Shell has awarded Wood a six-year contract for its Prelude floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) unit around 475km north-east of Broome off Western Australia’s north coast.
The contract is to provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for Shell’s Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) facility in Western Australia.
The British engineering consultancy firm has worked across energy and materials markets around the world.
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.
The Prelude project is the first deployment of Shell’s FLNG technology, which extracts, liquefies and stores gas at sea before exporting to customers around the world.
The Prelude FLNG facility is 488m long and 74m wide, making it the largest offshore floating facility ever built.
