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(Arabian oil and gas) -- GE
Oil & Gas has entered into an agreement with Technip to supply two steam
turbine-driven compressors for the Shell Prelude Floating Liquefied Natural Gas
(FLNG) project. The facility, which is to be based offshore Australia, will be
the largest floating offshore facility in the world. Technip and Samsung Heavy
Industries (SHI) formed a consortium (TSC) which Shell has tasked to engineer,
procure, construct and install the Prelude FLNG facility.
The GE compression trains will be vital elements of the liquefaction
process, which cools natural gas to a liquid state. In addition to the supply of
the steam turbines and compressors, the scope of GE’s agreement with Technip
France includes start up and two years of training, operation and spare
parts.
Shell’s FLNG facility will be moored at the Prelude gas field, about 200
kilometers off Western Australia’s Kimberly Coast. Offshore fields such as
Prelude may hold significant quantities of natural gas, but many are at great
distances from land or the nearest pipeline. Tapping into these “stranded” gas
resources has been nearly impossible until now. The Shell FLNG facility
addresses this industry challenge.
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