Wood secures six-year contract for world’s largest floating offshore gas facility in Australia from Shell
(WO) – Wood has secured a six-year contract to provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) facility in Western Australia.
Ken Gilmartin, CEO at Wood, said, “LNG 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’s largest floating offshore gas facility.”
“The contract will draw on our global LNG expertise and underlines our position as a market leader for brownfield engineering across Australia,” 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%).
