Offshore service contractor POSH Terasea has been chosen to offer towage and positioning companies for the Prelude FLNG, the world’s largest offshore facility ever constructed.

POSH Terasea will use 5 vessels, together with 4 massive anchor dealing with and towage vessels and one 16,000 BHP anchor dealing with tug provide vessel, to tow the world’s first floating liquefied pure fuel facility over 3,000 nautical miles from Samsung Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, to Australia, the place it will likely be deployed.

POSH Terasea shall be accountable for the general towage undertaking administration. It will deploy Terasea Osprey, Terasea Falcon, Terasea Hawk, Terasea Eagle, and POSH Champion vessels for the towing undertaking. The firm, which was awarded the undertaking after a aggressive bidding course of, will even place the Prelude FLNG earlier than it begins manufacturing on the Prelude fuel discipline within the Browse LNG Basin, 200 kilometer (km) off the northwest coast of Australia.

The Prelude FLNG is being constructed by the Technip / Samsung Consortium in South Korea for a three way partnership between Royal Dutch Shell, KOGAS, and Inpex. The FLNG facility is 488 meters lengthy and 74 meters vast and has a fully-loaded displacement capability of about 600,000 tons.

The development section of the Prelude FLNG undertaking is properly below means. It has round 260,000 tonnes of metal within the facility alone, round 5 occasions the quantity of metal used to construct the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Once operational, the ability will produce at the least 5.3 million tonnes (mtpa) each year of liquids: 3.6 mtpa of LNG, 1.3 mtpa of condensate (equal to 35,000 bbl/d) and 0.4 mtpa of liquefied petroleum fuel (LPG).

“Towing and positioning a Floating Facilities that is about four times the size of a football field from Korea to a gas field in Australia will be a massive and complex undertaking. We are excited to be entrusted to play such a critical role in this milestone development and look forward to successfully delivering on yet another project,” POSH Terasea President and Director Eric Ng mentioned in a press release.

POSH Terasea is a three way partnership between PACC Offshore Services Holdings and Terasea Pte. Ltd., which is in flip a three way partnership between Seabridge Marine Services and Ezion Holdings.

Writing by Nadeem (c) gCaptain