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We're gonna need a bigger boat: Shell builds floating oil refinery 6x aircraft carrier
The Daily Mail ^ | 5/20/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 05/20/2011 3:29:29 PM PDT by Teflonic

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To: omega4179

In a hurry to get a low posting number, perhaps?

Okay, I posted before reading as well. Excuse me while I go back and do it right.


21 posted on 05/20/2011 5:38:37 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad ((((( )))))
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Nope, Korea.
I think Japan is a little busy sprucing up right now.

“A South Korean shipyard is due to start building the vessel using five times more steel than was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It should be finished in 2017.”


22 posted on 05/20/2011 5:39:28 PM PDT by Loyal Sedition (Loyal Sedition, often described as "To the right of Attila The Hun"!)
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To: Teflonic
giant floating gas refinery, named the Prelude, in a project that will cost $10billion

There goes their obscene profits.

23 posted on 05/20/2011 5:44:22 PM PDT by bikerman (Where Has My America Gone?)
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To: Teflonic

I suggested this back in 2008, for just the same reason. IE: put a refinery outside of US waters, and the EPA has no authority.


24 posted on 05/20/2011 5:49:12 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Moonman62

The ability to relocate a billion dollar refinery if the local land-based government decides to nationalize it is a benefit on any continent these days.


25 posted on 05/20/2011 5:51:39 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: okie01

I liken that ship to the Hindenberg! I’ll take your word for it of course, but can you imagine being the guy in charge of safety on that thing?


26 posted on 05/20/2011 6:14:23 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: okie01
The "Prelude" solves the economic feasibility issue -- collecting and processing the gas, then trans-shipping the product to a tanker.

AT $10 billion I wonder how economic it will be.

27 posted on 05/20/2011 6:17:09 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

It may not be very economical period, if shale extraction technology continues to improve.


28 posted on 05/20/2011 7:07:39 PM PDT by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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To: omega4179
So far, no one has read the article.

It must be a day that ends in an "y" here at FR.

29 posted on 05/20/2011 7:10:02 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Yes, this probably has something to do with the fact that they are building this in Korea and not the United States. Unions have killed the shipyards aside from government contracts.


30 posted on 05/20/2011 7:11:44 PM PDT by MSF BU (YR'S Please Support our troops: JOIN THEM!)
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To: omega4179

I think it’s an effort to read between the lines. Is it to reduce costs or avoid regulation. Probably both, but Shell can’t say it’s to avoid regulations. here’s another one, the NY Times is not always telling the truth. Ahhhh.


31 posted on 05/20/2011 7:16:37 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: Teflonic

If you would like to discuss Floating LNG, or to have a broader discussion about technology and natural gas, please visit Shell’s online forum where we are currently discussing ‘How can technology help to unlock the world’s gas resources?’ It would be great to hear your comments.


32 posted on 05/24/2011 7:20:33 AM PDT by ShellDialogues
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