Ichthys and Shell Prelude

semi-submersible platform: The world largest semi-submersible platform, weighing 120,000 tonnes, is due to be towed from Korea to be permanently moored about 220 kilometres off the Kimberley coast in early 2016, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It will process oil and gas from the Ichthys field for Japanese energy company Inpex. Map: Broome 6725 Colossal steel structures nearing completion in South Korea loom as some of the biggest opportunities driving economic growth in the West Australian tourist town of Broome, in what is an otherwise tough time. But as big as the Ichthys platform is, it dwarfed by Shell Prelude floating liquefied natural gas project. While Ichthys will pipe gas 900 kilometres undersea to be further processed into LNG in Darwin, Prelude will completely process the gas while moored over the Browse Basin. At almost half a kilometre long, the Prelude floating LNG vessel is over five times the size of the world largest aircraft carrier, and is the biggest floating object ever built. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.