Prelude Floating LNG Terminal
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Prelude Floating LNG Terminal is an LNG terminal in Western Australia, Australia.
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Location
The terminal is located 475 km northwest of Broome, Western Australia.[1]
Project Details
- Owner:
- Parent: Shell (67.5%), Inpex (17.5%), CPC (5%), Kogas (10%)
- Location: Browse Basin, Western Australia, Australia
- Coordinates: -15.2539252, 123.5381736 (exact)
- Capacity: 3.6 mtpa, 0.52 bcfd
- Status: Operating
- Type: Export
- Start Year: 2018
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
Prelude Floating LNG Terminal is an offshore LNG terminal under development in Western Australia, Australia.[2] It's close neighbor is Inpex-owned Ichthys LNG Terminal.[3]
Prelude is one of the largest floating gas-export vessels to date. It is 1,601 feet long and weighs about 600,000 metric tons.[4]
Construction on Prelude began in late 2012.[4]
The facility had announced legally binding buyer agreements.[5]
As of early 2017 Prelude was still under construction.[5]. In June 2017 Prelude left the yard in South Korea, towed to Australia to be chained to the ocean floor off Australia. The first cargo of fuel is likely by mid-2018.[4]
Reuters reported in October 2017 that Wheatstone LNG Terminal in Western Australia is the sixth out of eight projects in a $200 billion Australian LNG construction boom with two more facilities to be launched. The two remaining are Shell’s Prelude Floating LNG Terminal and Ichthys LNG Terminal owned by Japan's Ichthys.[6]
The terminal began commercial operations in December 2018.[7]
Natural Gas in Australia
As of 2017, Australia is the second largest LNG exporter after Qatar. The country exports almost 44 million tons a year. [8]
Prelude may positioned Australia to overtake Qatar as the world's biggest exporter of the fuel in the coming years.[4]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ PRELUDE FLNG MARINE TERMINAL, Shell Australia, accessed March 2019
- ↑ Prelude Floating LNG Terminal, Wikipedia, accessed April 2017
- ↑ Kate Wild,"NPEX joint venture seeks to dump $30 million of federal environmental projects" ABC News, March 30, 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Robb M. Stewart, "Why Has BC’S LNG Industry Stalled?," Sightline, June 28, 2017.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "2017 World LNG Report" International Gas Union, Accessed June 20, 2017.
- ↑ Sonali Paul, Henning Gloystein, "Chevron starts LNG output at Australia's Wheatstone, first cargo expected in weeks," Reuters, October 8, 2017.
- ↑ Shell kicks off production at Prelude FLNG, Offshore Energy, Dec. 26, 2018
- ↑ Qatar Moves to Ensure LNG Dominance, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, April 17, 2017.
