The carbon conundrum: Digital technologies drive sustainability in LNG production and transmission

Shell’s Prelude FLNG (floating LNG) vessel is the largest floating production, storage and offtake vessel in the world, weighing as much as six aircraft carriers and stretching 1,601 ft. The offshore facility, which is currently anchored hundreds of miles off the coast of Western Australia, produces natural gas, then liquefies it at sea so that there is no need for long pipelines to deliver gas to processing plants onshore. Of much concern to vessels like Prelude FLNG and to the larger LNG industry is a new initiative from the COP26 conference in Glasgow that is significantly increasing pressure on oil and gas to reduce gas emissions for cleaner energy production. Simultaneously, government