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BY WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

When at plateau production, Prelude FLNG — the world’s largest floating producer of liquefied natural gas, or LNG — will fill one shipborne cargo ev- ery week. As production ramps up from test volumes, there’s the dawning realization of a dramatic shift in LNG markets. Criticized in Australia when gas glut threatened, Prelude FLNG plodded on from decision gate to first gas in December 2018, and now seems the master stroke that’ll ensure

Australia remains atop world LNG sales. Now, more than ever, large-scale

FLNG looks every bit the nation-builder that oil has been.

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