Four tugs will take 30 days to tow Shell’s huge floating liquefaction unit Prelude FLNG from Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea to its location some 200-kilometres off the northern Australian coast.

In a joint presentation given at the LNG 18 meeting in Perth Shell project director for Prelude FLNG and Technip executive project director Shell FLNG Alain Poincheval said two 210-tonne bollard tugs will be positioned fore and aft to undertake the 3,000-nautical mile voyage.

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