MEETING THE EXECUTION CHALLENGES OF SHELL PRELUDE FLNG

摘要

Floating Liquefied Natural Gas (FLNG) has gained wide recognition as one feasible and attractive method for the monetisation of offshore gas fields. It is an exciting technology that will enable the development of gas resources where, for a range of reasons, an onshore development is not viable. FLNG can mean faster, cheaper, more flexible development and deployment strategies. Today, this recognition comes from one outstanding project. In May 2011, Shell started the entire LNG and gas industry in a new direction when it took the Final Investment Decision on Prelude FLNG and gave the Technip-Samsung Consortium, or TSC, Notice to Proceed. Prelude FLNG is a project backed with the industry's best resources. Years of careful planning and front end engineering and design have been the basis for this ground breaking project, but the current progress would not be possible without the vigilance, professionalism and collaboration of all involved during execution of this complex project. The TSC project directorate proposes to look back jointly with Shell project management over the years from notice to proceed in a paper that focuses on solving some of the expected and also the unexpected challenges that are always inevitable in a large, complex and first-of-its-kind project.