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Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:49 pm
by Jaeger
Shell Building World's Largest Floating Vessel
Geekologie wrote:Shell, a company best known for bending me over at the pump and not giving a shit who sees my exposed ass as they drive by (stop rubbernecking, pervs!), plans to build the world's largest sea vessel, weighing in at over 600,000 metric tons and floating almost 500 meters (~1,600ft). That's almost a 1/3 of a mile, and nearly double the distance I've walked in my entire life (I got a Hoveround for my 1st birthday).
Shell is making good on its promise to build the largest object ever to float on water, announcing Friday it would build the Prelude FLNG Project to harvest offshore natural gas fields. The gargantuan ship will suck up the equivalent of 110,000 barrels of oil per day.
Once it is built, the Prelude will be towed to its station about 300 miles northeast of Broome, Australia, and hooked up to the massive Prelude natural gas field, which Shell discovered in 2007. Shell anticipates production to start in 2017. The facility will tap into about 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, the company said.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't, I dunno, THE CONTINENTS the largest floating sea vessels?! Haha, what do you mean they're connected? Soooooooooo -- lakes aren't just deep holes?
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--Jaeger
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 12:59 pm
by Bigshankhank
OMFG the continents are floating on the ocean?
Big fucking deal, I gotta follow up on an email about making my pen1s larger, that's the only thing that concerns me when discussing the size of stuff.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:04 pm
by DerGolgo
They need a bigger boat...
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:05 pm
by Ames
Is that made out of Lego's?
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:50 pm
by Sisyphus
Just looking at the picture, I have to wonder, how the fuck do you see where you're going?
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:58 pm
by Beemer Dan
Ames wrote:Is that made out of Lego's?
That's exactly what I thought!
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:42 pm
by piccini9
Yeah, that's totally made of Legos.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:03 pm
by WeAintFoundShit
Beemer Dan wrote:Ames wrote:Is that made out of Lego's?
That's exactly what I thought!
Great minds think alike.
Unfortunately, so do ours.
That was my very first thought, as well.
Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 10:32 pm
by GeekGrl
Oh feck, that's what I saw too ...
I love Legos!
wonder how many sets of Legos that takes to build ... oh hell, I'd be happy with the Millennium Falcon Lego set.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:13 am
by MoraleHazard
Sisyphus wrote:Just looking at the picture, I have to wonder, how the fuck do you see where you're going?
I think the article said it's towed to where it's going.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:20 am
by Sisyphus
You're right, I didn't realize what it actually was. DPS all the way!
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 3:43 am
by Rock
Its a huge MODU, was a Ballast control guy once before. won't do it again......