Chapter 225: Deep-Sea Submersibles
Since the Toyo has a serious strong cult complex, the most effective way to negotiate with the Toyo is to have a physical or spiritual friendly exchange with the Toyo before the negotiation begins.
The most obvious example of this is the American and Oriental .avi.
When the second round of negotiations opened, Qi Lianshan and others still implemented the strategy of buying and buying, not buying, but this time they got positive feedback from the Orientals, instead of selling if they loved to sell and pull down if they didn't sell like in the first round of negotiations.
Since the directional things are consistent, what remains is nothing more than a dispute over the details of how many interests, and from the general direction, Liang Yuan's plan to package Liwan Resources for listing has been successful for most of the time.
However, if Liang Yuan wants to hold the money in his hands, he has to get the deep-sea mining equipment into the field first.
Norway's Subsea 7 is literally translated as Submarine 7 within the Yuanjia system, to the effect that it is hoped that enterprises will work towards the direction of all-weather ocean construction.
Seabed Seven is a seabed operation and underwater construction has a strong strength of the old enterprise, if the history of the predecessor of the seabed seven is founded in 1845 Norwegian Steamship Company, the scale of this old Norwegian enterprise has been small, in the shipping industry inconsequentially after more than 100 years, in the European seventies to open up the North Sea oil and gas resources in the wave, Norwegian Steamship Company has expanded its business, for the first time to extend its business tentacles into the offshore oil and gas service industry.
Through a series of mergers and acquisitions in the 80s, Subsea 7 has completely faded out of the shipping industry and transformed into an offshore equipment and subsea engineering contractor for the installation, inspection, repair and maintenance of subsea structures in the offshore oil and gas industry, and is also one of the first-tier companies providing divers for the exploration and development of oil and gas resources in the North Sea.
Although the scale of the submarine seven is not large at this time, but the marine equipment industry chain is very complete, from the construction of offshore platform facilities to the construction and maintenance of submarine pipelines, from the traditional manned conventional diving to the cutting-edge unmanned remote control diving, the company has relevant business departments, Liu Wenyue was able to successfully acquire the success of the R & D department of the submarine seven, and mobilized funds to develop a new large-scale diving platform.
As early as the first moment when the reserves of Liwan resources were confirmed, Haihai 7 received a contract for the comprehensive development of the deep-water mining area in the Liwan area.
After more than two months of discussion, with the instigation and support of Liang Yuan, intentionally or unintentionally, the technical route of choosing a retired nuclear submarine as a relay platform for submarine workstations has become the current key research and development direction of Undersea 7.
There are about three technical approaches to deep-sea exploration around the world: manned submersibles (HOVs), cable-operated vehicles (ROVs), and autonomous submersibles (AUVs).
These three technical styles of deep-sea submersibles have their own characteristics, HOV has the strongest operational capability and accuracy, but the deeper the dive, the more budget the HOV submersible will use for human life support, and how to balance performance and cost is the main problem in the design and development of HOV in the case of limited energy space of the submersible.
Cable-controlled ROV has the advantage of human on-site operation, second only to HOV in terms of operation ability and accuracy, and the submersible is not subject to the life support system, and can maintain the underwater operation time for a long time with high intensity, so ROV has always been in the mainstream position in the field of deep-sea exploration.
Autonomous submersible AUV is a fully automatic submersible, which can carry out long-distance and large-scale search or exploratory operations without being affected by negative factors such as the rocking of the mother ship and the wind and waves on the sea.
For human beings, in a sense, ocean deep-sea exploration and outer space exploration have a high similarity, equipment needs top-level sealing, limited space and limited energy carrying of equipment itself, and so on.
Many astronauts choose to train in the water before going to space, and if one day humans can really enter the starry sky, the name of the top armed force will most likely be called the Interstellar Navy instead of the Interstellar Air Force.
However, the aerospace industry involved in outer space is supported by a series of national defense and economic needs such as ballistic missiles, national security, communication satellites, and meteorological satellites, and the industry is far better than the investment in marine deep-sea equipment.
Deep-sea exploration is a special industry in a special industry, which has extremely high industrial capacity requirements for metallurgy, energy, automation, electric power and other fields, and almost all countries in the world that have the ability to develop deep-sea equipment have little motivation to invest in the deep-sea field.
The demand for equipment in the deep-sea field is the development of mineral resources and the diving technology for militarization, and the demand for militarization is almost monopolized by the weapon category of submarines.
Before the growth of the bottomless pit of resources in the Republic, whether it was the developed countries of the West or the great Soviets, they all belonged to resource-rich countries with no shortage of resources or no shortage of resource sources, and the demand for the so-called development of deep-sea mineral resources was seriously insufficient, and it was hardly favored by capital.
