SEOUL, KOREA - Korea's largest steel maker POSCO said on November 12 that it has supplied all 150,000 tons of thick steel plates to Royal Dutch Shell for its gas field development project in Australia.

 

For the past 14 months, the company has supplied 27 different types of thick plates for the Prelude gas field to build an FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) facility.

 

In 2010, Samsung Heavy Industries won a US$3-billion project to build for Royal Dutch Shell the world's first FLNG facility whose dimension is 468 meters in length, 74 meters in width, and 100 meters in height. The floating tank is capable of holding 450,000 cubic meters of gas, equivalent to three days of supply for Korea and 3.5 million tons a year.

 

This is a second instance for the world's fifth largest steel maker to supply steel material to an energy company following in February this year when it delivered 90,000 tons of thick plates to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in building an FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) unit.