据路透社新加坡报道，荷兰皇家壳牌发言人周二对路透社表示，该公司预计其Prelude浮式LNG装置的生产将于今年年底开始。
她在一封电子邮件中告诉路透社记者：“我们将继续推进生产的前期工作，安全和质量是我们的主要关注点，我们希望在年底左右看到产量。”
Prelude项目将加工澳大利亚北部近海生产的天然气并将其作为液化天然气出口，预计每年的液化天然气生产能力为360万吨, 它还将每年生产130万吨凝析油和40万吨液化石油气。
壳牌公司于2011年首次决定推进该项目。经过长时间的拖延，今年早些时候，作为启动前冷却过程的一部分，该公司首次将天然气引入了490米长（1600英尺长）的Prelude浮式液化天然气装置。
Refinitiv Eikon 数据显示，该公司随后在10月初又接收了第二批LNG货物。在LNG项目进入商业运营之前，通常进口货物以冷却其生产线。
壳牌公司拥有Prelude浮式LNG项目67.5%的股份。其余股份由日本Inpex 公司、台湾 CPC公司和韩国天然气公司持有。
詹晓晶摘自路透社
原文如下：
Shell says production at Prelude FLNG to start at end-2018
Royal Dutch Shell expects production at its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) unit to start at the end of the year, a spokeswoman told Reuters “We continue to progress Prelude towards operations, with safety and quality being our main focus ... We expect to see production around the end of the year,” she told Reuters in an emailed statement.
Prelude - which will process natural gas produced offshore northern Australia and export it as LNG - is expected to have an annual LNG production capacity of 3.6 million tonnes. It will also produce 1.3 million tonnes a year of condensate and 400,000 tonnes a year of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
Shell first decided to go ahead with the project in 2011. After long delays, it introduced gas to the 490 meter-long (1,600 ft-long) Prelude FLNG for the first time earlier this year as part of the cooling process before start-up.
It subsequently received a second LNG cargo in early October, Refinitiv Eikon data showed. Before an LNG project goes into commercial operation, a cargo is typically imported to cool down its production train.
Shell owns 67.5 percent of the Prelude FLNG project. Japan’s Inpex Corp, Taiwan’s CPC Corp and Korea Gas Corp hold the rest of the shares.
