With building and construction of the Prelude FLNG center nearing conclusion at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, subsea setup teams have actually been hectic functioning offshore Western Australia to prepare the mooring website for the arrival of the substantial center.

Located concerning 300 miles northeast of Broome, Western Australia, Prelude FLNG will certainly anchor and attached to huge subsea network of Christmas trees, manifolds and circulation lines, all attached to gigantic support stacks, and made use of to regulate the circulation of gas.

At 488m (1,600 feet) long, 74m (240 feet) vast, and considering some 600,000 tonnes, the Prelude FLNG will certainly be biggest drifting overseas center worldwide. It will certainly stay completely anchored at the area for concerning 20-25 years, so it has actually been made to endure also one of the most effective cyclones.

Once functional, the Prelude FLNG center will certainly create a minimum of 5.3 million tonnes (mtpa) per year of fluids: 3.6 mtpa of LNG, 1.3 mtpa of condensate (equal to 35,000 bbl/d) and 0.4 mtpa of melted oil gas (LPG).