South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has floated a tanker-shaped vessel tagged as the world's largest "floating facility" with a length greater than the height of the Empire State Building.

A Samsung spokeswoman said Thursday that the floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform—named "Prelude"—was set in the water at its southern shipyard in Geoje on November 30.

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