(5) Sea Transportation: Thinking Really Big. Dec 24, 2013.
strategypage.com/htmw/htseamo/articles/20131224.aspx
Quote:
"For a long time the largest ships at sea were warships. But in the last few decades this has changed. As early as 1976 there were 414 meter (1,360 feet) long super tankers displacing over 600,000 tons. The largest warships, since the 1960s, have been American aircraft carriers displacing 100,000 tons. Before that there were some battleships during World War II that displaced over 70,000 tons.
"Now there’s a new type of large ship, the FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) which is a 488 meter (1,601 feet) long LNG (liquid natural gas) facility that takes natural gas in its gaseous state, lowers its temperature until it is a much more compact (by a factor of 600:1) liquid that can be carried to consumers aboard special refrigerated ships. The first FLNG ship displaces over 600,000 tons
Note:
(a) floating liquefied natural gas
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_liquefied_natural_gas
(While no FLNG facilities currently exist, a facility is in development by Royal Dutch Shell,[1] and is due to be completed by around 2017)
There is no need to read teh rest of the Wiki page.
(b) A Revolution in Natural Gas Production. Shell, undated
www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/ ... gas-production.html
("Shell is building the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project * * * The first site to use Shell’s FLNG will be the Prelude gas field, 200 kilometres (around 125 miles) off Australia’s north-west coast") |