If approved, and ExxonMobil can build the barge as planned, it could be in production by the year 2020, about four years after Royal Dutch Shell commissions its FLNG vessel atop the Prelude gas field, also off the west Australian coast.
Most of the collapses that have taken place over the last 10 years in a study done recently by engineers, about 85 percent of them were from some external cause like a flood that undercuts the pilings or a barge or a ship hitting them.