The Largest Ship in The World - Prelude FLNG

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Prelude FLNG is the world's first floating liquefied natural gas platform as well as the largest offshore facility ever constructed. The Prelude is being built by Samsung Heavy Industries and Technip in South Korea for Royal Dutch Shell. She is 488 metres (1,601 ft) long, 74 metres (243 ft) wide, and made with more than 260,000 tonnes of steel. At full load, she will displace more than 600,000 tonnes; more than five times the displacement of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
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[@keithmurray2576]

All of these countries and people from all over coming together to make something so fascinating is incredible.

[@ThomasTheTankEngine22]

when you realize Samsung has a shipyard...

[@ravenhawk6234]

and they also have a military defense weapons department.

[@talkstraight825]

Samsung no. 12 Fortune Global 500, surely they didn't just make smartphone.

[@emp100k]

+troundtree97 Samsung has their hands in everything, appliances, cars, and way more...

[@tubester4567]

+troundtree97 Yah, Samsung is like General Electric, or Hitachi, they make everything

[@Trinavara]

+troundtree97 They have been building ships and heavy equipment long before phones and tablets.

[@zeinfo9346]

Evergreen in the background 11:12: “soon.”

[@v.m.a.d.a]

Haha, wow good catch 😆👍

[@sunny-wn5do]

The container ship stranded on the Suez Canal was built by Japanese shipbuilders. It has nothing to do with Samsung.

[@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080]

But the ship you see in this video is the "Ever Lively" and not the infamous "ever given"

[@felixf4378]

One day I would like to be part of something like this. Even if I were just a low level engineer.

[@Philogamer97]

Me too man... I'm studying aerospace engineering just because I would like to participate to a giant project even with a small contribute, just to say that I have done my part. Sadly my university is shit to say the least and I don't know if I ever will...

[@Kobs.A]

@@Philogamer97 depends on your attachments

[@charinaocon9851]

I do my part in this froject

[@lamaarporter300]

Stay in school cuzz

[@MrJamesRWhite]

I was part of a couple of projects of this type, and it is exhausting, stressful, rewarding, and exciting. One of these involved lifting the heaviest thing ever lifted.

[@raymundlogo3521]

11:31 👀 Prelude will never be as famous as that legend.

[@FrequencyORD]

the dude or the tugboat?

[@SheerluckHolmes]

@@FrequencyORD The Evergreen

[@petrrtep7657]

Haha, I noticed as well.. Famous indeed

[@jeebus2121]

More like 11:18.

[@kamaljeetmahey]

@@jeebus2121 more like 11:38

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

Seeing the smiles on everyone's face, so happy and proud off what they accomplished, it really warmed my heart

[@siddharthpatil8055]

The infamous evergreen in the back 😂

[@youtubasoarus]

A shining example of what we can do if we all work together. 👍

[@clusterguard]

well, these guys know what they are doing. most people criticize the oil companies but they gave us a high quality life. we were lucky we lived in the petroleum era.

[@Gerdoran]

+clusterguard you are pretty dumb

[@karimadrianjan]

well said +clusterguard

[@clusterguard]

Joeckel: everything you have around is due to oil. goback2school.

[@clusterguard]

Joeckel: your namecalling defines you, well. You need a father who'll drag you down to the garage and teach you some manners.

[@Gerdoran]

clusterguard I guess your father dragged you way to many times to the garage and "taught you some manners" because you are making literally no sense (not that i would have expected that from someone named Clusterguard). :)

[@Riccardo_Silva]

Men At Work! Nothing is impossible to such people. Gathering the best in the five continents is the key. If need for a 2 kilometers, one million ton ship should ever arise, they will put it together! And make it work. Utter admiration!

[@kingsleyuyanna3518]

amazing how different companies had to contribute towards the execution of this project

[@sunny-wn5do]

SAMSUNG Galaxy Ship!!! 😮

[@akindudeerada5840]

😂😂😂

[@deathtoy101]

Titanic might as well be considered a yacht at this point 💀

[@KevinP32270]

FREAKING AMAZING!!!!

[@jmtajan1256]

major achievement. Just amazing.

[@jamiesonscott7577]

Amazing skillset and commitment to dedication. Bravo 👍

[@slite2k59]

18million hours that’s like 2000 years

[@Foxyisinhell]

2054.795 to be exact

[@deanthonyforeskin4065]

For what?

[@slite2k59]

@@deanthonyforeskin4065 idk I don’t even remember this

[@almajd.k]

@@deanthonyforeskin4065 design

[@gaetan458]

Teamwork from all over the world and most of all professionally made to the mm. Great work. I wish we "has human being" would work as hard as this to make world peace.

