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TMS Discipline Product Line

PRELUDE
Technology
TURRET MOORING SYSTEMS

The World’s largest floating facility

Australia
Shell Turret Delivery 2015

The Prelude Turret Mooring System is a key component of Shell Australia’s floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG)
facility, which will be deployed at the Prelude gas field off the North West coast of Australia. Moored some 200
kilometres from the nearest land, the Prelude FLNG facility will produce gas from offshore fields and liquefy it
onboard via a cooling process. The Shell Prelude FLNG facility will be the largest floating offshore facility in the
world, measuring 488 metres long and 74 metres wide and weighing close to 600,000 tonnes. The TMS’s overall
dimensions exceed 30 metres in diameter and is almost 100 metres in height. The facility will be able to withstand
the extreme weather conditions experienced in the North West of Australia including a 1 in 10,000 year storm –
which exceeds a category five cyclone.

Provides safety and reliability for the

world’s largest floating offshore facility
Key Facts

Facility Name: Prelude

Type: FLNG
Mooring Type: Internal Turret
Client: Shell
Field: Prelude
Water Depth (m): 250 m
Environment: Harsh environment
No. of Risers: 14 + 6 umbilicals
Mooring arrangement: 16 lines (4 x 4), Suction piles
Mooring legs: Chain, sheathed S-S wire rope
Turret height: 94 m
Swivel stack: 9 units
Stack height: 19 m
LNG : 3.6 MTPA
Capacity in MTPA
(Million Tonnes Per Annum): LPG : 0.4 MTPA
Condensate : 1.3 MTPA
 The Turret Mooring System’s primary function is to keep the Prelude

Prelude TMS: facility on station, and limit excursions to protect its riser-system which
receives gas from the subsea architecture.
At a glance Four groups of four mooring lines secure the Prelude FLNG to anchor
points at water depths of 250 metres which.

The Prelude Turret Mooring System

is designed to withstand category 5
cyclonic conditions

Specifically designed to allow the facility to remain on station for 25 years in extreme weather conditions, the turret
allows the vessel to weathervane around its moorings. SBM’s proprietary turret design consists of five modules – all
of which were delivered to SHI’s Goeje shipyard for integration into the hull.

TURRET, MOORING AND RISERS

Supports the mooring system,

risers and umbilicals
Swivel stack permits fluid
transfer from subsea system to
topsides
Resists loads under the most
extreme weather conditions

TURRET MOORED FLNG

360° weathervaning

The sole intention of this Factsheet is to share general information.

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April 2016

Contact Details
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