Domestic gas threat hangs over Shell floating LNG giant

Resources Minister Madeleine King has refused to rule out forcing Shell’s giant Prelude floating LNG venture off the north-west coast to supply the domestic gas market, a move analysts say makes no sense. Making the remote plant 200 kilometres off the Kimberley coast – which includes the world’s largest man-made floating structure and is not connected to a mainland gas pipeline system – liable to the 20 per cent domestic supply requirement in Labor’s proposed gas reservation would significantly add to costs for the project.