Introduction to GUMECO

Guangzhou Marine Engineering Corporation (GUMECO) was established in 1974. GUMECO, under the leadership of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), is the largest engineering design and scientific research organization in South China region. GUMECO is mainly involved in offshore engineering, ship design, electromechanical products, steel structure engineering, project management, engineering turnkey contracts and shipyard technical renovation & advisory services, etc. GUMECO has got Grade A certificates of ship design and offshore exploration/engineering issued by the State.

GUMECO has over 150 senior engineers and engineers of different disciplines, specialized in the fields related to ship design and offshore projects such as architectural design, mechanics, hydrodynamics, marine environment, oil/gas collection & transportation and process, subsea pipeline, machinery & mechanism, HVAC, electricity, navigation, instrumentation, automatic technology, engineering economy, project management and quality control. Most of the engineers have been trained overseas and they are qualified to undertake their jobs.

In the early of GUMECO, it was mainly engaged in the design and scientific research on ships. Since the beginning of 1980s, GUMECO has gradually expanded its business of design and scientific research on high performance ships and offshore engineering including various passenger ships, container ships, cargo vessels, oil tankers, engineering vessels & high performance ships. With the ocean development of our country, GUMECO is the first to develop offshore engineering technology and the market and has provided a lot of service to the development of Nanhai oilfield and Bohai oilfield in our country.

In the field of offshore engineering, GUMECO's design results have reflected its international advanced technical level because it has effectively introduced the oilfield development technology from abroad and has carried out technical cooperation between China and the foreign countries towards the target. The technology of single point mooring terminal and multi-point mooring terminal especially occupies the lead position in China. GUMECO has completed the research on swivel, the key component applied to single point mooring terminal system and the research result has been listed as the national scientific result. The fan-weathervane counterweight mooring system, a new offshore technology, is developed and has been patented in China.

GUMECO has undertaken and completed domestic or foreign engineering design and scientific research for over 40 projects of offshore structure, offshore loading/offloading engineering, scientific research & design such as the basic design of floating production storage unit, the detail design of living/power modules in "Zone A" and accommodation/power module in Zone B, SZ36-1 oilfield in Bo Hai, the basic design of JZ9-3 artificial island project in Bo Hai Bay, the detail design of living quarters for Nanhai W 11-4 oilfield, Beibu gulf, South China Sea, the structural design of a semi-submersible drilling platform, a semi-submersible production platform and a 140,000 dwt floating dock for Singapore Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd., single point mooring system terminal project in Shuidong Harbor for Mao Ming Petro-chemical Corporation, 350,000 dwt single point production system terminal project and its multipurpose vessel for Hainan Hohbond International Petrochemical Industry Port, the design of 50,000dwt multi-point mooring system terminal project for Asia Pacific Infrastructure Corporation in Guangxi province, the engineering of multi-point mooring system for Minsk Aircraft World in Shenzhen, the special topic research of new type of FPSO for CNOOC, and so on.

All engineering projects above have been checked and approved by American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) or Det Norske Veritas (DnV) and the Register of shipping of the People's Republic of China. (CCS). Many of the projects have been awarded the prize of National Scientific and Technological Advancement.

Besides all, GUMECO had built up the advanced full-switched Giga-Ethernet based on the structural cabling technology, and equipped with multiple heavy laser jet printer and large-scale plotter, also introduced multiple engineering software such as Autoship, Staad Pro, TermsimII, NAPA, ANSYS, NASTRAN, Mastership, AQWA-Offshore, Shipflow, and so on. Now we have established up-to-date CAD/CAE system and enterprise Intranet system, which will provide GUMECO with solid foundation for its engineering and technology development, and favorable conditions for its e-management and e-business application.

GUMECO has a long-term and extensive technical cooperation and connection with the people of the same occupation at home and with foreign specialized companies in the same field. GUMECO has also set up an engineering company and a construction supervision company, which will provide all service of design, engineering contract, and project management/supervision construction for clients.

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