“FLNG is a cost effective and very flexible option," said Maarten Wetselaar, Shell’s executive vice president of integrated gas in an interview on the sidelines of the LNG 17 conference in Houston. "It has a future.”
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell pioneered FLNG in Australia at the Prelude liquefaction project. And while the concept is still unproven in deep-water natural gas production, Wetselaar is among those who believe the industry can benefit from deploying FLNG facilities offshore, potentially reducing the time needed to develop discoveries in areas that may lack the processing facilities to handle the gas.
