Shell’s massive $12bn plus floating LNG (FLNG) production unit Prelude FLNG has arrived at its planned hook-up location off north-west Australia.

Confirming the 600,000-tonne floater’s arrival today Shell said it “expects to see cashflow from the project during 2018.”

The 488-metre long FLNG unit, which left Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard on 29 June, is located approximately 475km north-north east of Broome in Western Australia.