石油设备网讯 据离岸工程6月19日报道称，荷兰皇家壳牌公司看到了更多的浮式液化天然气项目的机会，但未必像其耗资170亿美元在澳大利亚海域开展的Prelude项目那样，该公司上周在澳大利亚海域完成了首批货物运输，比原计划晚了两年多。
壳牌澳大利亚公司主席Zoe Yujnovich周三表示，由于公司仍在进行该项目的试运行，目前判断Prelude项目是否会在未来被复制还为时过早。Prelude是全球两个浮式液化天然气（FLNG）项目之一。
Yujnovich在瑞士信贷澳大利亚能源会议上表示，“我认为这是浮式概念的一个机会。无论是作为一项为期10年的计划，还是作为另一种风潮，还有待得出结论。”
她说，管道成本、改进FLNG技术以及对油田早期和晚期产量的管理都将成为决定FLNG是否可用于其他天然气开发的因素。
当瑞士信贷分析师Saul Kavonic问及壳牌是否对Prelude气田的天然气储量感到担忧时，Yujnovich回答是“不”，因为壳牌公司已经开始对新油田Crux进行初步设计工作，并正在寻求环境批准，以便从2025年起供应Prelude FLNG项目。
徐蕾 摘译自 离岸工程
原文如下：
Shell Sees More FLNG Opportunities
Royal Dutch Shell sees more opportunities for floating liquefied natural gas projects, but not necessarily like its $17 billion Prelude operation off Australia, which shipped its first cargo last week, over two years behind schedule.
Shell Australia Chair Zoe Yujnovich said on Wednesday that it was too early to tell whether Prelude, one of two floating LNG (FLNG) projects in the world, would be replicated in future, as the company was still commissioning the project.
"I think that there's an opportunity for the floating concept. Whether it be used as a decade-long initiative or whether it's used in alternate fashions is probably something still to be drawn to conclusion," Yujnovich said at the Credit Suisse Australia Energy Conference.
Pipeline costs, improving the FLNG technology and management of early and late-stage output at a field would all be factors in determining whether FLNG might be viable for other gas developments, she said.
Yujnovich replied "no" when Credit Suisse analyst Saul Kavonic asked whether there was concern about reserves in the Prelude gas field, as Shell had already started preliminary design work on a new field, Crux, and was seeking environmental approval for it to supply Prelude FLNG from 2025 onward.
