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This needs its own thread. The biggest vessel ever sent to sea.
Shell’s massive Prelude hull world’s biggest-ever floating vessel and first ocean-based LNG plant
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has completed building the hull of the world’s largest floating facility, which has been constructed to process natural gas off the coast of western Australia.
Shell said Tuesday that the 488-meter (1,600 foot) hull of the structure, known as “Prelude,” was floated out of the dry dock in Geoje, South Korea where it is being built.
With a bow and stern half a kilometre apart, four football pitches would fit on the vessel’s deck were it not for a clutter of kit towering up to 93 metres high that will take in the equivalent of 110,000 barrels of oil per day in natural gas and cool it into liquefied natural gas for transport and sale in Asia. It will float above gas fields.
Shell says it can remain in place through a category 5 cyclone.
Construction began last year, three years after the project was announced. Gas production is slated to begin in 2017.
It will be the biggest vessel ever sent to sea – but as the Prelude FLNG vessel was launched on Tuesday, plans were already under way for something bigger.
Now, as the partly-built structure floats out of dry dock for the first time, developer Royal Dutch Shell wants to consolidate its advantage as the first mover in Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) – an as-yet untried technology for which Prelude will be the flagship.
The oil company’s technicians are designing something even larger and tougher than Prelude, a vessel that will need to last 25 years moored in the Indian Ocean’s “cyclone alley” off Australia’s northwest coast, producing enough gas to supply a city the size of Hong Kong.
Read the rest HERE
This needs its own thread. The biggest vessel ever sent to sea.
Shell’s massive Prelude hull world’s biggest-ever floating vessel and first ocean-based LNG plant
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has completed building the hull of the world’s largest floating facility, which has been constructed to process natural gas off the coast of western Australia.
Shell said Tuesday that the 488-meter (1,600 foot) hull of the structure, known as “Prelude,” was floated out of the dry dock in Geoje, South Korea where it is being built.
With a bow and stern half a kilometre apart, four football pitches would fit on the vessel’s deck were it not for a clutter of kit towering up to 93 metres high that will take in the equivalent of 110,000 barrels of oil per day in natural gas and cool it into liquefied natural gas for transport and sale in Asia. It will float above gas fields.
Shell says it can remain in place through a category 5 cyclone.
Construction began last year, three years after the project was announced. Gas production is slated to begin in 2017.
It will be the biggest vessel ever sent to sea – but as the Prelude FLNG vessel was launched on Tuesday, plans were already under way for something bigger.
Now, as the partly-built structure floats out of dry dock for the first time, developer Royal Dutch Shell wants to consolidate its advantage as the first mover in Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) – an as-yet untried technology for which Prelude will be the flagship.
The oil company’s technicians are designing something even larger and tougher than Prelude, a vessel that will need to last 25 years moored in the Indian Ocean’s “cyclone alley” off Australia’s northwest coast, producing enough gas to supply a city the size of Hong Kong.
Read the rest HERE
I believe that now, the Middle East section can be officially called trolls section. Every troll of the forum tries to engage heavily in those non sense troll discussions. The total useful information of that section is exactly zero. I wanna leave that section as well.