[@jamiek1714]

Amazing. Hopefully this technology will ensure a cheap supply of natural gas for decades.

[@AdamSisko6]

yea sure LOL

[@maledrikjeyrell8527]

Wonderful work :)

[@user-mg6gb2bn9d]

나도 삼중의 일원으로 이 공사에 참여 했다는 것이 뿌듯하네요

[@stuffirecommend]

Shell to wonder of the seas: "you call that a ship? This is a ship".

[@MarcusHelius]

Jeez, imagine this amount of industry and scale building a space ship this big!

[@markusrosso]

The main problems of space ships are fuel efficiency and fuel capacity. This is why they don't build them yet, because thermal engines suck.

[@koryoball]

And Samsung is only the 7th biggest shipbuilder in the world and 3rd in Korea Hyundai ranks 1st in the world and in Korea Daewoo ranks 3rd in the world and second in Korea

[@accelerationquanta5816]

@@markusrosso Nuclear thermal propulsion is enough for cruising around the inner solar system.

[@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080]

12:44 "After 18 Million hours of design and development..." Didnt know that roman imperator Caesar Divi filius Augustus was still alive as development of this thing started.

[@toddsimpson2141]

More than one person worked on this project genius.

[@stephenhawkingsbeautywheel9080]

@@toddsimpson2141 no really? You don't say.

[@ivonneramirez1669]

REALLY AMAZING!

[@TheMetalButcher]

My mind can't wrap itself around how fucking huge that is.

[@hakeemolajuwon189]

+justfakeit888 thats what she said

[@jasonstevenson110]

Half a kilometre long? That says it all, incredible. The Burj Khalifa of the seas.

[@tubester4567]

Very impressive.

[@razybrew6013]

Korea the leading of making FLNG SHIP in the world. Amazing increadible

[@lg5819]

The British taught the South Koreans how to build ships. Never forget that fact. Credit to the Koreans for this mammoth achievement, but it wasn’t just Koreans behind this huge project, it was engineers from all over the globe, Britain playing its part too. Oh by the way, Britain is rebuilding its shipbuilding again. Just look at the Type 26 frigate, the aircraft carriers, The astute nuclear submarines, and the new Dreadnought nuclear submarines all being built in the U.K. the birthplace of shipbuilding. The only reason shipbuilding migrated to South Korea was because it was cheaper to build there. The U.K. never lost the technical ability to build big ships. Just look at our engineering degrees in the U.K. many Koreans and other foreign students travel to the U.K. to study engineering. Our top universities are the worlds finest.

[@drelocs2878]

@@lg5819Same Britains?!that called the Titanic “unsinkable and are also being searched for as we speak on the Titan?

[@lg5819]

@@drelocs2878 So tell me if Britain’s ships were poorly built how did the Royal Navy build an empire, helping the allies to win two world wars, WW1 & WW2. Our fleet of British built ships spanned the entire globe at one time and will again when our new fleet of ships and nuclear subs are eventually built. Our naval ships are world renowned, just look at Britain's Type 26 warship which is expected to be the world's most advanced submarine hunter, the Queen Elizabeth Aircraft Carrier and the Dreadnought Nuclear Powered Submarines, one of the stealthiest subs on the planet. But answering your question, when the titanic was built the builder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough good rivets and riveters and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship, but that is just speculation and hasn’t been proven, when it was poor navigation that ultimately sank the ship when it’s stern hit an iceberg. Every ship has a weak point, even Korean built ships, no ship is invulnerable to tragedies. And when it comes to submersible technologies Britain and France are world leaders in this technology and the Titanic submersible that imploded wasn’t British built, so what you say makes no sense. According to OceanGate Expeditions they claim Boeing, NASA and the University of Washington were involved in designing their submersible. And it’s failures happened because the explorers used off the shelf components and didn’t listen to professional advice about building a submersible to make it more cheaply, and that’s why it imploded. It was nothing to do with the British.

[@keneferdinand9761]

What a true marvel of ingenuity

[@user-wo6bf1hu4s]

Amazing Korea!!

[@Harry-tk7uy]

대단하네요. ^^ very good!!!

[@railysbunnylife]

My Company's Dimensional Control Solution was used for Erection of more than 10 Topside modules and Flare Tower in this Project and as results no clash failure

[@thelonewolfproduction5200]

I am blessed coz I got chance to work on such project...

[@phoenixgaming.8083]

According to you watching and commentings , either you are lying or you served coffee for the workers .

