Interest is growing in exploiting floating liquefied natural gas, with construction now well under way on the world’s largest FLNG facility.
Studies into offshore LNG production have been conducted since the 1970s, although it is only in the last 15 to 20 years that significant research began.
Overcoming the challenge of production of lng in an offshore setting, including wave motion and weather, remain among the porblems that have plagued development of the field so far, but the potential benefits in protecting the environment and cutting pumping costs have sparked renewed interest.
Shell are developing a £7.2billion plant, the Prelude project, which will eventually be moved to off the Australian coast.
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