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Feuer Frei!
07-15-11, 04:17 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/sci_environment/11/shell_lfn_big_pic/img/shell_flng_976_1.jpg

Shell has unveiled plans to build the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform. The 600,000-tonne behemoth - the world's biggest "ship" - will be sited off the coast of Australia. But how will it work?
Deep beneath the world's oceans are huge reservoirs of natural gas. Some are hundreds or thousands of miles from land, or from the nearest pipeline.
Tapping into these "stranded gas" resources has been impossible - until now.
At Samsung Heavy Industries' shipyard on Geoje Island in South Korea, work is about to start on a "ship" that, when finished and fully loaded, will weigh 600,000 tonnes.
That is six times as much as the biggest US aircraft carrier.
By 2017 the vessel should be anchored off the north coast of Australia, where it will be used to harvest natural gas from Shell's Prelude field.
Once the gas is on board, it will be cooled it until it liquefies, and stored in vast tanks at -161C.
Every six or seven days a huge tanker will dock beside the platform and load up enough fuel to heat a city the size of London for a week.
The tankers will then sail to Japan, China, Korea or Thailand to offload their cargo.



http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/54079000/gif/_54079224_shell_flng_304.gif


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


The project is expected to generate 12 billion Australian dollars (£8bn) in tax revenues for the Australian federal government
Ringing their hands too i bet. Will the tax payer see any good out of it? Highly doubtful, given our history.
papa_smurf
07-15-11, 05:34 AM
Guess there building that to save constructing several offshore gas platforms, to save on costs. Wonder how she will manage when the odd storm whips up in that area, will it disengage the well heads and sail off, or sit there and weather the storm:hmmm:
TLAM Strike
07-15-11, 08:06 AM
It shall be my mission in life to get my hands on a submarine (probably from China or some such), sail to the coast of Australia and sink that thing... :D
joea
07-15-11, 08:15 AM
That's no ship it's a space station uhhh I mean an island. :o
Osmium Steele
07-15-11, 11:22 AM
That's no ship it's a space station uhhh I mean an island. :o

I've got a bad feeling about this... http://www.millan.net/minimations/smileys/vader.gif (http://www.millan.net)
Platapus
07-15-11, 11:27 AM
Looks like a pretty good system. I would park a few warships around it for security though.
f4wildweasel
07-15-11, 11:55 AM
Surely I wasn't the only one who started thinking of the best place to land torpedoes on this guy when I first saw it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13709293
Ok, maybe Shell feels it's more of an off-shore oil platform than a ship, but if I were in the area in a U-boat and was at war with the "facilities" country, I'd probably send a salvo towards it...
GoldenRivet
07-15-11, 11:57 AM
one would probably do it.

massive roman candle after that.
Growler
07-15-11, 12:39 PM
I think it's safe to say that the smoking lantern is most definitely OUT on that sucker. Hell, they probably didn't even install one.

Edit: God, can you imagine 600K tons of "ship" full of LNG? That sucker blows up, they'll be looking for its crew on Mars.
Platapus
07-15-11, 12:44 PM
Crikey, now you will get Steve all spun up. :yep:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=185607
danasan
07-15-11, 02:17 PM
in before merging...:D

here is an interesting old one: Seawise Giant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant)
Growler
07-15-11, 02:21 PM
in before merging...:D

here is an interesting old one: Seawise Giant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant)

At 1504 feet overall length, that ship is nearly five times the length (311') of the average US WW2 fleet boat.

I propose that, from this point forward, any further discussion of Seawise Giant will refer to that ship as Sub Skipper Career Maker.
Sailor Steve
07-15-11, 02:25 PM
Crikey, now you will get Steve all spun up. :yep:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=185607
Why me? I'm usually too late to point those out, as in this case. So you point it out, but blame me? :O:

I will say that I never get excited about sinking any real ship. I'd rather serve on one again than send it to the bottom.
Growler
07-15-11, 02:30 PM
I'd rather serve on one again than send it to the bottom.

If there's one "regret" in my life so far, it's that I've never been to sea. Littoral waters, the Chesapeake, deep-sea fishing, whale-watching out of Long Beach, sure. But I definitely feel like I missed something significant by not having done that. And I'm talking real seafaring stuff, not hotels-on-the-water.
Sailor Steve
07-15-11, 02:33 PM
Staring at the horizon and seeing nothing but water in all directions. Flying Fish. Waterspouts (tornadoes at sea). Waves so high the ship tries to bury itself. Long hours of work followed by long hours of boredom. Staring at the same handful of faces for weeks on end.

You didn't miss much.

But I sure do.
:rotfl2: :cry:
Jimbuna
07-15-11, 02:40 PM
Because of its size I reckon it would be the ideal vessel to practice manual targetting on :03:
Webster
07-15-11, 02:55 PM
and all the jobs to build this ship are going to south korea :nope:

the US builds nothing these days
Onkel Neal
07-15-11, 03:01 PM
Surely I wasn't the only one who started thinking of the best place to land torpedoes on this guy when I first saw it.
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13709293)



That would be a career-maker :)
Growler
07-15-11, 05:28 PM
Staring at the horizon and seeing nothing but water in all directions. Flying Fish. Waterspouts (tornadoes at sea). Waves so high the ship tries to bury itself. Long hours of work followed by long hours of boredom. Staring at the same handful of faces for weeks on end.

You didn't miss much.

But I sure do.
:rotfl2: :cry:

The hell I didn't.