據今日油價網9月19日報道，殼牌公司今天表示，澳大利亞海岸的Prelude浮式液化天然氣生產設施已經恢復生產和出口。

今年年初，該項目停止運營。

Prelude項目的年出口能力為360萬噸液化天然氣，130萬噸凝析油和40萬噸液化石油氣。

該設施于2018年12月開始生產，一年后從該設施運出了第一批液化天然氣。

年初，在歐盟急于在冬季之前儲備天然氣之際，運營中斷加劇了本已困難的全球天然氣供應形勢。

在正常情況下，將液化天然氣從澳大利亞一路運到歐洲沒有經濟意義，但今年，就連這一選擇也被提上了日程。

澳大利亞海上大型項目生產的液化天然氣的最大市場是亞洲，但液化天然氣貨物已被從亞洲目的地轉移到歐洲，或被亞洲買家轉售到歐洲，因為后者準備為燃料支付溢價。

幾年前，澳大利亞的大型項目幫助該國成為液化天然氣出口的第一大國。去年，該國還是全球最大的液化天然氣出口國，出口總量為8090萬噸。今年很可能還會蟬聯最大出口國的桂冠。

壽琳玲 編譯自 今日油價

原文如下：

The World's Largest Floating LNG Platform Restarts Production

The Prelude floating LNG production facility off the coast of Australia has resumed production and exports, operator Shell said today.

Operations at the project were halted earlier this year due to a dispute between the company and workers that led to industrial action.

Following weeks of negotiations, the two parties managed to strike a deal last month and end the suspension of operations at the facility.

"The enterprise agreement has now been supported by a majority of employees in a formal vote and is expected to come into effect in early October 2022," Shell said, as quoted by Reuters.

The Prelude project has an export capacity of 3.6 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually, as well as 1.3 million tons of condensate and 400,000 tons of liquefied petroleum gas.

It began production in December 2018 and the first LNG was shipped from the facility a year later.

The operation disruption that the dispute caused earlier this year contributed to an already difficult supply situation in global gas amid the European Union’s rush to stock up on gas ahead of winter.

Under normal circumstances, bringing LNG all the way to Europe from Australia would not make economic sense but this year even this option was on the table.

The biggest market for LNG produced at the mega-projects offshore Australia is Asia but LNG cargos have been diverted from their Asian destinations or resold by their Asian buyers to Europe as the latter was prepared to pay a premium for the fuel.

The mega-projects in Australia helped the country reach the number-one spot in LNG exports a couple of years ago. It was the top exporter last year as well, with a total of 80.9 million tons of LNG exported globally. It is likely to retain the top-exporter crown this year as well.