The Gas Platform that will be the World's Biggest 'Ship' (merged)

Feuer Frei! · 07-15-11, 04:17 AM

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.

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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

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...

joea · 07-15-11, 08:15 AM

That's no ship it's a space station uhhh I mean an island.

Osmium Steele · 07-15-11, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by joea

That's no ship it's a space station uhhh I mean an island.

I've got a bad feeling about this...

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.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=185607

danasan · 07-15-11, 02:17 PM

in before merging...

here is an interesting old one: Seawise Giant

Growler · 07-15-11, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by danasan

in before merging...

here is an interesting old one: 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

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Originally Posted by Platapus

Crikey, now you will get Steve all spun up.

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?

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

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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.

07-15-11, 05:34 AM	#2
papa_smurf Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: High Peak, Derbyshire Posts: 2,851 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	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 __________________

07-15-11, 08:06 AM	#3
TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	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... __________________

07-15-11, 11:27 AM	#6
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,380 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Looks like a pretty good system. I would park a few warships around it for security though. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

07-15-11, 11:55 AM	#7
f4wildweasel Seaman Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 40 Downloads: 48 Uploads: 0	600,000 ton ship 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...

07-15-11, 11:57 AM	#8
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	one would probably do it. massive roman candle after that. __________________

07-15-11, 08:15 AM	#4
joea Silent Hunter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: At periscope depth in Lake Geneva Posts: 3,512 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	That's no ship it's a space station uhhh I mean an island.

07-15-11, 12:39 PM	#9
Growler A long way from the sea Join Date: May 2005 Location: Iowa Posts: 1,913 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ At Fiddler’s Green, where seamen true When here they’ve done their duty The bowl of grog shall still renew And pledge to love and beauty.

07-15-11, 12:44 PM	#10
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,380 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Crikey, now you will get Steve all spun up. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=185607 __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

07-15-11, 02:17 PM	#11
danasan Elite Spam Hunter Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Flensburg / Germany Posts: 1,141 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	in before merging... here is an interesting old one: Seawise Giant __________________ "I invite you to go inside this submergible hole in the water where you can nicely hide from destroyers."

07-15-11, 02:33 PM	#15
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo