Qatar orders 18 gas turbines from China

Qatar Energy, a Qatari fuel and power company, signed another contract with China State Shipbuilding corp in April. The value of this contract exceeds the equivalent of US$6 billion (about PLN 24.5 billion), and it includes the construction of 18 gas carriers for the transport of LNG. They will be the largest ships of this kind in the planet with a capacity of about 270 1000 cubic meters of gas each. The dimension of each ship in this series will be 344 metres and the width of 53.6 metres. The first 8 units will be built from 2028 to 29, while the remaining 10 will enter into operation from 2030 to 31.

Currently in China there is simply a contract of Qatar Energy for 12 another types of gas. The contract is implemented by shipyards belonging to ShangHai Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group (chin. 上海沪东中华造船集团有限公司 ).

China presently has a 25% global order book for LNG vessels compared to 71% owned by South Korea.

The planet shipbuilding manufacture is dominated by shipyards of 3 countries: China, South Korea and Japan. With the decline in Japan's share observed in fresh years, the trend of China and South Korea is increasingly evident. According to the China Shipyard manufacture Association (chin. 中国船舶工业行业协会), in the first 2 months of this year Chinese shipyards were liable worldwide for:

• 56.5% of ships completed in operational tests,
• 69.5% of ships fresh orders and
• 56.1% of ships transferred to shipowners.

At the end of February 2024, China received orders for vessels with a full capacity of 149.19 million tonnes, an increase of 31.3% year-on-year. Of these, 91.8% were export vessels.

Source:

• cansi.org.cn;
• csoa.cn;
• 163.com;
• brsshipbrokers.com;

According to UK think-tank EMBER calculations in 2023, clean, green energy accounted for 35% of Chinese energy mix.

Water was according to EMBER the largest single origin of clean energy, at 13%.

The share of wind and solar energy reached a fresh evidence level of 16%, above the planet average (13%). In 2023 China generated 37% of global wind and solar energy, which would have been adequate to meet Japan's energy needs.

In the same 2023, China met 65% of energy needs by producing energy from fossil fuels, making the mediate States the largest CO2 and greenhouse gas issuer in the world. Emissions in the energy sector per capita were more than twice the global average.

The request for electricity in China in 2023 continued to grow, expanding by 6.9% year-on-year. The wind and solar energy satisfied 46% of this increase in demand, but coal supplied the rest. As a result, emissions in the Chinese energy sector increased by 5.9% compared to 2022 – almost six times the global increase by 1%. However, this increase would have been greater if it had not been for the evidence amount of wind and solar energy. China is now approaching a critical point where the growth of clean energy sources will outweigh the increase in energy demand. The global Energy Agency forecasts a 3% decline in coal production in China in 2024.

China is on its way to doubling the power of wind and solar power plants by 2030. This will make wind and sun energy 30% in Chinese energy mix.

EMBER, formerly Sandbag, is an independent global squad of energy advisers that uses data and legal regulations to accelerate the transition to clean energy. The UK-based organization was founded in 2008 by Bryony Worthington.

Source: ember-climate.org

Author: 梁安基 Andrzej Z. Liang, 上海 Shanghai, 中国 China

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