Shell’s troubled Prelude LNG venture restarts once more in Australia

The primary liquefied pure gasoline (LNG) tanker to berth at Shell’s (LON:SHEL) Prelude floating LNG (FLNG) venture off Western Australia because it was shut down after a fireplace has began loading, Refinitiv information reveals.

The Methane Becki Anne vessel berthed on the Prelude plant on Jan. 17, Refinitiv ship-tracking information confirmed, reported Reuters.

Gasoline output on the 3.6 million tonne per yr Prelude FLNG facility was suspended in mid-December after a small fireplace. On the time, Shell gave no timeline for when the plant would restart however mentioned the fireplace was a lot much less critical than one which shut Prelude a yr in the past.

Prelude’s floating LNG vessel, the world’s largest, beforehand suffered a four-month shutdown due to an influence failure in December 2021. Manufacturing was disrupted once more in July final yr by a employees strike, with output resuming in September

The outage final month got here simply after Prelude had resumed loading following roughly two months of upkeep. It marked one other setback for the world’s largest floating LNG plant, which has struggled with ongoing technical points because it began in 2019.

Prelude FLNG is a floating liquefied pure gasoline platform constructed by a Technip–Samsung Consortium in South Korea for a three way partnership between Shell, KOGAS, and Inpex.