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In the world there are many huge ships. In most cases, they are used to transport various goods. There are even ships for the transportation of entire oil platforms. However, they all seem real crumbs, compared with the ship, which will be discussed further.
Shell is a floating plant.
It should be noted immediately that the ship is not normal. However, this is not a ship. Ships Prelude FLNG - floating plant for the production of liquefied natural gas. On board feed enters directly from the wells goes ibid processing and is transmitted in the prepared form on LNG, which deliver the product to storage or directly to customers.
The plant has a performance index of 5.3 million tons of liquefied gas per year. Total storage capacity in this case is 463,000 cubic meters. Accordingly it was the repository, the largest part of the ship structure, making it so big. Deadweight tonnage (carrying capacity) of the vessel is 600 thousand tons. This indicator can be counted in the six nuclear carriers «George Bush».
Where exactly is sverhsudno was built? We created it on Geoje shipyard, which is located in South Korea. On the water the ship was launched in November 2013, but at that moment Prelude FLNG was still not completed. Until the summer of 2017 on board the ship were working on completion. In this case, it still does not have its own power plant. Prelude is now anchored in the Timor Sea, 200 km from the Australian coast. Here marine plant will operate the next 25 years.
The project has great potential of sea plant. It is worth noting that the first attempt to create such a ship was launched in 1979, but then the initiative is not successful. A new project to its launch is largely due to the company initiating Shell got into a difficult situation. She was allowed to produce gas on the shelves in Australia, but is forbidden to build refineries on the coast. This is a complex set of circumstances, and gave life to the project Prelude.
Supertanker Prelude FNLG - the first signs of revolution in the field of mining of the sea. The ship is able to withstand any storm. If in the coming years, the ship will meet its economic profitability, it soon may be new floating plants. This in turn will open up new fields for humanity in the ocean, where mining has not previously been possible.
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