Regional LNG: Consortium to start construction of Shell?s FLNG facility

Shell Development (Australia) Pty Ltd (Shell) has given notice Monday to a Technip Samsung Consortium (TSC) to proceed with the construction of the first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility in the world.

 

TSC will provide engineering, procurement, construction and installation for the FLNG facility Shell will deploy at its Prelude gas field off the northwest coast of Australia.

 

Moored far out at sea, some 200 kilometres from the nearest land, the Prelude FLNG facility will produce gas from offshore fields and liquefy it onboard by cooling.

 

 

The Shell Prelude FLNG facility will be the largest floating offshore facility in the world, with 488 meters from bow to stern - longer than four soccer fields laid end to end. When fully loaded, it will weigh around 600,000 tonnes.

 

Technip, leader of the consortium, is one of the largest firms in the fields of project management, engineering and construction for the oil and gas industry, subsea, offshore and onshore, with 23,000 staff and offices in 48 countries.

 

 

 

Samsung is one of the largest shipyards in Korea and amongst the largest in the world with a capacity to build 65 commercial ships and 250,000 tonnes of offshore topside modules each year. (alex)