There is a certain demand for the development of deep-sea mineral resources in the Oriental economy, but because the deep-sea diving technology is easy to be applied to military submarines, before the rise of the national power of the Republic, the United States has quite a good control over the military potential of the Orient, and it is convenient and safe for the Oriental consortium to develop deep-sea diving equipment rather than risk offending his father with all his blood.
The last round of investment in deep-sea diving equipment was the embargo on Western oil launched by the Arab world in the seventies, when the oil and gas resources of the North Sea rose in response, and deep-sea diving equipment once became a hot spot for investment.
The investment opportunities that deep-sea diving equipment can obtain in the 90s completely depend on the personal hobbies of a local tyrant or wealthy family, or the personalized needs of deep diving enthusiasts.
This seemingly high-tech field has not been affected by the wave of human industrial production, which makes the R&D and production of deep-sea diving equipment have distinctive characteristics of private customization of equipment, endless technical circles, and extremely expensive semi-manual production.
In order to realize his dream and explore filming technology, Cameron privately spent tens of millions of dollars to customize and develop the world's largest manned submersible at that time.
When the Internet tide came at the turn of the century, three or five people could get a valuation of $1.8 billion on any good website, and the market value of the world's top three deep-sea engineering service companies, which were also listed on the NASDAQ, was only a pitiful $2 billion.
It is precisely because of this capital status quo that grandma does not kiss and uncle does not love that Liang Tuhao, who crashed headlong into the field of deep-sea diving equipment, is particularly different.
Except for Liang Yuan, who has ulterior motives, no other investor in the world will be interested in the technical idea of using retired nuclear submarines as a relay platform for deep-diving equipment as a technology conspired by the R&D department of the seventh undersea submarine.
Not to mention whether it can be bought, even if it can be bought, the decommissioned nuclear submarine will have to start at 50 million US dollars no matter how worthless it is, and if the renovation cost is added, whether the entire project of 200 million US dollars can be stopped is in two words.
What the hell is it that nuclear submarines have greatly improved the efficiency of deep-sea construction? Is there any difference between oil platforms producing oil in three years or in one year?
Resources are there, will not run away, no matter how many years of your construction period, the resources themselves do not increase or decrease, in the cost of oil exploitation, labor cost can be said to be the lowest proportion of the project cost expenditure.
If we put aside the current situation of the industry and investment benefits, and only consider from the perspective of improving productivity, the submarine relay platform plan of Haihai VII is a very good deep-sea platform equipment development plan.
The diving limit of human beings with the assistance of equipment is 701 meters, beyond this depth can only rely on deep diving equipment, among the three major diving equipment, autonomous equipment is mostly used in the exploration direction rather than the construction direction, which can be ignored.
Whether it's a manned deep diving vehicle (HOV) or a mainstream cable-operated vehicle (ROV), the important role that a relay platform can play can even be emphasized and described in the word decisive.
In the relatively vast ocean, the self-propelled ability of deep diving equipment can be regarded as zero, so the mother ship carrying the submersible is a necessary configuration.
Regardless of whether there is a person or not, all deep-sea diving equipment is limited by limited space, if the submersible itself carries energy, the battery life is limited, and if the submersible uses cable power supply and real-time data transmission, it is severely limited by the cable length and the sea conditions of the mother ship.
If the mother ship is measured by the length of the cable, it will instantly need ten meters or more of the cable elastic buffer to maintain the cable without breaking.
This requirement seems simple, but it is extremely difficult to achieve in actual engineering, and the energy generated by the waves is almost instantaneously released, which has quite perverted requirements for the cable retraction, control equipment and the strength of the cable itself.
Even so, once the sea state exceeds level 4, no matter what technology the mother ship uses, there is almost no only way to stop the recovery equipment.
In the deep-sea area where the water depth is more than 1,000 meters, even if there is no typhoon level 4 sea conditions, it is just a daily routine, and the wind and the sunny weather suitable for construction are heretical.
For manned wireless submersibles, as long as the sea conditions do not exceed level 6, it will not affect the safe recovery of the ship by the mother ship, and the operation time only depends on the consumption of its own energy.
The submarine 7's nuclear power relay platform program was born out of a technical idea to solve the above pain points.
The average working depth of nuclear submarines is about 300 meters, and even if there is a typhoon on the surface of the sea, it will not affect the calm of the waters where the nuclear submarine is located.
The long-term stability of the platform is equally crucial for both manned HOVs and tail-dragging ROVs.
。 m.