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Prelude FLNG
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Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) is a revolutionary technology that will allow Shell to access offshore gas fields that would otherwise be too costly or difficult to develop. Prelude FLNG (67.5% Shell) is the world’s first FLNG development.
Technology
The floating facility will chill natural gas produced at the field to –162°C (-260°F), shrinking its volume by 600 times so it can be shipped to customers in other parts of the world.
Ocean-going carriers will load the LNG as well as other liquid by-products (condensate and LPG) for delivery to market.
The Prelude FLNG facility will be 488m (1,600-feet) long, 74m (240-feet) wide and will displace around 600,000 tonnes of water.
It will be the largest floating offshore facility in the world.
The Prelude FLNG facility is being built at Samsung Heavy Industries’ Geoje Island ship yards in South Korea.
The Samsung ship yard is one of the few yards in the world big enough to construct a facility of this size.
Once constructed, the facility will be towed to its location, approximately 475 kilometres (around 300 miles) north-northeast of Broome, Western Australia.
The facility will be moored and hooked up to the undersea infrastructure and the whole production system commissioned.
The Prelude FLNG facility has been designed to withstand the most powerful tropical cyclones.
It will remain permanently moored at the location for around 20-25 years before needing to dock for inspection and overhaul.
The LNG, LPG and condensate produced will be stored in tanks in the hull of the facility.
LNG and LPG carriers will moor alongside to offload the products.
Markets
The Prelude FLNG Project is well placed to help meet the growing natural gas demand of Asia.
