| Shell green-lights decision to build Floating Liquefied Natural Gas project |
| Friday, 10 June 2011 00:00 |
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The Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc has decided to go ahead with the investment of the world’s first FLNG facility. This floating mountain will be moored out to sea at a distance of approximately 200 kilometers from the shore.
According to their press release: From bow to stern, Shell's FLNG facility will be 488 metres long, and will be the largest floating offshore facility in the world – longer than four soccer fields laid end to end. When fully equipped and with its storage tanks full, it will weigh around 600,000 tonnes – roughly six times as much as the largest aircraft carrier. Some 260,000 tonnes of that weight will consist of steel – around five times more than was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge. "Our innovative FLNG technology will allow us to develop offshore gas fields that otherwise would be too costly to develop," said Malcolm Brinded, Shell's Executive Director, Upstream International. "Our decision to go ahead with this project is a true breakthrough for the LNG industry, giving it a significant boost to help meet the world's growing demand for the cleanest-burning fossil fuel."
The facility will be able to withstand the severest of cyclone of category 5. Ocean going LNG carriers will dock onto it and will offload the liquefied gas chilled to minus 162 Celsius and shrunk in volume by 600 times. They will then transport it across the world. The facility will be operating on the Prelude gas field in Australia. For further information please visit the Shell website: |
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