A sneak peek into the world's largest floating facility 'Prelude'
7 Dec 2013 5:55 PM IST7 Dec 2013 5:55 PM IST
A sneak peek into the world's largest floating facility 'Prelude'
The mammoth floating facility 'Prelude' is out of the dry dock at Samsung’s Heavy Industries’ and is 488-meter long. Said to be the largest ship in the world, Prelude is taller than the Petronas Twin Towers if stood up vertically. Once fully loaded- Prelude would operate in a remote basin around 475 kilometres (295 miles) northeast of Broome, a town in Western Australia, for around 25 years. It is an all-weather facility designed to withstand the most powerful category five cyclone. - AFP
- 74 metres wide and 110 metres high, it is expected to produce 3.6 million tonnes of LNG a year and its storage tanks have a capacity equivalent to approximately 175 Olympic swimming pools. - AFP
- At full load, the ship will weigh 600,000 tonnes and will displace the same amount of water as six of the world's largest aircraft carriers combined. -AFP
- Technically, Prelude can't be called a 'ship' as it is unable to move on it's own. It must be towed. AP/AFP
- Prelude is constructed to process natural gas, off the coast of western Australia. It can process upto 110,000 barrels of oil per day in natural gas and cool it into LNG which it will then transport to markets in Asia. The company says that the
The mammoth floating facility 'Prelude' is out of the dry dock at Samsung’s Heavy Industries’ and is 488-meter long. Said to be the largest ship in the world, Prelude is taller than the Petronas Twin Towers if stood up vertically. Once fully loaded
A sneak peek into the world's largest floating facility 'Prelude'
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