Prelude FLNG: The Largest Offshore Facility Ever Created

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@stevehamilton3181
@stevehamilton3181 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating and well done. How about a episode on megaproject fails (ie: blown budgets, overdue timelines, problem plagued) around the world?
@iWilburnYou
@iWilburnYou 2 жыл бұрын
That's most of the megaprojects he covers anyway 😂
@Scars_House
@Scars_House 2 жыл бұрын
So like a government mega project channel
@justbuckettoast6637
@justbuckettoast6637 2 жыл бұрын
... a Mega Project blaze...!? You absolute mad lad he might actually do it.
@TheLaughingcrow
@TheLaughingcrow 2 жыл бұрын
Like Brexit?
@Code6Bravo
@Code6Bravo 2 жыл бұрын
AKA Tesla. Lol
@J_McPhearsom
@J_McPhearsom 2 жыл бұрын
These facilities boggle the imagination. Once you work their you realize you're like an ant in a metal city from Blade Runner. When up on top of a 200ft tall catalytic cracker or fired heater stack, you look down and see and endless maze a pipes, reactors, and huge machinery, and ask, "how the hell, do we even keep this place running." Its amazing such beasts can actually work, and stay working, once put together, even with thousands of engineers and technicians. For their size and affect on our lives (good and bad) people don't know much about these big unglamorous projects --- More videos like this!!
@ignitionfrn2223
@ignitionfrn2223 2 жыл бұрын
1:20 - Chapter 1 - Supply & demand 3:20 - Chapter 2 - The prelude gas field 4:10 - Chapter 3 - Building the platform 6:50 - Chapter 4 - The launch 8:05 - Chapter 5 - The prelude FLNG 10:00 - Chapter 6 - Operations begins...and stop 11:10 - Chapter 7 - Restart
@thecanadianhat5118
@thecanadianhat5118 2 жыл бұрын
How about a megaprojects on the CANDU nuclear reactor design or the Bruce nuclear power generation site the largest nuclear power plant in the western hemisphere
@jonathanmatthews4774
@jonathanmatthews4774 2 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@badgames5025
@badgames5025 2 жыл бұрын
I live 40 minutes from the bruce power nuclear site and I'd love to see that in a video
@KMCA779
@KMCA779 2 жыл бұрын
Bruce would be great, there's even a few incidents for entertainment.
@megaprojects9649
@megaprojects9649 2 жыл бұрын
Nice idea!
@J_McPhearsom
@J_McPhearsom 2 жыл бұрын
Current Natural Gas prices would beg to differ, Prelude FLNG management getting their $$$$ back! If the recent spike in Gas prices, low supply high demand remains, (very likely) then this huge project will be well worth the cost. Though, I doubt that is a surprise the those that built it. Large Oil and Gas companies are notoriously conservative and risk averse (in protecting return on investment, not environment obviously). They didn't invest this amount of capital and engineering without expecting the markets to turn in their favor after the pandemic, which the industry was prepared for. - former reliability engineer at refineries and LNG
@danielduncan6806
@danielduncan6806 2 жыл бұрын
After the pandemic? When is that supposed to be coming? With cases on all continents, and new cases every single day, it is still very much a pandemic. And it is going tog et worse here in a month or so, as it gets colder out and people move indoors again, where infection spreads much easier. Honestly, it is getting to a point now where all one can do is "hope" it mutates in such a way as to become less infectious, which can happen, but waiting for such a thing to occur is just downright stupid, especially since it just keeps on killing.
@J_McPhearsom
@J_McPhearsom 2 жыл бұрын
​@@danielduncan6806 I mean after the acute market affects of the pandemic and demand returned -Only from energy industry perspective. Obviously covid remains, but our capitalist society wants to act like this is over because $$$, But thats a whole can of worms. I agree with everything you're saying. Many people would rather hope & pray it way rather than actually behave in a way that would help us actually fight covid spread and death. Also, true about this being under construction before the pandemic. That's more of an example of their market forecasts, which before pandemic expected a more gradual increase in demand.
