By Babs McHugh: 30 June 2017
The largest floating natural gas facility ever built has left Korea bound for waters off the north west of Western Australia.
The Prelude is the first floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) facility commissioned by Royal Dutch Shell, and it means the company will not have to pipe gas onshore for processing.
All extraction, refining, production and offloading of the LNG will be undertaken on the vessel, which will be moored over the Browse Basin, 475 kilometres off the coast of Broome.
The Prelude is 488 metre long, 74 metres wide and took 260,000 tonnes of steel to build, which is five times that used on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
It will produce 3.6 million tonnes per year of LNG and 1.3 m/t of condensate, a hydrocarbon liquid that is present within the gas.
The company opted for a floating facility that can be moved from one gas reservoir to another, enabling them to economically access fields that would otherwise be too difficult and too costly to develop.
The Prelude is being towed to Australian waters and is expected to arrive within the month.
It will be operated by Shell and its joint venture partners INPEX (17.5 per cent) KOGAS (10 per cent) and OPIC (5 per cent).
Production is expected to commence in early 2018.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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