Shipping of First LNG Cargo from Prelude is "Imminent" - Royal Dutch Shell

June 4, 2019

Shipping of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo from the long-awaited Prelude floating production project in Australia is "imminent", Royal Dutch Shell said on Tuesday.

Prelude - the world's biggest floating LNG production unit and the biggest maritime vessel ever built - is expected to have an annual LNG production capacity of 3.6 million tonnes.

Photo courtesy of Shell
Photo courtesy of Shell

It will also produce 1.3 million tonnes a year of condensate and 400,000 tonnes a year of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). 

(Reuters, Reporting by Ekaterina Kravtsova; Editing by Jan Harvey)

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