@timothybilsky3023
@timothybilsky3023 2 жыл бұрын
I was thinking this, as long as people who don’t understand economics (or just hate fossil fuels) are in power, there will be plenty a strong market for rugs like this due to perpetually high natural gas/oil prices.
@DeepseaSteve
@DeepseaSteve 2 жыл бұрын
@@J_McPhearsom prelude wasn’t just under construction before the pandemic it was commissioned and working. I was on the field during construction and it was on gas well before anybody had even heard about COVID
@chrissinclair4442
@chrissinclair4442 2 жыл бұрын
Close to China who has been out bidding Europe on LNG. Quicker turn around for China shipping to. I am long $TELL though.
@patrickdurham8393
@patrickdurham8393 2 жыл бұрын
Natural gas prices are expected to skyrocket so the Prelude may have a new lease on life.
@gordonlawrence1448
@gordonlawrence1448 2 жыл бұрын
They already have.
@cornellkirk8946
@cornellkirk8946 11 ай бұрын
It’s because of projects like this why the price has gone up!
@abpsd73
@abpsd73 2 жыл бұрын
An electrical "trip" stopped production. An electrical fault needs to be traced, and components repaired or replaced. Being you're essentially a floating bomb with the majority of the electrical systems sealed or encased, there are procedures and codes that need to be followed, you can't just reset the breaker and hope it's clear like you would at home.
@rosiehawtrey
@rosiehawtrey 2 жыл бұрын
Laughs in Halliburton
@PassportBro121
@PassportBro121 9 ай бұрын
I heard that they couldn't flush toilets due to power outage. People had to shit, then lay toilet paper on the shit. The next person had to shit on top of the paper left behind, then cover with paper for the next person.
@FlintTD
@FlintTD 2 жыл бұрын
2:10 "The use of natural gas stretches back to the late-18th Century, in Britain, where natural gas produced from coal was used..." Two things: - Coal Gas is not Natural Gas. - The ancient Chinese were using natural gas for heating since at least 500 BCE.
@johncassels3475
@johncassels3475 2 жыл бұрын
Despite Simon's composure it is clear he has only a tenuous hold on the subject matter. He gets the main points, but the nuance goes out the window!
@FlintTD
@FlintTD 2 жыл бұрын
Coal Gas is a hydrocarbon gas made from processing solid Coal. It was a popular source of lighting and heat in Britain and the US in the 1800's. It was essentially supplanted in common use by Electricity and Natural Gas.
@00cho
@00cho Жыл бұрын
@@FlintTD Coal gas was primarily carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Town gas could contain added hydrocarbons, such as methane. Coal gas was considered to be 'artificial' and gas from the earth was 'natural'
@SparkBerry
@SparkBerry 2 жыл бұрын
Pioneering Spirit is an absolute colossus and definitely deserves a Megaprojects episode too.
@dewar4397
@dewar4397 2 жыл бұрын
Could also get into the history of it's original name The Pieter Schelte
@marksapollo
@marksapollo 2 жыл бұрын
I've said that before on here, it's bigger then the Prelude even! It's by far the biggest heaviest ship or floating object ever built with a maximum displacement of around 1 million tons!
@HimanshuSingh-pi8bu
@HimanshuSingh-pi8bu 2 жыл бұрын
As an engineer, it was one of the proudest moment to work on this project, designing the topsides modules, turret and also the foundation system. Though a project of this scale might never happen again.
@Shinzon23
@Shinzon23 2 жыл бұрын
Turret? Why would you arm a floating bomb with weaponry?
@ervinm.5065
@ervinm.5065 2 жыл бұрын
Whenever I see this kind of constructions I always wonder how many nuts and bolts and screws are missing becasue some clumsy construction worker lost them and went "ehhhh, didn't need that anyway, looks solid enough"
@davidsharples4677
@davidsharples4677 2 жыл бұрын
I worked on the Turret in Dubai Ship Docks
@FalbertForester
@FalbertForester 2 жыл бұрын
You know, we keep saying things like that '... might never happen again.' And then someone comes up with an idea that requires an even more massive ship. Maybe for mining manganese nodules from the sea floor? Or trenching fiber optic cables from Australia to India?
