“Hundreds of man-years will go into all this certification alone for Prelude. Only if there is a good level of trust and no fear for retaliation will all this work. But that trust needs to be earned over several years with a stable project group. That is not the case here, everyone is trying to make money on this flagship and then run away as fast as they can.” In July 2009, Shell awarded a consortium of Technip and Samsung Heavy Industries the contract for the design, construction and installation of multiple FLNG facilities over a period of up to 15 years, based upon Shell’s proprietary design. In May 2011, the Board of Royal Dutch Shell plc made the decision to proceed with the Prelude FLNG Project and start construction of its pioneering FLNG facility, to be the largest floating structure ever built. The FLNG facility itself will be 488m long and 74m wide, and when fully loaded will weigh around 600,000 tonnes – roughly six times as much as the largest aircraft carrier. Some 260,000 tonnes of that weight will consist of steel – around five times more than was used to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge. FULL ARTICLE: http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2014/01/10/royal-dutch-shell-prelude-to-disaster/ Capitalism will always benefit from the suffering off others It kills humans and animals alike.
