Wood secures six-year contract for world鈥檚 largest floating offshore gas facility in Australia from Shell
(WO) 鈥 Wood听has secured a six-year contract to provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for Shell鈥檚 Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) facility in Western Australia.
Ken Gilmartin, CEO at Wood,听said, 鈥淟NG is a key transition fuel as (the) industry balances the need for global energy security with the importance of urgent reduction in carbon emissions. We are delighted to build on our 70-year global relationship with Shell to deliver integrated brownfield engineering solutions for Prelude, the world鈥檚 largest floating offshore gas facility.鈥
鈥淭he contract will draw on our global LNG expertise and underlines our position as a market leader for brownfield engineering across Australia,鈥 he concluded.
According to Shell, the Prelude FLNG facility is an offshore development that will produce natural gas from a remote field approximately 475 km north-north east of Broome in Western Australia.
The Prelude FLNG facility will produce 3.6 MMtpa of LNG, 1.3 MMtpa of condensate and 0.4 MMtpa of LPG. The Prelude FLNG facility is operated by Shell in joint venture with INPEX (17.5%), KOGAS (10%) and OPIC (5%).
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