@tommarquez1980
@tommarquez1980 2 жыл бұрын
Congratulations, amazing result!
@LERobbo
@LERobbo 2 жыл бұрын
I've had the honour of seeing Prelude being built at the Samsung shipyard, Geoje, South-Korea while I was there commissioning the 1500mT crane on the neighboring jack-up vessel m/v "Seajacks Scylla" in 2016 (visible on the right with the legs at 4:55). The ship was already moored (same berth as can be seen at 4:55) and the size simply unimaginable. Took photos of the enormous freeboards, although my camera lens couldn't quite capture it all. Mindblowing, all I can say.
@bessie2275
@bessie2275 Жыл бұрын
I was on Prelude construction and remember you project
@ramons8908
@ramons8908 2 жыл бұрын
Only a small one here in Western Australia, should look into the Gorgon and Wheatstone projects for mega projects on a whole different scale. It's insane when you think about it, we have both a massive energy surplus and a massive energy shortage at the same time, caused mainly by people being stupid when it comes to government. Oh yer, our iron ore mines are even bigger than that too.
@daniellaws4123
@daniellaws4123 Жыл бұрын
Yes but Gorgon and Wheatstone don't float in the Indian Ocean. Having worked at all three, Prelude is something else altogether.
@1234567coolkid
@1234567coolkid 2 жыл бұрын
Great video, so interesting to see these up close, I've seen so many of them from the coast of scotland you dont realise how massive they are.
@SilverNuclear
@SilverNuclear 2 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, I didn't expect the 52 years for natural gas to run out.
@backcountry164
@backcountry164 2 жыл бұрын
Right, and Jimmy Carter told us we'd be out of oil by the 1980's...
@kylebritt1225
@kylebritt1225 2 жыл бұрын
@@backcountry164 You are right the real amount of gas available depends on the price to justify deeper and more varied exploration.
@allangibson2408
@allangibson2408 2 жыл бұрын
@@backcountry164 Jimmy Carter said nothing of the sort. Prices have been rising exponentially since the 1970’s however and actual volume of oil produced has been falling.
@backcountry164
@backcountry164 2 жыл бұрын
@@allangibson2408 "Unless profound changes are made to lower oil consumption, we now believe that early in the 1980s the world will be demanding more oil than it can produce". Not even close...
@JPMadden
@JPMadden 2 жыл бұрын
I forget the exact numbers, but if we burn just 20% or 25% of the oil, gas, and coal in the ground that we've already discovered, we'll hit the 2 degrees Celsius global temperature increase that's predicted to be the tipping point for catastrophic climate change. And yet, the global energy companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually searching for new oil and gas fields. How much more there might be beyond what we know is a moot point, and so is what Jimmy Carter said. (I can imagine someone might want to reply with some version of "we can't stop using fossil fuels completely." Yes, I know, unless you know how to cheaply build solar- or wind-powered commercial airliners.)
@coucamaya
@coucamaya 2 жыл бұрын
We have the option to use CNG cars down here in Trinidad and Tobago. And regular vehicle can be converted to CNG. You can also fill your tank for TT$30 (US$4.50)
@imakedookie
@imakedookie 2 жыл бұрын
how far you get on a tank?
@coucamaya
@coucamaya 2 жыл бұрын
@@imakedookie same as you're regular tank. My ex drives 46 km a day to and from work. She fills up about once every 10 days
@pariahdog6703
@pariahdog6703 2 жыл бұрын
Drydocks world sound like a theme park disney would design to entertain engineers. Question is, will we see this on worst engineering mistakes/
@taitano12
@taitano12 2 жыл бұрын
There's an idea. A functional theme park where engineers can play around with, and contribute to various projects. The ideas don't even have to be serious attempts at making a product, just a self-funded playground where you design and make everything from awesome, but impractical, ships and planes, to bizarre contraptions and gadgets. Think Skunk Works, but for the public. The world's largest Maker Space.
