MYSTERY OVER SUDDEN DIVERSION OF LNG TANKERS BOUND FOR SHELL’S TROUBLED PRELUDE FLNG
Extracts from Reuters article – Two LNG tankers bound for Australia’s Prelude facility divert..
It is not clear why the ships changed their destinations from Prelude…: Shell declined to comment on the matter.
EXTRACTS FROM RELATED SPECULATION BY RETIRED SENIOR SHELL EXPERTS
Your the wiz kid on tanker movements
….seems to me the only logical reason for such diversion of for example the Gaslog Glasgow was there was not a sufficiency of LNG to load on or around the 15 January (the first load was offtaken on 8 January) when to meet the 3.6m tonnes design output it would have been required to load around this time and I think you calculated that to meet the 3.6 mt/a given an average LNG carrier capacity an offload would be expected every circa 7 – 10 days,…