据今日油价网9月19日报道，壳牌公司今天表示，澳大利亚海岸的Prelude浮式液化天然气生产设施已经恢复生产和出口。

今年年初，该项目停止运营。

Prelude项目的年出口能力为360万吨液化天然气，130万吨凝析油和40万吨液化石油气。

该设施于2018年12月开始生产，一年后从该设施运出了第一批液化天然气。

年初，在欧盟急于在冬季之前储备天然气之际，运营中断加剧了本已困难的全球天然气供应形势。

在正常情况下，将液化天然气从澳大利亚一路运到欧洲没有经济意义，但今年，就连这一选择也被提上了日程。

澳大利亚海上大型项目生产的液化天然气的最大市场是亚洲，但液化天然气货物已被从亚洲目的地转移到欧洲，或被亚洲买家转售到欧洲，因为后者准备为燃料支付溢价。

几年前，澳大利亚的大型项目帮助该国成为液化天然气出口的第一大国。去年，该国还是全球最大的液化天然气出口国，出口总量为8090万吨。今年很可能还会蝉联最大出口国的桂冠。

寿琳玲 编译自 今日油价

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.