@MosoKaiser
@MosoKaiser 2 жыл бұрын
Worst engineering mistakes... Might be an idea for a whole new channel - Mega Blunders! :D ...and don't you go stealing that name now, Fact Boy! I want a percentage of those sweet, sweet sponsoring bucks. 😁
@timbackman5915
@timbackman5915 2 жыл бұрын
Imagine the inventions that could come out of it! Engineers from all over the world creating freely together.
@carbonstar9091
@carbonstar9091 2 жыл бұрын
Well energy prices have been climbing sharply since this video was made. Shortages being reported in much of the world.
@jaredevildog6343
@jaredevildog6343 2 жыл бұрын
Great video ! Thank you.
@sparkyprojects
@sparkyprojects 2 жыл бұрын
If a breaker trips, you should find out what caused it before resetting In normal environments you might decide to keep resetting until something fails, this is probably not something to try when there's a lot of gas about ;)
@ianmcnaney6528
@ianmcnaney6528 2 жыл бұрын
I knew a guy who drove one of those boxy old '80s Volvo station wagons, which used old school cylindrical buss fuses. He got tired of the fuses blowing over and over, so he just stuck some coins in to bridge the slot. Unbelievably his car caught fire a few weeks later as he was driving it. Who'd have thought that would happen? (He wasn't the most practical guy. Apparently he's a physics bigshot now. Read into that what you will.)
@Reklaimart
@Reklaimart 2 жыл бұрын
I work for Shell Energy in Perth WA and the building I work in manages the ships systems 😊
@jrbatek9427
@jrbatek9427 2 жыл бұрын
So good! I love oil & gas projects. You should highlight some of the massive refineries and petchem plants around the world
@amandajones661
@amandajones661 2 жыл бұрын
Always interesting to learn new things!
@ramrod9556
@ramrod9556 2 жыл бұрын
Facilities like these are mega projects. Much more so than an airplanes development. How about a video on the oilsands projects at Fort McMurray in Alberta Canada.
@gooner72
@gooner72 2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video on an absolutely fascinating subject, it really is a MEGA PROJECT!!!!!!!!!
@Jthomsonhate7
@Jthomsonhate7 2 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how much of a global endeavor this was.
@mokdumoknonsharrall1868
@mokdumoknonsharrall1868 2 жыл бұрын
@Megaprojects: Check your references: I believe that the gas the UK was initially "piping to homes that was made from coal" was called "coal gas" or "town gas" or "water gas", possibly depending on the exact process of manufacture. This is not Natural Gas. The basic process was to burn coal (or wood) in a reduced oxygen environment, often by spraying water onto the burning fuel. The reduction of oxygen caused incomplete combustion, and, instead of producing Carbon-Dioxide (CO2), it produced Carbon-Monoxide (CO). The gas was kept hot and piped to homes in the town where it was burned for light, cooking, and heat. You may recall from primary school that Carbon Monoxide is poisonous, binding to red blood cells and preventing them from absorbing oxygen, causing death after only a few minutes exposure. It was often stored in tanks called gas-o-meters (which are for storage not measuring), but had to remain hot/warm to be a viable fuel source. The introduction of Natural Gas provided an option that was far safer, and easier to transport and store.
@secdup2510
@secdup2510 2 жыл бұрын
Australia has an artificial LNG shortage causing ridiculously high prices because the government allows energy companies to be stupidly greedy and sign massive long term contracts without ensuring that there will be enough L.N.G reserves left for Australian consumers.
@brianwilliams9605
@brianwilliams9605 2 жыл бұрын
Not in WA mate because our government made a law that every LPG/LNG project has to supply 15% of product to the state government. We have more gas than we can use and are telling Eastern State companies because you can't get gas come to WA. We have plenty.
@chrishewitt1165
@chrishewitt1165 2 жыл бұрын
I was working on a offshore support vessel years ago. We could see it on the horizon while at the FPSO we were working. They are all huge but prelude is a monster
@cornellkirk8946
@cornellkirk8946 11 ай бұрын
I dunno how you guys do it on the support vessels! I used to work offshore and would watch the support vessels getting smashed around and people on the deck trying to hook containers up to the rigs cranes n shit! Crazy!
