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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (107311)	8/30/2014 3:22:58 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 218008

Question is how competitive they will be with the floating FLNG facilities developed by the majors on top of NG fields in the sea. shell.com.au Some details 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°F) 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 .. and how fast Europe will build their own receiving terminals. Natural gas is ample around the world the bottleneck is in its mobility if trough pipelines or LNG vessels.