[@sirmeliodas608]

@@phoenixgaming.8083 hahah yeah he did, he also cleaned those portable plastic toilets with napkins.

[@jamiek1714]

Nat gas is one of the cleanest forms of energy.

[@akindudeerada5840]

True as my farts are natural😁

[@v.m.a.d.a]

Yeah but it isn't organic or grass fed

[@GreenEnvy.]

18,000,000 hours of design and development = 2054 years

[@taylorb5681]

1,120,000,000 pounds at full load. My lord.

[@ZenerDragon]

Should read "Largest barge in the world". If it can't run under its own power it's not a ship. I don't care how shiplike the hull looks.

[@akindudeerada5840]

It is a ship's hull tho.

[@hmidasliman6504]

What's wonderful ,is all this starts with writen engineering specifications.

[@victormuhia750]

human beings are such a mystery, amazing engineering.

[@jwolf3114]

That is unreal

[@sucui8925]

We will see very few of these mega engineering facility being made in the future.

[@lucyyhworld97]

This is an amazing feat of engineering! Could we use some clips for a film we're making?

[@allenochi]

Yes you can. No probs

[@ecko_lmtd]

that's a massive ship, still can't believe it can float with that huge amount weight.

[@bigdick3228]

Are you the one in your picture? So pretty (I guess).

[@larryslemp9698]

Wow!! Pretty amazing!! I wonder, does this vessel have a means of propulsion? If not, then I guess it is just a big-ass barge on the water!! A remarkable barge at that..!!

[@akindudeerada5840]

Its not a ship nor is it a barge, this thing is a floating nuke.

[@smallestJustice]

I think I misjudged after this clip, it's still in the yard under work but I can tell it's paramount structure ever built in comparison with other vessels floating by her.

[@heavilyarmedhippie75]

Imagine a prelude class ship made for cargo or even as a cruise ship. What a sight she'd be

[@buffalosolider206]

Sweet

[@poopoopdarkmarksonthefloor6294]

The Flare tower is located aboit 120-150 ft Above Sea level. The crane is 400 ft tall. ( 180 m ) Thats almost the height of Howards Stern's 1221 Ave of the Amerocas Radio Broadcasting Buildning

[@pjchj3599]

My goodness!!!! This barge made me feel human is so small🙏

[@user-gq5wv1nl8g]

Hi

[@allrightjack]

This is globalization ❤

[@fouadbenrezzak8398]

This proves we can build huge spaceships like seen in sci-fi movies We just need a new way of power And to master gravity creation on space

[@iamjason1279]

12:42 “18 million hours” ?? That doesn’t make any sense that’s like 2,000 years

[@waynelaw1793]

Its man hours

[@Fred-yf8fq]

wow...humans are awesome!!

[@xheppelin1827]

Haha, i celebrate new years eve with Didrik Reymert 0:15 every year!

[@olavvalsvik]

This is not a ship but a barge.

[@Jeptheplay]

holy fuck you are stupid.. it's a damn ship and will allways be!

[@freeman1352]

It's a barge simpson

[@korianjunakuvaaja7801]

@@Jeptheplay what is wrong with you

[@Enceos]

A barge is a narrower term. Every barge is a ship.

[@boomerpo8064]

WOW !

[@ademakyol1851]

488 meters long omg

[@sparrow9990]

Its quite the big boi

[@yabbadabbadoo8225]

Rumour has it that sea levels rose 5 inches the day it was floated out.

[@akindudeerada5840]

Nah, I don't think this thing is heavier than the Seawise Giant, the largest ship ever built.

[@stronzer59]

@@akindudeerada5840 the Seawise was only 450 mtrs long. This sucker is 488 mtrs long and 600,000 DWT. (much bigger mass dude)

[@akindudeerada5840]

@@stronzer59 At full load the jahre viking would be nearly 650000 tonnes which is about 50000 tonnes more than that of the max fully loaded weight of the prelude FLNG.

[@staceysmith7352]

Evergreen in the background lol

[@Chris_Shipping]

Okay lets get this straight! PRELUDE IS NOT A SHIP! Its a processing facility so stop comparing it to the Seawise Giant!!

[@AverageAlien]

These oil companies are so greedy that they need to build fucking town sized ships to transport a shit ton of oil in one go.

