Hundreds of engineers from across the world have combined their experience and expertise to design the world’s largest floating offshore facility. It will be used to help open up new natural gas fields at sea that are currently considered too costly or difficult to develop.

The design, manufacture and commissioning of the new Prelude facility was carried out by a consortium of Technip and Samsung Heavy Industries under a contract awarded in July 2009.

The contractual scope includes design and construction of several such FLNG facilities over a 15-year period. The Prelude FLNG facility is constructed at the Samsung shipyard in South Korea.