@jah211084
@jah211084 2 жыл бұрын
Great video Simon and team
@dougaltolan3017
@dougaltolan3017 2 жыл бұрын
Just resetting the trip..... ARGHHHHHHH! It is common (bad) practice in the home, it might even be widespread in non technical industries, but in petrochemical installations : if a trip goes, you find out why BEFORE resetting it.
@abpsd73
@abpsd73 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed, even a lot of other industrial processes follow the same procedure. If something trips or ground faults, it's offline until it's diagnosed and repaired. A fault in a petrochemical facility can have devastating results (read: kaboom)
@mayoite160
@mayoite160 2 жыл бұрын
SUGGESTION: Ilyushin IL-2 - The single most produced military aircraft in aviation history - Visionary WWII ground-attack "flying tank" and spiritual predecessor to the A-10 Warthog - Some WWII German nicknames for it: "meat grinder", "butcher", "black death", "slaughterer", "concrete bird" - What Stalin had to say about it: "Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats."
@spookedspooks
@spookedspooks Жыл бұрын
How have I never know about this? This is so cool
@beachboy0505
@beachboy0505 2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video 📹
@ianmcnaney6528
@ianmcnaney6528 2 жыл бұрын
Coal gas isn't natural gas. It's chemically similar in the sense that it's still methane, with some carbon monoxide and other contaminants included as part of the conversion process, but it was called coal gas or town gas. Natural gas is called "natural" gas because it's collected as-is from nature, making it natural.
@agent_meister477
@agent_meister477 2 жыл бұрын
A+ as usual Simon 👍
@charliedbq
@charliedbq 2 жыл бұрын
It's a FOSSIL!
@mikegrazick1795
@mikegrazick1795 2 жыл бұрын
You drilled into some detail!
@maxwright6053
@maxwright6053 2 жыл бұрын
Went there on my holiday to Western Australia! Really cool place.
@jh6031
@jh6031 2 жыл бұрын
Wow! Now that’s truly a Mega Project!
@tanks608
@tanks608 2 жыл бұрын
Only 52 years? We will run outta NG far sooner than oil then
@BiggHogg870
@BiggHogg870 2 жыл бұрын
We really have no clue...over 90% of ocean floors have not been explored.
@Wabeeninc
@Wabeeninc 2 жыл бұрын
Just from the profitable fields, doesn't mean there isn't any just not worth the cost of pumping
@StarScapesOG
@StarScapesOG 2 жыл бұрын
Hey, you know what else you should do a video on? Bagger 293! While it is not as big as this platform, it is the Guinness world record holder for the largest vehicle in the world! Also, you could do a video on the Bingham canyon copper mine as it is the largest mine in the world.
@alaric_
@alaric_ 2 жыл бұрын
11:40 Well, seeing how the oil prices have been going *up* since april 2020, it's not all doom and gloom for big oil companies.
@TimSmyth23
@TimSmyth23 2 жыл бұрын
This is about GAS, not oil, you dimwit.
@carbonstar9091
@carbonstar9091 2 жыл бұрын
@@TimSmyth23 Gas and Coal are way up too.
@J_McPhearsom
@J_McPhearsom 2 жыл бұрын
@@TimSmyth23 Most of all gas extraction and processing is done by large oil companies, since in conventional deposits the gas is literally ontop the oil. To process crude oil alone, it is broken down into many products, like gasses (proprane, butane, etc). Same engineering, facilities. It's why the industry and many of the companies would be referred to as Oil & Gas companies, not an Oil company or Gas company. It's just another line of products from same company. ...you dimwit (They used to think the gas was worthless, just an extreme pressure hazard to vent from well before the oil)
@jaythatguyyouknow5135
@jaythatguyyouknow5135 2 жыл бұрын
Last time I was this early Simon and I shared a hairbrush.
