Ann: Resource Connect Asia Future Facing Commodities Presentation, page-176

@Sanar5
oil & gas build LNG plants in trains.
Staged Construction helps with a lot of things - design once, replicate many (scale out).

- fab yard mobilization - workforce/materials etc over time not causing potential bottlenecks in supply lines meaning none of the 50ktpa is ready until all is ready - so staged construction allows fab yard to concentrate on the first Seperable portion/line whilst planning for the second, third, fourth etc - i

- logistics - think in terms of staged delivery from fab yard to port to port to site - mobilization of a trucking fleet, labour etc to deliver everything let along staging on site - lay down yards etc. Just in time works pretty well if things are staged like this for a major project.

- construction - again consider skilled labour numbers - a massive workforce number (may be difficult to find) where they are going to be accommodated, fed, where they are coming from (flights, buses), new type of plant etc. Again doing the first one will make the second & subsequent go much better.

- commissioning - where the rubber meets the road - a staged plant (trains) works very well here - I've been on plenty of projects where equipment, materials, is borrowed from train 2 to replace stuff that was broken, not working on train 1. So for a time you have a massive spare parts yard. All the other stuff in terms of labor counts here as well. But in addition to this commissioning are bringing something new at scale to life so again there is a learning curve. And once that experience is under the belt, efficiencies in time & cost will flow through to line 2/stage 2. There is also the consumable supply lines getting established & proven to work. Again I've seen where this can go wrong so getting this side of things bedded down for train 1 is sensible planning.

- Operations - again new to this group, however in this space they will already have ops people working at the pilot plant getting hands on. But learn & potentially make mistakes on a scaled down plant (again this happens) not overwhelming ops with a mega plant where mistakes would also be replicated, sensible.

In a nutshell, staged development generally means across the value chain the worst one is the first one & lessons learned on the first train can be applied on the second & subsequent trains - experience counts & the second & on will be much quicker, more efficient & this means cost & time savings.
I've seen this in practice. So has the team David Dickson has assembled.