$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'S')hell has commissioned the very first Floating Liquified Natural Gas facility. This ship will eliminate the need for installing hundreds of kilometres of pipeline and building jettys and onshore LNG plants.
When the ship is completed it will have decks measuring 488 by 74 metres and fully loaded will weigh 600k tonnes, about six times the size of an aircraft carrier. Despite its massive size its only a quarter the size of an onshore LNG plant.
It will be moored in the Prelude field, 200 kilometres off the coast of Australia, which has trillions of cubic feet of liquid rich gas.
All LPG and LNG production will be done onboard the ship. It will offload onto smaller ships for delivery to world markets.
The FLNG is expected to produce at least 5.3 mtpa of liquids and 3.6 mtpa of LNG.
Its another technological innovation from Shell who revolutionized deep sea drilling in the Parque das Campas field off Brazil and in Perdido Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Re: Another technological first
by prajeshbhat » Thu 01 Sep 2011, 12:53:21
Will someone please explain the rationale behind this. Isn't constructing a pipeline one time cheaper than the repeated to and fro transportation of large volumes of natural gas in a gigantic floating vessels
OK. This is what I read somewhere.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his type of ship/platform will enable the conversion of gas to LNG to occur offshore and take advantage of wells that were impractical to pipe to on-shore facilities.
So I guess the reason is that Natural gas is going to be very very scarce in the future. So nobody is going to bother building permanent pipelines for wells that are only going to produce miniscule quantities of gas. The gas will be stored in vessels and taken only to countries that bid the highest price.
I don't think this is being done with the intention of bringing the price of gas down at all. It's just that the countries are getting desperate for whatever gas is left.
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Re: Another technological first
by vampyregirl » Thu 01 Sep 2011, 12:57:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('prajeshbhat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vampyregirl', 'S')hell has commissioned the very first Floating Liquified Natural Gas facility. This ship will eliminate the need for installing hundreds of kilometres of pipeline and building jettys and onshore LNG plants.
When the ship is completed it will have decks measuring 488 by 74 metres and fully loaded will weigh 600k tonnes, about six times the size of an aircraft carrier. Despite its massive size its only a quarter the size of an onshore LNG plant.
It will be moored in the Prelude field, 200 kilometres off the coast of Australia, which has trillions of cubic feet of liquid rich gas.
All LPG and LNG production will be done onboard the ship. It will offload onto smaller ships for delivery to world markets.
The FLNG is expected to produce at least 5.3 mtpa of liquids and 3.6 mtpa of LNG.
Its another technological innovation from Shell who revolutionized deep sea drilling in the Parque das Campas field off Brazil and in Perdido Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
When the ship is completed it will have decks measuring 488 by 74 metres and fully loaded will weigh 600k tonnes, about six times the size of an aircraft carrier. Despite its massive size its only a quarter the size of an onshore LNG plant.
It will be moored in the Prelude field, 200 kilometres off the coast of Australia, which has trillions of cubic feet of liquid rich gas.
All LPG and LNG production will be done onboard the ship. It will offload onto smaller ships for delivery to world markets.
The FLNG is expected to produce at least 5.3 mtpa of liquids and 3.6 mtpa of LNG.
Its another technological innovation from Shell who revolutionized deep sea drilling in the Parque das Campas field off Brazil and in Perdido Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.
Will someone please explain the rationale behind this. Isn't constructing a pipeline one time cheaper than the repeated to and fro transportation of large volumes of natural gas in a gigantic floating vessels
OK. This is what I read somewhere.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his type of ship/platform will enable the conversion of gas to LNG to occur offshore and take advantage of wells that were impractical to pipe to on-shore facilities.
So I guess the reason is that Natural gas is going to be very very scarce in the future. So nobody is going to bother building permanent pipelines for wells that are only going to produce miniscule quantities of gas. The gas will be stored in vessels and taken only to countries that bid the highest price.
I don't think this is being done with the intention of bringing the price of gas down at all. It's just that the countries are getting desperate for whatever gas is left.
I thought i aready explained that. It eliminates the need for the pipeline AND the need for building jettys AND an onshore LNG plant which would be 4 times the size of this ship. And BTW there is currently a gas glut on the market. Gas is not going to be scarce anytime soon.
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