[@LyJoyRuns]

looks like a floating time bomb

[@akindudeerada5840]

Lol, ikr.😂

[@ballayran9321]

488m length😂. I would pay to see it :D

[@ph11p3540]

This ship is so massive that it likely would get hung up on the seafloor as it traverses the Straits' of Melaka. No way this ship can sail through Suez Canal. Because this is a special purpose ship meant to hang out in one area of the ocean means there is no limits on it's size. Most ships like mega container ships are limited in size so they can still sail up through the Suez Canal or Straights of Melaka. Even the expanded Post Panama Canal can't handle mega sized container or mega tankers

[@McRocket]

Strange as it may sound - it does not look THAT big to me. And yet it is actually HUGE. Maybe it is due to it's blocky-shape which makes it look more like a building than a ship.

[@lucios_7266]

Is that the EVERGREEN at 12:33 🤨🧐🦶

[@ceosealemon]

Korea made 260,000 tonnes tankers when it was lower than the average African wage in 1974.

[@lukesevron5388]

IRONY: The biggest ship in the world was launched by some punter they found at Flannery's bar.😐

[@questionableuncle2498]

To think this thing can pay off the expense it costs to build

[@stephenpalyo5806]

At 11:10 in the background is that the Evergreen ship that got stuck in the Suez??

[@shrabonibabu]

While working for shell technologies in India, we had continued information of this great project and its vastness. Shell is one of the pioneering business group that have a very logical and scientific ability to understand and quantify risk and mitigate them with reliable technology, business ethics and had always been a trendsetor.

[@raguram9343]

Lol they single handedly fucked up a part of Nigeria and killed people who protested against their polluting problems in the area.

[@dankvibezz4296]

Wish the world can come together like this and work as a team on projects for making the earth a cleaner and less polluted environment. I mean if we all come together instead of working against each other we could work together achieve great things and go beyond the stars. No wonder why aliens haven't come to visit us, they're watching from a distance and realize just how unintelligent we really are 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@mrbeltr5833]

Fuck this makes me want to get back into space engineers 💀💀💀💀 the pipe placement is giving me ptsd

[@dj_laundry_list]

That guy knows how to give handshakes that are too long

[@realbartlett8882]

At 11;11, during the launch, across the water there is a ship emblazoned EVERGREEN. Is that the same ship that grounded in the Suez Canal ? The Ever Given does sail from Malaysia, but maybe the other Evergreens do as well. Does anyone know ?

[@xrazerzx470]

Crazy how power hungry we are

[@mertsert8248]

Watch the documantary called ''seven sisters'' The Shell is one of those sisters! They make the earth worst and worst everyday.

[@mbarker1958]

It is not a ship, it is floating storage and will be going nowhere when it’s on station

[@MapleXD2000]

if this ship blocked suez canal society would be doomed

[@SB-lp7yj]

If it would only work… it has an abysmal availability for an LNG plant.

[@entity1566]

One: it's not a ship And two: it's not the biggest one

[@quinceylandreth7564]

They’re only testing to 10,000 psi. Seems they would test to 14,000 considering it’s a 15k rated piece of equipment

[@HAYDER930]

I see evergreen ship in the background

[@sunny-wn5do]

The container ship stranded on the Suez Canal was built by Japanese shipbuilders. It has nothing to do with Samsung.

[@pratikpanchal7988]

wow huge ship haa

[@akindudeerada5840]

Not a ship. Its a floating facility.

[@mushroomcloud1]

Not a ship, It is a barge......Not the same.

[@JuanCarlos-dz7wc]

Made in Korea!

[@arnaldojansencarino5391]

Actually south korea

[@georgerassovsky3733]

Make sure you use paper straws to save the planet ya'll.

[@a-mamh2598]

48 miles?

[@thomasbdl]

I know why you’re watching this video in 2021.

[@edwardr5793]

2:16 what music is that?

[@hanjizoe2648]

Was the Prelude a Bulk ship before this?

[@taylorb5681]

Brandon Lopez built from scratch. So no.

[@johncholmes643]

To think all that will end up in a ship breaking beach in Bangladesh.

[@ThePritesh95]

Anyone else see the evergreen ship?

[@mahfah7911]

Umm.. Ship is a little more then Quarter of a mile long. Let’s just call it’s a town!

[@terryperring104]

in the factory, where do they make the bits, that ...make the bits.... Chicken egg type thing question

[@alfonsosoriano171]

that is bigger than the town where i live. so it doesn't have it's own propulsion? only towed to site?

[@akindudeerada5840]

Yep. It doesn't have its own engines.

[@spencertherren6806]

Good thing we're still pulling natural gas out of the earth. Got to keep the electrical grid on.👌🇺🇲

[@muhluq48]

I wonder, all humans can make a Gundam.

[@thibaud.b.v8467]

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