Title: Shell Perdido – Katrina Clausing, Perdido umbilicals engineer – from
YouTube
Duration: 2:26 minute
Description:
Katrina Clausing, Shell Umbilical Work Package Engineer talks about her job with Shell.
Shell Perdido – Katrina Clausing, Perdido umbilicals engineer – from YouTube
transcript
[Background music plays]
Upbeat guitar music
[Animated sequence]
Moving Shell oil tanker.
Two men in white hardhats talking.
Splits shots with four with people in each scene.
Splits into multiple pictures with Shell workers, zooms out to many small pictures.
Pans out.
[Text display]
Shell People
[Katrina Clausing]
Shell Umbilical Work Package Engineer
[Katrina Clausing]
My name is Katrina Clausing. My title is Shell Umbilical Work Package Engineer. A typical subsea oil or
gas development has a host platform which could be mired to the seabed or fixed to the seabed and
has one or more subsea wellheads, which are the drilled wells down to the pay zone which has oil or
gas. Those, what we call trees that sit on top of the wells, they need power so the umbilical is the
lifeline between the Perdido spar on the surface and the wells on the seafloor.
[Video footage]
Zooms in to Katrina Clausing in yellow hardhat with her name across the top, wearing sunglasses. Her
name and title appear. Man in white hard hat and Katrina with reels of umbilicals in background. Close
up of Katrina speaking with machinery in background. Katrina speaking face on to camera in front of
yellow machinery working in background. A yellow sign reading RESTRICTED AREA DO NOT ENTER in
background. View of trees that sit on top of the wells that need power. Umbilical cable zooming out,
man in hard hat at controls.
[Katrina Clausing]
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As a lifeline it provides chemicals, hydraulic power and electrical power to those trees down at the
subsea cluster. The umbilical can comprise any number of elements from fiber optics, electrical cable,
high voltage power cable, steel tubes or non-steel tubes. The steel tubes carry hydraulic control fluid or
chemicals, and the power cables are the source of power and conduit for communication to and from
the subsea cluster.
[Video footage]
Extreme close-up of cables. Machinery moving around. Machinery moving up and down. Steel tubes
going around. Zooming out to power cables holding the umbilicals moving around in a circle. Close-up
Katrina in blue overalls with hard hat and clear glasses, one of the umbilicals behind her moving
around.
[Katrina Clausing]
One of the umbilicals is in process behind me on the third of its three passes. This is a largest size for
Perdido. Perdido has four umbilicals for phase one with tubes for up to 13 total umbilicals hanging off
the Perdido spar. We have materials coming for the umbilicals on this project from India, from Sweden,
from the Czech Republic, from France, from England, elsewhere within the United States. It’s
challenging and interesting because we have deeper projects, new materials that need to be
developed in order to meet the needs of those new projects. We still have to keep things economic
and, of course, as they get deeper and further away, it’s more cost so you have to find some ways to
bring the cost down, and we have to engineer or close gaps or develop new equipment, new
components in order to meet the needs.
[Video footage]
Close-up of umbilical reel, zooming out to include second and part of third umbilical.
Shot of the umbilical reels going around. Close-up of the reels with yellow umbilicals going around,
zooms out to show man in white hat and overalls, in front of controls. Katrina with loose hair in front
of yellow machinery moving up and down. Aerial view of machinery going around. Zoom in to orange
claw-shaped machinery. View of ship/rig deck with machinery in foreground and sea in background.
Katrina without hat in front of yellow moving machinery
Illegible white writing on black background.
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