Recently, China Classification Society (CCS) attended the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held at the NRG Center in Houston, known as the “energy capital” of the US. The theme of the conference this year is “Leading Global Energy Evolution.”.

At this OTC, CCS has showcased the latest technological service achievements in traditional offshore oil and gas engineering, offshore wind power, and other new energy fields to the industry in recent years.

For example, the world’s first 100,000t semi-submersible production and storage platform FPSO “Deep Sea No. 1,” Asia’s first 300-meter deep-water jacket “Haiji-1,” Asia’s first cylindrical floating, production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) facility, and China’s first deep-sea floating wind power platform “CNOOC Guanlan.”

In addition, CCS has also demonstrated its latest technical service products and global technical service capabilities in an all-round manner through multimedia forms such as video. Among them, CCS’s technical service products have attracted widespread attention and strong interest from customers in Europe, America, Southeast Asia, and China, including lifecycle technical services, offshore wind power services, engineering critical assessment (ECA), risk-based inspection (RBI), marine environmental data library application, subsea production systems (SPS), inspection of special products for offshore industry, etc.

In this year, CCS’ stand has attracted marine professionals from regulatory authorities, petroleum companies, engineering design companies, scientific research institutions, technical service companies, professional equipment manufacturers, etc. around the world by virtue of its design concept of “openness, inclusiveness, Chinese style, international style” and “professional and diversified” technical service capabilities. CCS has interacted with new and old customers in a face-to-face manner at the event site to promote CCS’s service products and explore future development space and cooperation directions.

Started in 1969, the OTC is co-hosted by 15 non-profit industry organizations and societies. More than 1300 exhibitors  participated in this OTC, with an increase of 30% compared to 2023 (1000). Over 31,000 energy professionals from about 100 countries and regions around the world attended this OTC, an increase of 29% compared to 2023 (24,000). During the event, 45 special technical lectures were delivered, over 450 technical presentations were made, and up to 300 technical papers were published.