Exxon Plans World’s Largest FLNG Plant in Australia

摘要

Exxon Mobil is the latest firm to jump on the floating LNG (FLNG) bandwagon by planning to develop the world’s largest FLNG plant from its offshore Scarborough field in Western Australia, potentially trumping Royal Dutch Shell’s rival Prelude project announced in 2011. In a government filing Tuesday, Exxon said it plans to produce 6 million-7 million tons per year of LNG with five trains from Scarborough, with startup slated for 2020-21. This is much bigger in scale than the 3.6 million tons/yr Prelude project, also offshore Western Australia, but due online earlier in 2017 (IOD May23’11).