@gtempo4673
@gtempo4673 Жыл бұрын
My brother and I had to walk alongside this thing on the quayside everyday for 6 weeks and up and down the stairs on this ba5tard too whilst it was in the samsung yard back in 2017. What a feat of engineering and very impressive indeed.
@stephenmcdermott4435
@stephenmcdermott4435 2 жыл бұрын
The unprecedented rise in gas prices has come just at the right time coupled with China's rising appetite for energy and LNG, may be Shell had a crystal ball after all. Excellent presentation as usual.
@juliuslehmann1530
@juliuslehmann1530 2 жыл бұрын
Wow I’m so happy I suggested this some time ago... not sure if that’s why he did it but I’d like to think so. A real cool subject
@jamesgrover2005
@jamesgrover2005 2 жыл бұрын
One of the issue as we found in northern Netherlands is you create earthquakes as you remove the gas.
@dannygelbart6827
@dannygelbart6827 2 жыл бұрын
Wish these were longer @Megaprojects
@loupiscanis9449
@loupiscanis9449 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@michaelimbesi2314
@michaelimbesi2314 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. We in the maritime industry do BIG shit. There’s even bigger stuff on the drawing board IIRC. The biggest drydock in the world is in Japan and is just barely short of a kilometer long. So there’s plenty of room to grow.
@rosiehawtrey
@rosiehawtrey 2 жыл бұрын
Should fit a Venator or a Victory class without too much trouble then..
@MM-05
@MM-05 2 жыл бұрын
That lil tune that plays at 3:15 should be made into a song.
@user-dg9pu4pe9d
@user-dg9pu4pe9d 2 жыл бұрын
Here is a suggestion that Simon probably would enjoy. Lake Peigneur's salt mine/ oil drilling disaster An oil drill poke a hole in a salt mine under the lake wreaking havoc. The mine sucked up the lake, a lot of other things, and caused the river to the Gulf of Mexico flow backwards.
@joelmckinney16
@joelmckinney16 2 жыл бұрын
So much of this is new technology, and the market technology for LNG is also in its infancy.
@tanks608
@tanks608 2 жыл бұрын
I mean with only 52 years of supply left they probably won’t have much time to perfect it
@anon5521
@anon5521 2 жыл бұрын
So much of it is old technology too, half the reason it broke for a year haha
@paulus842000
@paulus842000 2 жыл бұрын
That's an insane project 😊
@TheEvilCommenter
@TheEvilCommenter 2 жыл бұрын
Good video 👍
@efrempannell
@efrempannell 2 жыл бұрын
Would love to see a Lego build of this colossus...
@TobyAnderson
@TobyAnderson 2 жыл бұрын
April? Holy cow dude, what is your release schedule?
@douglashaus1820
@douglashaus1820 2 жыл бұрын
International Geophysical Year!
@twstf8905
@twstf8905 2 жыл бұрын
Only 52 years?! Yeah, we're screwed.
@pyr0marc
@pyr0marc 2 жыл бұрын
‘In 2021, oil is well’… I see what you did there! Brain blaze is finally propagating to your other channels!
@aarononeal9830
@aarononeal9830 2 жыл бұрын
Y'all should do a mega project about the war on cancer.
@paulmcmullan9931
@paulmcmullan9931 Жыл бұрын
That floating LNG processing plant was built because it is outside of Australian territorial waters but inside the Australian economic zone. As such Shell does not have to pay royalties to the Western Australian government. This enabled Shell to make massive profits by exploiting Australian resources for free. Shell deliberately planned to process natural gas off Australian soil so they would not have to pay mining royalties.
@tdb7992
@tdb7992 Жыл бұрын
I didn't know this. Sounds correct though!
@alexsmith7801
@alexsmith7801 2 жыл бұрын
Megablaze, Sideblaze, Today I Blazed Out, Top Blazedz, xblzd, Blazed in the Shadows, Geoblazed, Bioblazed. No matter the channel, the Brain Blaze will consume them all.
