Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje Shipyard, South Korea
Cost
US$10−13 billion
Laid down
October 2012
Launched
December 2013
Completed
July 2017
Maiden voyage
July 2017
In service
2018
Identification
IMO number: 9648714
Status
Operational
General characteristics
Type
Floating production storage and offloading
Tonnage
300,000 GT[2]
Displacement
600,000 tonnes[1]
Length
488 m (1,601 ft)
Beam
74 m (243 ft)
Height
105 m (344 ft)
Crew
220-240[1]
Prelude FLNG is a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform owned by Shell plc and built by the Technip–Samsung Consortium (TSC) in South Korea for a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell, KOGAS, and Inpex.[3][4] The hull was launched in December 2013.[5]
It is 488 metres (1,601 ft) long, 74 metres (243 ft) wide, and made with more than 260,000 tonnes of steel.[6] The vessel displaces around 600,000 tonnes when fully loaded, more than five times the displacement of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.[7] It is the world's largest FLNG platform, as well as the largest FLNG facility constructed to date.
^ abSummers, Chris (15 July 2011). "The gas platform that will be the world's biggest 'ship'". BBC News. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
^"Steel Cutting for Prelude FLNG Begins in South Korea". Offshore Energy (Press release). 18 October 2012. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
^"Shell's massive Prelude hull world's biggest-ever floating vessel and first ocean-based LNG plant". Financial Post. Reuters and Associated Press. 3 December 2013. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2013. Shell said Tuesday that the 488-metre (1,600 foot) hull of the structure, known as Prelude was floated out of the dry dock in Geoje, South Korea where she is being built.
^"Shell's record-breaking Prelude takes to the water". BBC News. 4 December 2013. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
^Newnham, Danica (18 October 2012). "Construction of Prelude FLNG begins". Upstream. Archived from the original on 24 November 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
^DeHaemer, Christian (28 July 2011). "The Prelude FLNG Project". Energy & Capital. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
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