Royal Dutch Shell’s Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility has set sail from the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in South Korea on its 5,800-kilometer journey across the ocean to its new home offshore north-western Australia. At 488 meters long by 74 meters wide, the 600,000-tonne Prelude FLNG is the largest offshore structure ever built1. To put that in perspective, Prelude is longer than four full-size football fields laid end-to-end and it displaces six times as much water as the largest aircraft carrier. Prelude FLNG departed Geoje, South Korea on Thursday morning under tow by a team of tugboats. The giant facility is destined for the Browse Basin off North West Australia, where it will be moored in about 200km (125 miles) from land at the Prelude gas field for a period of 20 to 25 years. The facility will be used to chill natural gas produced at the field to –162°C (-260°F), shrinking its volume by 600 times so that it can be exported to customers in the form of LNG.
WORLD SHIPPING
03 July 2017 - 10:00
Update: 04 July 2017 - 07:24
Royal Dutch Shell's Prelude FLNG facility sets sail to Australia
Royal Dutch Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility sets sail to Australia
WORLD SHIPPING
03 July 2017 - 10:00
Update: 04 July 2017 - 07:24
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