No profit, falling production, inadequate maintenance, a safety plan in limbo and a big clean-up if exploration fails: challenges aplenty at the Canadian company's only offshore facility.
No profit, falling production, inadequate maintenance, a safety plan in limbo and a big clean-up if exploration fails: challenges aplenty at the Canadian company's only offshore facility.
Shell's Prelude floating LNG, already besieged with safety and reliability issues, has produced 2.3 million tonnes of greenhouse gases for one cargo of LNG.
Casual workers taken off Ichthys offshore facilities by Inpex will be paid at least until next week under a standby deal similar to workers from the troubled Prelude LNG vessel.
Designing Shell's Prelude floating LNG project involved shrinking a complex LNG plant and making it safe in cyclonic seas on top of the world's largest offshore facility.
A once-in-a-lifetime migration of LNG production vessels from Korea has begun, with waters off WA the destination for the Ichthys and Prelude projects.
