China's oil rigs enter the "high threshold" market

With the continuous expansion of China's overseas oil and gas technology services and exploration and development business, China's oil drilling rig export has gone through the overseas development process of "borrowing ships to sea". More than a month ago, China's oil equipment export enterprises won the contract to export the first heavy oil drilling rig to Oman national drilling company.

As we all know, the developed petroleum and petrochemical industry in Gulf countries is a "high threshold" market, which requires not only high standard and high quality products and professional after-sales service, but also the price advantage of Chinese products. China's oil rigs can be accepted by the "harsh" Omani customers, which shows that while maintaining the price advantage, the overseas marketing, product quality and after-sales service level of China's oil drilling rigs have risen to a new height. This also marks that China's oil drilling rig export has gradually stepped forward from "borrowing a ship to going to sea" to "driving a ship to sea".



Gao Li, director of the project coordination department of China Chamber of Commerce for import and export of mechanical and electrical products, told reporters that China's oil drilling rig export situation has been good in the past two or three years, especially since last year, the export volume and amount have increased rapidly. According to statistics, in the first half of 2006, China's oil drilling and production equipment exports amounted to about 590 million US dollars.



The technology and quality level of China's oil drilling rig manufacturing and the overall supporting capacity are close to the international level. The price of domestic oil drilling rig is about 1 / 3 lower than that of the same type of oil drilling rig in the international market. China's oil drilling rig has considerable competitiveness in the international market with its high cost performance ratio. At present, the manufacturing capacity of China's oil drilling rigs has reached about 250 sets per year, most of which are used to meet the domestic market demand, and 1 / 3 of the products are exported to the international market. In the past, the export of drilling rigs under the project has achieved good results in the international market and has been recognized by the international market. Now, with the high international crude oil price and the peak of oil exploitation, all countries have increased their investment in the oil industry, which has promoted the rapid growth of China's oil rig exports, and the number of oil drilling rig exports under trade has also begun to increase.



Gao Li specially pointed out that the oil drilling rig is a group of complex large-scale complete sets of equipment, and more than 100 suppliers are needed for its direct and indirect matching. Further expanding the market share of China's oil drilling rig export is a systematic project, which not only involves the design scheme, overall matching, on-site installation and testing and debugging of oil drilling rig itself, but also needs to improve the overseas marketing, after-sales service, personnel training and supporting service ability of parts supply.



In an interview with the reporter, the relevant personnel of the oil equipment export enterprise said that the breakthrough of China's oil drilling rigs in Oman market is determined by the current manufacturing capacity and overall supporting level of China's oil drilling rigs and the overall strength of the enterprise. He was also pleased to receive the first oil rig procurement contract from Oman. Oman national drilling company is a newly established drilling company, and the drilling rig is the first heavy-duty drilling rig purchased by the company. Winning the contract means that China's petroleum drilling rig has an advantage in the company's future procurement; on the other hand, the contract also lays a good foundation for China's petroleum equipment, especially large complete sets of petroleum equipment, to enter the market of other Gulf countries.



It is pointed out in the industry that there is still more or less gap between China's oil drilling rigs and international ones, and there is no drilling rig with advanced technology, stable quality, high reliability and strong competitiveness that can compete in the international market. Therefore, China's oil drilling rig industry should aim at the international market demand, make more efforts in product quality, reliability and new technology application, and build China into a powerful oil rig manufacturing country in the process of transferring the global drilling rig manufacturing center to China.



Some people in the industry are also worried that the soaring oil price in recent years has driven the global market demand for oil drilling rigs, and domestic oil rig manufacturers have expanded their production capacity. At the same time, the capacity problem when the market demand is no longer strong in the future should be considered. In addition, with the rapid increase in the export of oil drilling rigs, can enterprises also take into account the quality control, after-sales service, personnel training and other one-stop supporting services of drilling rigs, so as to ensure the normal operation of drilling rigs.