PETRONAS has launched the hull of its first floating liquefied natural gas (PFLNG 1) facility at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in Okpo, South Korea. The facility, scheduled to be completed in Quarter 4 of 2015, will be the world’s first floating LNG facility in operation.
The launch, which took place on 5 April 2014, saw the 365-metre-long hull – equivalent to three NFL football fields in length – float out at a dock and launched to anchor at a quayside of DSME shipyard where the facility is being constructed. This phase marks another milestone in the development of the facility and signifies the near-completion of hull construction works, less than 10 months since the cutting of the first steel in June 2013.