore plant design but also for luring the offshore plant service industry including offshore platform transport, installation, operation and dismantling. The city expects it will reinforce competitiveness of domestic offshore plant industry.
Construction of the deepwater offshore basin in Busan expects to generate 125.6 billion won in regional economic impacts by creating high quality jobs.
< Size Comparison of Domestic and International Ocean Engineering Basin>
Country
Basin Size(L*B*D)
Pit depth
Korea (Busan)
100*50*15
35m
Korea (Daedeok)
56*30*4.5
13.5m
Netherland
170*40*5 / 45*36*10.3
20m
Norway
80*50*0-10
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Brazil
40*30*0-15
10m
Sweden
88*39*0-3.2
8m
