construction of giant gas ships was not only impossible, but an experiment with a
is the first of its kind. The extraction of liquefied gas from the seabed is a
analysis and storage was not known, so it was the construction of such ships
is a special challenge for companies around the world. At the start of work on
this giant project, everyone was looking for one answer, which is that
How they will operate equipment that is similar in size to the existing equipment
on the beach. The length of this ship is three hundred and sixty-five and
meter and it is more than ten storeys high. It took its construction and design
more than ten years and its weight reached one hundred and thirty-two thousand tons,
width of sixty meters, as its cost was estimated at about ten billion Australian
These are the specifications of the largest gas vessel in the world until the year 2007. It
ten, but a year later came out much larger and became the largest facility for
offshore has been built so far as the length of four football fields combined
even longer than the Eiffel Tower, but why is it consumed more per hour and the
from fifty million liters of water? What is the story of these giant ships?
challenges faced by workers during manufacturing? Giant Petronas
The gas processing plant on this ship was divided into twenty-one. The
a huge unit weighing more than two thousand tons each Manufacturing
units, assembled and then placed on the ship's hull and moved
across a heavy transport vehicle with one hundred and twenty-one wheels and no vibration,
was a little while in transit, this would lead to great damage.
unit and the floating crane, which this huge mass and puts it on
ship weighs more than three thousand tons. The placement of these gigantic units
on the ship as much as a challenge for the work team. This is because the
to rotate the ship. Where the side of the ship is filled and then with the
recycled to fill the other side. Due to its high altitude, even if it
needs a perfect balance during the recycling process. One mistake can make
no matter how simple to make the ship lose its balance and sink. But they are
eventually managed to complete the operation successfully. After making an effort
major and minute occurrence of workers and engineers. This challenge will not be
is the only drawback. Where another problem arose, which is gas storage, to be
Liquid in the sea under the hot weather. The solution was through the design of
a huge reservoir inside the ship's hull. Which would be the first of a kind who
terms of size and specifications. The Prelude's ship- grade natural gas will store
minus twenty-seven Celsius. The tank is twenty-seven in height in
meter. It can hold more than twenty-two thousand cubic meters
from liquid gas. Which is equivalent to about the capacity of nine swimming pools of
approved in the Olympic Games. Another problem arose in the tank. It is a
that when it was partially filled at sea, the sloping that occurred was
with a force due to the huge amount that may lead to the breaking of the tank and the leakage of
what could cause the ship's hull to collapse. The solution was to divide the tank so
into two parallel rows. And each row contains four tanks to reduce
force of churn. And also in order to reduce the risks in the event of any
gas leak. The ship's task will be to extract the gas from
be processed at sea. And then pump it from the bottom of the sea. To the podium
gas reserves are then cooled. It represented offshore gas fields, its
those located far offshore, about two-thirds of the floating
located in the world. The extraction of gas from it by means of
is very difficult. But that all changed now with this
Giant sea city. Which was built Daewoo shipyard
in South Korea in the year two thousand and twelve. Which is the third
largest basin in South Korea after Hyundai and Samsung. And he called it
Petronas one or Bevlang Sato. To become Petronas,
Malaysian national oil company. The first global energy company to produce gas
and exporting it after it was produced from a floating production unit.
The ship began operating from a field in Malaysia in December 2000
sixteen and carried its first shipment in April two thousand and seventeenth is considered
company that extracts peaceful gas through floating vessels, the most
sustainable and economical than traditional solutions. The production capacity is the
Petronas has one million five hundred thousand tons annually of natural gas
and was operating at a water depth of 1,300 metres. Giant
Petronas was not the only one working on the manufacture of the LNG ship
floating. So it soon lost the title of the largest ship in the world.
but it was the fastest company, outperforming competitors such as Royal,
Deutsche and Japan's Inpex. Both projects have cost the
The cost of delays. Two years after the launch of Petronas, it launched
the Royal Dutch company, the giant Belloud is now stationed on a gas field off the
the north coast of Western Australia. The construction of its massive structure has generally begun and it
Two thousand and twelve are produced by Samsung Heavy Industries in
South Korea. before being withdrawn to Australia.
today enough natural gas to power a city the size of Hong Kong.
a length of four hundred and eighty-eight meters. That is, longer than four
football fields. The width of seventy-four meters and made of more than
from two hundred and sixty thousand tons of steel to become the largest facility,
sized swimming pools ever built. The ship contains storage tanks of
that would fill one hundred seventy-five nautical-
Olympic gas. It has six thousand and seven hundred thruster engines and consumes
50 million liters of water per hour to cool natural gas
cost of the ship to more than twelve billion dollars, which will remain
in the same field for up to twenty-five
year before it was withdrawn to another offshore field. In addition to Royal Dutchchill, there is the
by the Japanese company Impex. The volume of investments of the two companies for liquefied gas to
In Australia, to reach more than one hundred and eighty billion dollars a year
two thousand and seventeen. The ship belonging to Impex had traveled to the Messal
dollars in the year 2000. Eighteen the project cost Impex more than
thirty-seven billion dollars, and Impex is placing an equal bet,
in both directions? Seventeen Faresa own five percent of the issue, the
as well as sixty-two sorters. Two percent of the gas industry is
Liquefied natural gas and extracting it from the sea hit the traditional gas market for a
of the well-known traditional supplies. Will we witness a major change
list of the most gas-exporting countries in the world? Tell us what you think
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