Prelude Floating Lng Terminal

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Summary Information

• Ownership: Shell / Inpex
• Website: http://www.shell.com
• Location: Browse Basin, off the northwest coast of Australia
• Capacity: 3.6 million tonnes per annum
• Status: Planned

Brief Description

• Prelude is a floating facility. The dimensions of Shell’s FLNG facility are approximately 480 by 75 metres, and when fully ballasted, the FLNG facility will weigh around 600,000 tonnes. The platform will be the largest ship ever built
• The Prelude field is located in the Browse Basin, northeast of Broome Western Australia, in water depths of approximately 820 feet (250 meters)

Technical Details

• Storage capacity:
• Constructor: Samsung Heavy Industries / Technip
• Licensor: The technology for the project has been jointly developed between Shell, Technip & Samsung
• GE is to provide the compression trains
• Air Products is providing the liquefaction technology
• Heatric is to supply printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHEs)

Ongoing Projects/Project Status

• Environmental approval obtained (November 2010)
• Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) phase of development
• Final investment decision has been made (May 2011)
• The project is expected to be completed in 2016

Suppliers / Customers

• Suppliers: Shell's Prelude Gas Field and Concerto Gas Field
• Customers:

History

• 2009 - Shell awarded a consortium of Technip and Samsung Heavy Industries the contract for the design, construction and installation of multiple FLNG facilities over a period of up to 15 years, based upon Shell’s proprietary design. Shell is planning for the first of these facilities to be deployed at the Prelude FLNG Project.
• 2010 - Environmental approval obtained
• 2011 - Final investment decision taken
• 2011 - Technip / Samsung launch design process
• 2012 - Nexus non-binding HOA with Shell & Osaka Gas to join project
• 2012 - Inpex agrees to acquire a 17.5% participating interest in the project

Other Information

• Prelude is the first project of a master agreement with a consortium comprising Technip and Samsung for the design, construction and installation of multiple floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities over a period of up to fifteen years.
• Below is an animation of the terminal

Relevant Links

• Project Homepage
• Prelude LNG development to deploy Shell's Floating LNG technology
• Shell awards floating LNG contracts to Technip and Samsung
• Shell’s Prelude Floating LNG Project receives environmental approval
• Shell decides to move forward with groundbreaking Floating LNG
• Technip Samsung Consortium to start detailed design and construction of Shell’s innovative FLNG facility
• FMC Technologies to Supply Subsea Systems for Shell's Prelude Project
• Air Products’ Leading Technology Selected for World’s First Floating LNG facility at Shell’s Australia Prelude Project
• GE Technology Selected for World’s Largest Floating LNG Platform
• Heatric to supply PCHEs for world’s first floating LNG facility
• Nexus non-binding HOA with Shell & Osaka Gas
• INPEX participates in the Prelude FLNG Project, offshore Australia
• FMC Technologies Awarded Offshore Loading Arm Systems Contract

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