The largest facility of its kind ever built, Shell’s floating Prelude liquefied natural gas facility arrives at its home off the coast of Western Australia. Photo courtesy of Shell Australia. July 25 (UPI) — The arrival of a floating liquefied natural gas facility off the coast of Australia signals a milestone for the region as an energy hub, Royal Dutch Shell said. The company’s Prelude vessel, its first-ever floating platform for LNG, arrived off the coast of Western Australia, after leaving its South Korean shipyard in late June . Large for a floating facility, it’s one-quarter the size of an equivalent inland plant. With LNG emerging in market share because of its diverse deliverability options, Shell said the Prelude FLNG vessel opens up new doors in new countries. For Australia, the company said the vessel will keep 260 local workers on board and create more than 1,500 jobs during […]