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The Abadi field development is an authentic frontier gas discovery in the Arafura Sea, in Eastern Indonesia. Exploration and appraisal activities have confirmed significant gas and condensate reserves - enough to justify a stand-alone development of LNG. However, no easy development solutions to monetize such significant gas resources are available, due to its remotely-located deepwater setting. Floating LNG (FLNG) technology was identified as a potential solution to overcome this field development challenge. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the technical feasibility of the FLNG application for Abadi field development, focusing on major technical aspects such as safety, marinization of processes and equipment, reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) along with LNG offloading operation. The results reveal that the conceptual design here satisfies our safety and functional requirements enough to be applicable for Abadi field development and is thus evaluated as technically feasible. INPEX Masela has been selected to develop the Abadi gas field, utilizing FLNG technology, and has proposed a Plan of Development (POD). Although technical and commercial risks still remain, INPEX Masela intends to overcome such challenges to secure the Abadi gas resources.