Australia
Floating liquefaction Shell has followed up the award of Front End Engineering Design for its generic floating LNG facility to Technip and Samsung in July 2009, by signing two agreements with the same companies specific to its Prelude project offshore northwest Australia. The first covers FEED for Prelude and the second the terms for construction if FID is taken. The project will have a capacity of 3.6 mtpa of LNG, 0.4 mtpa of LPGs and 1.6 mtpa of condensate. The hull on which the processing equipment will be mounted will be able to store 220,000m3 of LNG, 90,000m3 of LPG and 126,000m3 of condensate. In April, Samsung announced that the cost of the hull will be US$1.2 billion. Shell had previously said its first FLNG unit would be deployed to service the Prelude field, in which it has a 100% interest, and which contains an estimated 2-3 Tcf of gas reserves. Shell aims to take FID on Prelude in 2011 with first output scheduled for 2016.
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