Prelude Floating LNG Terminal

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 Gas Field is located in the Browse Basin, northeast of Broome Western Australia, in water depths of approximately 820 feet (250 meters)

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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)
**Drydocks World:** Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the FLNG Turret Mooring System

Suppliers: Shell's Prelude Gas Field and Concerto Gas Field
Customers:
- INPEX will sell to Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. (TEPCO) and Shizuoka Gas Company

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
2012 - Major construction begins on the Prelude FLNG project
2013 - Inpex signs loan agreement with JBIC
2013 - The hull is completed
2019 - First LNG cargo was shipped

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.

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