Reuters – RPT-Record-breaking gas ship launched, bigger one planned

It will be the biggest thing ever sent to sea – but as the Prelude FLNG vessel was launched on Tuesday, plans were already under way for something bigger.

With a bow and stern half a kilometre apart, four football pitches would fit on Prelude’s deck were it not for a clutter of kit towering up to 93 metres high that will draw gas from under the sea bed for dispatch to Asia by the boatload. (Read more… http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/04/ship-lng-record-idUSL5N0JJ25I20131204)

 

(English, Article, 2013)

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