The Amazing Engineering of the Largest Vessel Ever | Shell's Prelude

The Shell Prelude is the biggest thing constructed by man ever put in the water.
Displacing more than six aircraft carriers, it's hundreds of miles off Australia's coast.
Built in 2017, it's an LNG platform, chained to the seabed with sixteen of the largest chains ever made.
It's been prone to teething troubles and shutdowns since it began. So the question is whether the Prelude is the beginning of a new age
Or a costly failed experiment.
Chapters
00:00 - What's the biggest man-made object on water?
00:54 - What is the size of the Shell Prelude?
01:29 - What is the Shell Prelude?
02:45 - Where does the Shell Prelude operate/ The Concerto Fields
04:00 - How was the shell prelude built?
05:16 - Problems with the Shell Prelude
06:12 - How does the Shell Prelude cope with storms?
07:35 - What does the Shell Prelude use for power
08:15 - How the Shell Prelude exports the gas
09:00 - How does the Shell Prelude move
09:51 - The Future of the Prelude
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[@Machines.In.Action]

The scale and complexity of this vessel are mind-blowing. It’s amazing what human ingenuity can achieve! ☺

[@chrislaarman7532]

Interesting! - For those much younger than me (1956):
When I was to become a ship engineer (sponsored by Shell Tankers NL), the size of "crude carriers" had recently jumped up from around 80,000 tons to just over 200,000 tons - if I remember correctly: due to the 1967 war that closed the Suez Canal. Around 1975, Shell Tankers (France) added two crude carriers of some 540,000 tons. Other ship owners even went closer to 600,000 tons. These huge ones didn't exist long.
Coming to think of it, this second size jump may have accelerated the demise of big-ship building at least in the Netherlands. Just no room...

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

Dang! THAT is a MASSIVE structure and on top of that it is 'mobile' and an industrial processing plant. Good vid.

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

Oh, and expensive.

[@Skidderoperator]

Blackrock & Vanguard have deep pockets.

[@Skidderoperator]

If it goes 💥 insurance company will cease to exist.

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

@@Skidderoperator 🙂

[@ronblack7870]

i think there is a larger ship called pioneering spirit and is used for removing ocean oil platforms and also for pipeline laying in it's off time. it displaces 1,000,000 tons fully loaded

[@damegaKing]

This is by far not the biggest man made object put into the sea, that would be the Gullfaks C plattform with a weight of 870000 tons hand displacement of 1.5 mio

[@melisgurdal6965]

Thank you for great content and editing 🎉🎉

[@Skidderoperator]

Much bigger than a Honda Prelude.

[@jblob5764]

Yea but this prelude makes it own gas 😅

[@Brandon-305]

Truly a Marvel of engineering..👏

[@lovrorb]

Been there, during build in SHI, Korea 😎
It's not it's length that is breathtaking, it is width and especially height, dwarfing everything else in the yard.
Going all the way up to hose handling crane every day was some serious training

[@JohanFasth]

It's truly amazing that mankind even can construct it with all logistics that is needed to be made. How do one even plan for it? Mind boggling.

[@Kriss_L]

Not even close to the biggest ship. The Pioneering Spirit displaces 1 million tons.

[@militarymechanicsie]

Great video, guys.

[@EmirhanSonmezsk-mi4jf]

Great content 🚢🛳

[@dougmoore4326]

The icon class ships weigh 100,000 tons, the other is a cubic space measurement

[@adamking882]

Yeah, they confused displacement (weight) with gross tonnage (volume). While that's a common mistake, I'd expect more from an engineering channel.

[@gouravmisra2317]

Excellent 👌👌

[@Sibl3o]

Has never worked, launched 3 years late and has had a large fire onboard. I was in S Korea in 2013 when the hull was launched.
No gas has made it onboard

[@davidoldboy5425]

Where does it drydock if needed ?(and it will be) and no matter how big nature has a habit of sinking things

[@SevvalSurmeli]

perfect

[@pelinssener]

Great content 👌

[@ross123540]

Most the stuff you said in the last 5 mins was complete bull. Correct words put together in wrong order.

[@adamking882]

When comparing the Icon of the Seas to Titanic, I think you confused displacement (weight) with gross tonnage (volume). While that's a common mistake, I'd expect more from an engineering channel.

[@glike2]

This biggest polluter needs to add CCS or gas to plastics for zero carbon emissions along with the customers

[@ricklee4220]

So the heaviest floating ship not the largest, got it

[@jamiebizness1]

Kraken? Bro. Also industrial acrion? 8 presume you mean a strike in the workforce. Let me guess . The owners didn't want to pay the workers during then downtime .so they redused the work. They found a way to can the workers and hire cheap now work has resumed

[@dougmoore4326]

The vessel does not “bring” storms🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@Aendavenau]

Long tonnes? Are there short ones? Use the metric system :D

[@xx_insert_cool_username_he6876]

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[@bobmahnamahknob]

.....and this is what you came up with?
Congratulations on your amazing feat of skill and knowledge that will surely stand the test of time. Your prize will arrive on the second Tuesday of next week.

[@dancer20617]

Cringe

[@GokberkKorkmaz]

Excellent content detailed and accurate information