Raw Materials Pre-Treatment
Steel plate, shapes and small diameter carbon steel pipe are washed, blasted and coated with a holding primer in the automatic pre-treatment line prior to fabrication activities. Mill scale, rust and other contaminants are all quickly and efficiently removed from the raw materials before moving into the pre-fabrication shops.

Plate Shop
The Plate Shop is a large building comprising 2 bays with a total covered area of 11,700 Sq M.

Steel plate is fed into the shop via heavy duty conveyors and lifted onto the modern plasma / gas cutting beds. These state of the art machines accept digital nesting data input and perform highly accurate and rapid plate cutting.

Powerful band saws, brake press, drilling machines as well as the latest welding machines are all part of the contemporary fabrication tools available. This well lit and ventilated building is serviced with a fleet of 13 overhead bridge and semi gantry cranes and incorporates a wireless network for instant communication of progress data to the QMW application servers.

Pipe Shops
Like the plate shop, all equipment in the pipe shops is the latest that technology offers. The building comprises of two separate bays, partitioned to help prevent cross contamination of the carbon steel bay over to the exotics bay. Materials flow logically from the north storage area and end at the huge fully enclosed 4 bay radiography bunker at the south end. Again these shops are serviced by overhead bridge and semi gantry cranes as well as a multitude of column mounted swivel cranes.

Blasting & Painting Chambers
To permit coatings activities to be performed in any weather condition and to conform with local environmental regulations QMW have invested in six enormous fully enclosed and climatically controlled chambers. Three chambers for blasting and three separate coating’s chambers. The four largest chambers are 40 m long by 30 m wide allowing full deck pancakes to be treated as a whole. The two smaller chambers are designed to cater for the coating of fabricated pipe spools.

Module Assembly Building
Pride of the facility and indeed the envy of all  the McDermott fabrication yards worldwide, is the QMW fully enclosed module assembly building. With 32 m of clear height below the hooks of the 100t bridge cranes this building comprises of 4 individual bays each 120 m long by 50 m wide. Electrically powered mega-doors are closed during periods of inclement weather and quickly opened when required. A modern ventilation system maintains the atmosphere inside the building free from pollution of fabrication cutting and welding activities. Structures are moved by crane/trailers/dollies to the open erection area for final assembly, or directly to the quayside for load-out and integration. Like all other areas within this contemporary facility a wireless network allows the free flow of data from handheld devices to the array of data servers in the facility.

Quayside & Slipways
Fully, or partially completed modules or decks are transported from the module assembly building by digitally controlled SPMT trailers to the 376 Metre long quaywall where two slipways and loadout piers are situated. Designed to handle loads of up to 25,000t this quayside is situated in the sheltered waters of the Hai Xi basin but is only a few nautical miles from the open waters of the Yellow Sea.

Yard Mobilization - Progress Update