miktay
05-23-2011, 07:17 AM
Will be a Shell floating gas plant...and supposedly able to withstand a cat 5 hurricane...
It will be the largest floating object in the world - the length of four football pitches and* weighing as much as six aircraft carriers.
Shell today announced plans to build a giant floating gas refinery, named the Prelude, in a project that will cost $10billion.
The ship will allow gas extracted by drilling rigs and platforms far out at sea to be transferred to the ship for processing- removing the need for pipe lines to a refinery on land.*
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/20/article-1389193-0C2A928100000578-932_634x397.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1389193/Shell-builds-floating-oil-refinery-weighs-SIX-times-aircraft-carrier.html
It will be the largest floating object in the world - the length of four football pitches and* weighing as much as six aircraft carriers.
Shell today announced plans to build a giant floating gas refinery, named the Prelude, in a project that will cost $10billion.
The ship will allow gas extracted by drilling rigs and platforms far out at sea to be transferred to the ship for processing- removing the need for pipe lines to a refinery on land.*
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/20/article-1389193-0C2A928100000578-932_634x397.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1389193/Shell-builds-floating-oil-refinery-weighs-SIX-times-aircraft-carrier.html