Staff pulled from Shell’s Prelude LNG vessel: press
Anglo-Dutch major Shell deployed helicopters and vessels to pull staff from its Prelude LNG vessel off Australia after an onboard fire led to repeated power failures, Australian media outlet WAToday reported December 5.
WAToday said about 150 crew members were pulled off the vessel due to continued power outages. That left about 100 members of a skeleton crew behind.
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Shell said December 3 its Prelude LNG unit was sidelined after smoke was seen at an electric unit. The facility turned to backup diesel-fuelled generators in the interim.
Workers onboard were unable to communicate with the outside world and plumbing and air conditioning failed under the backup power system. The onboard fire never left a room housing electrical equipment and Shell said all workers were safe, though operations from Prelude were suspended.
Prelude, located off the coast of Western Australia, has a peak capacity of around 3.6mn mt/year.
Australia’s LNG potential was curbed further by outages at the Gorgon facility on Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia. US major Chevron told the Reuters news service December 3 that one of the three production there was offline due to pipeline repairs.