Where do you find Far lab fixtures?
In a lab deep inside Shell’s Prelude FLNG, the largest offshore floating facility ever built.
Longer than four soccer fields and displacing six times as much water as the largest aircraft carrier, Prelude FLNG is the largest offshore floating facility ever built. Located at the Prelude field, 475km (295 miles) north-north east of Broome, Western Australia. Once in operation, the project will deliver LNG to customers around the world.
The lab planner, Labs 31 [Rotterdam, The Netherlands] had the same directive as for the rest of the ship: make it much smaller than if it were on land. The LNG lab had to be 75% smaller than normal. In addition, there were challenging air exchange requirements, not to mention challenges such as the movement of the ship, hurricanes and meeting the needs for 25 years of continual activity before scheduled ship maintenance. Far lab fixtures, with other lab requirements and design support, were provided by ENLAB International, the Far dealer in The Netherlands.
Far provides the world’s leading line of laboratory plumbing fixtures. Leader in innovation [see many at Achema in June in Frankfurt]. Leader in sustainable fixtures and features, and the only manufacturer with an EPD [Environmental Product Declaration – which means we operate our facility so sustainably we have zero net effect on the environment]. Learn more about Far at: https://www.far-mds.com/
More information about this amazing ship and its construction can be found on the Shell website:
https://www.shell.com/about-us/major-projects/prelude-flng.html
And if you really want to be amazed, watch the videos of construction and moving it! https://www.shell.com/about-us/major-projects/prelude-flng/prelude-flng-video-gallery.html
>600
engineers worked on the facility's design options
>200km (125 miles)
is the distance from the Prelude field to the nearest land
4 soccer fields,
laid end to end, would be shorter than the facility's deck
175 Olympic-sized swimming pools
could hold the same amount of liquid as the facility’s storage tanks
6,700 horsepower
thrusters will be used to position the facility
50 million litres
of cold water will be drawn from the ocean every hour to help cool the natural gas
6 of the largest aircraft carriers
would displace the same amount of water as the facility
93 metres (305 feet)
is the height of the turret that runs through the facility, secured to the seabed by mooring lines
-162° Celsius (-260° Fahrenheit)
is the temperature at which natural gas turns into LNG
1/600
is the factor by which a volume of natural gas shrinks when it is turned into LNG
117% of Hong Kong's annual natural gas demand
could be met by the facility's annual LNG production
20-25 years
is the time the Prelude FLNG facility will stay at the location to develop gas fields