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Both Ichthys and Prelude

have now introduced ‘world’s

largest’ floating facilities to

their offshore developments

in Australian waters.

Pictured above, the

INPEX-operated Ichthys

LNG’s Central Processing

Facility (CPF) has been

moored in the Ichthys

Field, 120nm off northern

WA, its home for 40 years.

NamedIchthys Explorerthe

CPF is the world’s largest

semi-submersible platform,

weighing 120,000 tonnes;

the topsides footprint is

130x120m. It’s moored in

approximately 250m waters

by 28 pre-installed chains

weighing more than 25,000t.

Gas will be sent through

an 890km subsea pipeline

to an onshore facility near

Darwin. Condensate arriving

to the CPF will be transferred

to the 336x59m floating

production, storage and

offloading facility (FPSO)

Ichthys Venturer, before

offloading to carriers. The

FPSO can store 1.12 million

barrels of condensate.

Meanwhile, Shell’s Prelude

floating liquefied natural gas

(FLNG) facility has arrived

from South Korea, where it

was built. The project is the

first deployment of Shell’s

FLNG technology, and will

extract and liquefy gas at sea,

ready for export.

At 488m long and 74m

wide, Prelude is the largest

offshore facility ever built

and is located approximately

260nm NNE of Broome.

Shell Australia chairman

Zoe Yujnovich said Prelude

signalled a new era for the

Australian LNG industry,

and Shell had awarded a

majority of its contracts

to Australian contractors,

including Monadelphous

for maintenance and

modification services valued

at $200million.

The Prelude project will

employ 260 local workers

during operations and create

1500 jobs during hook-up

and commissioning. Shell

expects to see cashflow from

the project during 2018.

OFFSHORE RECORDS

Defence has provisionally

accepted delivery of the

Royal Australian Navy’s first

Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD)

Hobart, the first of three

being built and integrated by

the Air Warfare Destroyer

Alliance (Department of

Defence, Raytheon Australia,

ASC, with support from

Navantia).

Hobart (pictured) is

expected to enter service

later this year and has

transited from the yard in

South Australia to Sydney.

AWD Alliance general

manager Paul Evans said

provisional acceptance was

a testament to a decade’s

work by the program’s

Australian shipbuilders and

systems integrators.

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