@arjovenzia
@arjovenzia 2 жыл бұрын
Well put. I think its the only one Fact Boi actually runs himself, the rest are clones. but with each new generation (I dont think they last long), the modified genes are weakening and the true Whistler is coming out. Its only a matter of time before we have BlazeTube.
@bigrob966
@bigrob966 2 жыл бұрын
You have to do the Allseas Pioneering Spirit!!!
@samscale3550
@samscale3550 2 жыл бұрын
how about a video on the sheer size of Samsung as a entire company? I've heard they make all sorts from skyscrapers to tanks to mobiles?
@allangibson2408
@allangibson2408 2 жыл бұрын
Ditto for Hyundai.
@snooze02
@snooze02 2 жыл бұрын
Do a video on the Johan Sverdrup project in the North Sea. 👍💯
@drtauntsalot
@drtauntsalot 2 жыл бұрын
This is not the greatest barge in the world, no! This is just a Prelude!
@cleverusername9369
@cleverusername9369 2 жыл бұрын
And the peculiar thing is this my friends, the barge we saw on that fateful night, It didn't actually look anything like this barge!
@mariusvanc
@mariusvanc 2 жыл бұрын
It's a Honda?
@allangibson2408
@allangibson2408 2 жыл бұрын
Wait til they build the next one and put the runway on the top deck that was proposed for Prelude. (It was going to handle 737’s).
@wadeblankenship3844
@wadeblankenship3844 9 ай бұрын
I am speechless…..only one word really comes to mind…..BOOM !
@ZeeBri
@ZeeBri 2 жыл бұрын
I was literally just looking this up yesterday, wondering if it was operational due to the gas shortage we're in
@mikeburston9427
@mikeburston9427 2 жыл бұрын
Hi Simon and Megaprojects the Prelude shares a field with the Inpex Ichthys facilities, the Inpex facilities seperate the gas and condensate, the condensate in stored onboard an FPSO and the gas is sent by pipeline to Darwin and the onshore LNG facility. Now some mind blowing facts about this entire field. The Prelude is the largest floating man made object, the Inpex Central Processing Facility (CPF) is the largest semi submersible facility built, The Floating Production Storage and Offtake (FPSO) is the largest FPSO built and the sub sea pipeline to Darwin is the longest subsea pipeline of it's type in the world also all three offshore facilities are able to see each other
@mikeburston9427
@mikeburston9427 2 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooG5anp8n9N3hpI
@annconover1277
@annconover1277 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do an episode here or on Sideprojects on the Smithsonian?
@jefferynelson
@jefferynelson 2 жыл бұрын
This needs to be in DCS.
@Dee-0015
@Dee-0015 2 жыл бұрын
Could you please do a video on the CANDU nuclear reactor and or the worlds largest nuclear plant (Bruce Power)
@magicalpencil
@magicalpencil 2 жыл бұрын
They should rent it out for playing airsoft or paintball when it's not busy at sea
@JuicAfur
@JuicAfur 2 жыл бұрын
You should do a mega projects on the highways still being built all over America. It would be a 2 hour video easily
@deathtoy101
@deathtoy101 Жыл бұрын
Titanic might as well be considered a yacht at this point 💀
@DeepseaSteve
@DeepseaSteve 2 жыл бұрын
Wow did I the installation for this and the Inpex floater about 15nm from it. Prelude has been plagued with troubles since its arrival on sight. It only went back on production after an 18 month shutdown to rectify the defects. Inpex has definitely had the better run of the gas from the field. Prulde will make a profit eventually but not as good as first hoped.
@713devereux
@713devereux 2 жыл бұрын
Have they tried unplugging it and plugging it back in, sometimes that works.
@kfgelbart
@kfgelbart 2 жыл бұрын
....Please do the Venus Project...
@bipedalame
@bipedalame 2 жыл бұрын
Sideproject. The Kelvin Scale?
@BlackheartCharlie
@BlackheartCharlie 2 жыл бұрын
5:28 - built to withstand 20 meter high waves... um, doesn't sound like the right number... Cat 5 hurricane will generate waves a LOT bigger than that! Great video - thanks for making it.
