The world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility has taken to open waters for the first time, following 14 months of construction.
Measuring nearly half a kilometre in length and weighing over 200,000 tonnes, Prelude will be the largest facility of its type in the world when it starts operation in 2017.
It will produce natural gas at sea from a Western Australia basin, turn it into liquefied natural gas and then transfer it directly to ships for transport, at an approximate output of 3.6million tonnes of LNG per year.
The overall cost of the project is expected to exceed $7.3billion.
Watch how Shell celebrated Prelude’s maiden voyage below.