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Export terminal · Western Australia, Australia

Prelude FLNG Terminal

Prelude FLNG Terminal is an operating LNG export terminal (floating liquefaction (FLNG) facility) in Western Australia, Australia. The tracker lists 1 tracked unit with 3.6 Mtpa operating, the earliest starting in 2019. Owners include Shell, Inpex, KOGAS and 1 other.

Operating

3.6 Mtpa

4.9 bcm/y · 1 unit

Under construction

no units under construction

Proposed

no units proposed

At a glance

Country
Australia
State / province
Western Australia
Region
Not reported
Import / export
Export
Onshore / floating
FLNG
Status (rolled up)
Operating
Trains / phases tracked
1
Earliest start year
2019
Latest start year
2019
Coordinates
13.7867° S, 123.3167° E
GEM terminal ID
T100000130339
GEM wiki page
gem.wiki

Trains and phases

Each row is one unit as tracked by GEM. Ordered by start year, then proposal year.

UnitStatusCapacity (Mtpa)Capacity (bcm/y)StartProposedFIDOwner (as reported)
Not reportedOperating3.64.92019Not reportedShell PLC [67.5%]; INPEX Corp [17.5%]; Korea Gas Corp [10%]; CPC Corporation Taiwan [5%]

Capacity by status

StatusUnitsMtpabcm/y
Operating13.64.9

Owners and operators

Stakes as reported by GEM per unit, merged across units. Percentages are omitted where GEM does not give them.

Operators

Location

Prelude FLNG Terminal at 13.7867° S, 123.3167° E, with 2 tracked gas pipelines passing within 25 km.

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Coordinates
13.7867° S, 123.3167° E
Coordinate accuracy (GEM)
exact
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Connected gas pipelines

Tracked pipelines whose route passes within 25 km of this terminal, or whose name matches it. Proximity is not proof of a physical connection.

PipelineStatusLengthCapacityDistanceMatched by
Crux Gas PipelineProposed160 km5.62 bcm/y0.1 kmroute proximity
Ichthys Gas PipelineOperating889 km16.35 bcm/y11.4 kmroute proximity

Technology and contractors

Firms named on this terminal in our curated supplier list, each backed by a public source on that firm's page.

Shell

Licenses the DMR dual mixed refrigerant process, used at Sakhalin, Prelude and LNG Canada, and the parallel mixed refrigerant PMR process for trains of 6 to 11 Mtpa.

Exposed to chokepoints

Where cargoes from this terminal would normally pass a maritime chokepoint, by destination market.

DestinationChokepoints on the usual routeAlternative route
East AsiaLombok StraitMakassar StraitLarger vessels favour Lombok over the shallower Malacca route.Strait of Malacca

Routing is an editorial model of typical laden voyages, held in a hand-maintained lane table. It is not vessel tracking, and it does not account for diversions, canal draught limits, ice class or seasonal closures. See methodology, or take the machine-readable exposure feed. Links to the Chokepoints site are inactive until its domain is set in the environment.