Building it will be a challenge (Image: Shell)
IT WILL be the longest floating vessel ever to ease its way out of a shipyard – 468 metres long, to be precise.
Oil giant Shell wants to exploit the Prelude gas field 475 kilometres north-east of Broome, Western Australia, by building a Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) plant. This “stranded field” is too far from land for a pipeline to connect an extraction rig to a gas liquefaction plant on shore, so Shell plans to combine the two at sea. “In simple terms, the facility can be compared to an island with…
