DOF Subsea announced that its chartered-in vessel, ‘Skandi Darwin’, has commenced its long-term IMR contract regarding the Shell Prelude FLNG facility in Australia.
DOF Subsea, in July 2016, announced that it was awarded a five-year IMR contract with Shell Australia, including two two-year options to provide IMR services and a multi-purpose supply vessel to the Prelude FLNG facility.
DOF Subsea now stated that its chartered-in vessel Skandi Darwin commenced the contract on Sunday 26 November 2017.
Prelude is the first deployment of Shell’s FLNG technology, that will see a 488 metre long floating facility extracting and liquefying gas at sea, before it is exported around the globe.
The project is located approximately 475km north-north east of Broome in Western Australia. Prelude FLNG started its journey to Australia from the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje, South Korea, on late June.
The Prelude project will employ 260 local workers on board the facility during operations and create over a 1500 jobs during the hook-up and commissioning phase of the project. Shell expects to see cashflow from the project during 2018.
Shell Australia confirmed on July that its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility has arrived in Australian waters.
