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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:26 PM Dec 2013

Worlds' Largest Vessel Built In South Korea For Shell Oil - Larger Planned

"Yes we will move bigger and move into more extreme environments," Bruce Steenson, Shell's general manager of integrated gas programmes and innovation told Reuters last week. "We are designing a larger facility ... That will be the next car off the rails."

Prelude, which analysts says may cost over $12 billion to build and which is due to be producing by 2017, is a potential game changer for the oil and gas industry.

If it is an economic success, gas fields worldwide that are too far out to sea and too small to develop any other way could become viable for LNG production.

Making the first-ever FLNG unit even more of a focus as it takes shape in Samsung Heavy Industries' Geoje shipyard in South Korea, the prototype vessel's most likely first copy model of similar size will now be for the Browse project - another venture for gas off Australia.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/03/ship-lng-record-idUSL5N0JE3HE20131203

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Worlds' Largest Vessel Built In South Korea For Shell Oil - Larger Planned (Original Post) onehandle Dec 2013 OP

I'm pleased as punch that they had their 12 Billion dollar ship built in the USA. BlueJazz Dec 2013 #1

Why or how could they? ..... oldhippie Dec 2013 #3

Ahhh.because I'm an idiot and didn't read the entire post before rushing out to the Dentist appt.? BlueJazz Dec 2013 #5

using sea water as coolant also = raising temperature of the ocean due to heat transfer nt msongs Dec 2013 #2

Yes it will ..... oldhippie Dec 2013 #4

This thing is huge. hunter Dec 2013 #6

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

1. I'm pleased as punch that they had their 12 Billion dollar ship built in the USA.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 01:35 PM

Dec 2013

oldhippie

(3,249 posts)

3. Why or how could they? .....

Reply to BlueJazz (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 02:38 PM

Dec 2013

Royal Dutch Shell is not an American company. Why would they want to build their ship here?

And even if they wanted to, there is no shipyard in the USA capable of building such a rig. Would you expect them to build or expand a shipyard in the USA capable of such? Why, when there is already such a shipyard in Korea?

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

5. Ahhh.because I'm an idiot and didn't read the entire post before rushing out to the Dentist appt.?

Reply to oldhippie (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 03:17 PM

Dec 2013

msongs

(67,395 posts)

2. using sea water as coolant also = raising temperature of the ocean due to heat transfer nt

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 02:19 PM

Dec 2013

oldhippie

(3,249 posts)

4. Yes it will .....

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 02:40 PM

Dec 2013

... and a butterfly's wings will change the earth's climate half a world away.

hunter

(38,310 posts)

6. This thing is huge.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Mon Dec 9, 2013, 03:27 PM

Dec 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13709293

Giant LNG tankers look small beside it.

One way or another our civilization's fossil fuel addiction will end...

...probably by catastrophe.

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