@allangibson2408
@allangibson2408 2 жыл бұрын
The highest wave on record was 34m. A 20m wave would be uncommon.
@Lafiel17
@Lafiel17 2 жыл бұрын
Looking down at the Shanghai World Financial Center from the observation deck of the Shanghai Tower at night is something that I will remember to my dying day.
@budgiefriend
@budgiefriend 2 жыл бұрын
If i may ask. What is that poster in the background? My curiosity is piqued.
@danielsgrunge
@danielsgrunge Жыл бұрын
I can't even picture how big that is
@SJRPhotographics
@SJRPhotographics 2 жыл бұрын
07.06 evergreen cargo ship looking tiny next to prelude!
@Nolano386
@Nolano386 2 жыл бұрын
This gave me a thought for a mega project. Deepwater Horizon spill perhaps? I recall that being an enormous undertaking to get it to stop.
@dukedub
@dukedub 2 жыл бұрын
I believe that has a video also on this channel
@RaphaelHebert
@RaphaelHebert 2 жыл бұрын
That "I hear you cry"
@mrpaul5726
@mrpaul5726 2 жыл бұрын
The price of gas now it might actually start paying for itself. That is assuming it can keeps operating long enough to pay back 8 billion.
@riverw1798
@riverw1798 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on the German Horten ho 229
@rose_city-86o51
@rose_city-86o51 2 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry that us Americans don’t use the metric system. Having to mention two different units of measurements, all the damn time, must be annoying. You’re doing so much to cater for just one nation and for that my good sir, you’ll always have me hitting that like button. My hat is off to you, you’re the real mvp. Lmao 🤣 But seriously though, how many F-150s long is this platform? I kid I kid….
@TrainTrackToby
@TrainTrackToby Жыл бұрын
this ship is actually bigger than the seawise giant.
@mcspikesky
@mcspikesky 2 жыл бұрын
On a long enough timeline, everyone watches all the megaprojects
@givemeabreak8784
@givemeabreak8784 2 жыл бұрын
With the gas prices going up , I can see a reason to go ahead. This pieces of engineering are hard to start , but once they start they quickly become masterpieces.
@XykcTepa
@XykcTepa 2 жыл бұрын
You came for the title, but you stayed for the dentist joke! :)
@CJRoss2012
@CJRoss2012 2 жыл бұрын
A-10 warthog. It may not be mega but it is worthy of an episode.
@JPMadden
@JPMadden 2 жыл бұрын
At 3:02, the graphic should read "196 trillion cubic meters."
@viper592
@viper592 2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video, and well put together... But the News I have getting in a State that Produces Gas as a main product.. we are seeing a 180% increase in price.
@graphixkillzzz
@graphixkillzzz 2 жыл бұрын
think about this: make a Prelude FLNG 12 meters longer...then make 6 of them, connected at their sterns to form hexagon spokes...one full kilometer in diameter. the official height is a little over 100 meters, but it sits 75ish meters below the water; build a platform over them, then build up 400 more meters for a total height of 500 meters, and you could literally have a floating island 1 kilometer in diameter, with 5 - 100 meter high livable levels roughly 0.65km square...there would be more than 3 times the livable space than Gibraltar...floating around the oceans. that would be fucking epic af 😎👍
@graphixkillzzz
@graphixkillzzz 2 жыл бұрын
@ConfusionFusion if it maintains that 3/4 ratio below the water, at 500 meters it would be 375 meters below...but the top of the platform would be 125 meters above the water...then you could build some higher towers...oh man...the view 😍🤩🥰
@wayneigoe6722
@wayneigoe6722 2 жыл бұрын
*Enclave flashbacks intensify*
@Mclaren231627
@Mclaren231627 2 жыл бұрын
Has Simon done the history of the wristwatch? Or facts about extradition?
@kirkdurkadurka
@kirkdurkadurka 2 жыл бұрын
Do you own a mclaren
@Mclaren231627
@Mclaren231627 2 жыл бұрын
X-D Ha! No. Ive just always loved the original F1. Ive had this email/account name since I was 16@@kirkdurkadurka
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