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CHINA’S HUDONG BUILDING LNG

FLEET FOR QATAR PETROLEUM

Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua some of Qatar’s existing LNG fleet, an in Pudong, Puxi, Changxing Island and
Shipbuilding Group Co., a subsidiary of official of the state-owned oil company Chongming Island of Shanghai. Besides,
China State Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd. said. the company has also interest-controlled
(CSSC), will build four liquified natural gas These four carriers are the first batch many businesses, boasting a complete
(LNG) carriers for Qatar Petroleum. of orders in Qatar Petroleum’s massive set of marine equipment fabrication
LNG shipbuilding program, which will industrial chains.
The deal, worth Riyals 11 billion (US$3.02 cater for future LNG fleet requirements Hudong-Zhonghua possesses shipbuild-
billion), with Hudong will see a signifi- for the North Field expansion projects as ing and marine equipment manufacturing
cant portion of the company’s LNG ship well as for existing vessel replacement bases covering an area of 4.8 million
construction capacity reserved for QP requirements. This order is also the first m2, 7,300m wharf lines, 19 quays, five
through 2027. ever placed by Qatar Petroleum or any of 300,000DWT VLCC class dry docks,
Qatar Petroleum’s LNG carrier fleet pro- its affiliates with a Chinese shipyard for eight gantry cranes of 600ton capacity
gram is the largest of its kind in the history LNG ships, and the first with Hudong in or above, various automatic production
of the LNG industry and will play a pivotal connection with the agreement to reserve equipment and state-of-the-art flat sec-
role in meeting the shipping requirements ship construction capacity that was exe- tion and curved section production lines,
of Qatar Petroleum’s local and interna- cuted in April 2020. managing a combined asset worth more
tional LNG projects, as well as replacing Hudong’s production is mainly carried out than 38 billion RMB.

KEEN INTEREST IN with the vehicle, therefore all ground
segment devices are optimized for inte-
gration and operation on ground vehicle.
WARMATE 2 The ground segment comprises a ground
control station (GCS) that is a ruggedized,
touch screen computer that allows the
Polish technological firm WB Group is The AV is catapult launched and rugge- user to control the AV and view visual
offering its new Warmate 2, an upgraded dized, vehicle mounted ground station data, and a data transceiver, which is a
version of the unmanned strike system, controls the operation of the air vehicle. digital and bidirectional, ground data ter-
to countries in the Middle East and North Each Warmate 2 AV is stored and trans- minal (GDT), secured datalink that allows
Africa region. ported in dedicated hard case, which for the transmission of flight controls from
The much bigger and mightier Warmate 2 allows to charge onboard batteries with- the GCS to the AV.
adds more impact power and flight endur- out pulling AV out. “Users can easily set and modify flight
ance to the precision and swiftness of it Warmate 2 is designed to be integrated plans using the user-friendly software
earlier version. installed on the GCS. Realtime data from
The combat Air Vehicle (AV) provides a the AV is displayed on the same screen
highly accurate strike capability with an as a map detailing the location, speed,
anti-personal, anti-tank or thermobaric and altitude of the AV,” the official said.
warhead. The addition of a daylight and One ground vehicle contains 2 GCS
thermal camera (uncooled IR), integrated devices. First one is for the operator
in the fuselage allows for automated tar- to control the AV, second is for com-
geting and the assessment of a target mander to supervise ongoing operation.
before finalizing a strike, a company offi- The Air Vehicle takes off from the vehicle
cial said. mounted, elastomer launcher.
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