Title: KRIV
Duration: 21:52 minutes
KRIV Film Transcript
[Bakcground music]
Slow piano music.
[Video footage]
News broadcast. Female newsreader seated in front of a satellite weather diagram, showing
movement of large red areas indicating a hurricane. Small screen in top-right corner shows an image of
hurricane damage – trees bent and fallen.
[Newsreader]
“Katrina tonight is now a Category 2 hurricane, with sustained winds...”
[Text displays]
KATRINA
[Video footage]
A road lined with trees bent over from the wind. Headlights of a few cars just visible through the heavy
rain. Loud rain with thunder rumbling in background.
[Unidentified woman]
“I really didn’t think it was any more than a typical hurricane.”
[Video footage]
Wave of water flooding over a grass verge. Debris can be seen floating in the water, trees bending over
in background.
[Weathergirl]
“We’ve always talked about that nightmare scenario, what could happen if this hits New Orleans.”
[Video footage]
Weathergirl in front of map labelled, “Tropics”. Summary of Hurricane Katrina in the top-right corner
with speed and direction of winds. Arrows show path of the storm as it heads inland from the sea, with
possible times that it would hit land.
[Leslie]
“We evacuated everybody that we needed to take with us and went to Houston.”
[Video footage]
Large motorway at night. Lots of cars seen going in one direction, presumably heading out of the city.
Other side of road leading into the city almost deserted.
Another busy road at night.
[Newsreader]
“Now we’re going to take you to I-10, and you can see the gridlock right there as people make their
way…” [fades out].
[Video footage]
CNN Newsreader. Headline reads, “Developing story. Hurricane Katrina.”
News footage. Aerial shot of gridlocked motorway at night.
[Fred]
“I remember hearing a news report on the radio as we were stuck in gridlocked traffic and they were
calling for volunteers who had experience dealing with cadavers and I just remember thinking, oh
wow, this is different.”
[Video footage]
Another gridlocked road at night. Cars moving slowly. Another shot of a road gridlocked in one
direction, other direction almost empty.
[Narrator]
“Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in US history. Taking more than 1,800 lives and devastating
huge swathes of the Gulf Coast – Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana – all in Katrina’s crosshairs.
But long before this monstrous storm makes landfall on the Mississippi-Louisiana border, her swirling
winds and powerful punch take aim at people and assets in the Gulf of Mexico – deepwater oil
platforms, hundreds of miles offshore.”
[Video footage]
A tree getting battered by wind. Traffic lights and a person can just be seen in background, through the
rain.
Floodwater, lots of debris floating.
Heavy rain and wind.
Newspaper front page. Headline, “Katrina takes aim.”
Map of the Gulf Coast of USA. Sped-up footage of cloud formations. Swirling winds can be seen coming
in from Gulf and hitting southern USA.
Oil rig at sea. Shots from various angles.
[Text displays]
After the Storm
Deepwater’s Journey
[Graphic]
Silhouette of an oil rig, water flooding beneath.
[Graphic]
Calendar showing August 29, 2005. Dates flick backwards and stops at 22.
Interview with Frank Glaviano
[Frank]
“Let me take you back about a week before Katrina because that’s when our planning for the hurricane
really began.”
[Narrator]
“At the time, Frank Glaviano is Shell’s vice-president of production for the Americas. He gathers his
team to begin the process of getting more than 1,500 employees and contractors to safety, executing
the evacuation plan the company has been practising for ten years.”
[Video footage]
Photo of Frank in an office.
On an oil rig at sea, walking on balcony that runs along the edge of the rig. The ocean can be seen to
the right. People in overalls walking in front.
People in hardhats having a discussion, pointing at things, looking up.
Man with harness on being hoisted up part of the rig.
People pointing at a large pipe, discussing something.
Aerial shot of rig.
[Graphic]
Calendar. Date flips forward to August 25, 2005.
[Narrator]
“Thursday, August 25th 2005. Katrina gathers strength and changes course.”
[Video footage]
Female newsreader seated in front of a weather pattern diagram, showing movement of large red
areas indicating a hurricane. Small screen in top-right corner shows an image of hurricane damage –
trees bent and fallen – with the caption, “Katrina’s wrath.”
[Newsreader]
“This killer storm is strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico tonight…”
[Narrator]
“Over the next two days heightened alert all along the Gulf Coast as Katrina explodes into a category 5
hurricane.”
[Video footage]
Heavy rain and wind, signposts falling down, debris in road.
Signpost being blown about in wind.
Heavy wind and rain – debris flying through air. Signs from shopfronts being ripped off.
[Graphic]
Calendar showing August 25 2005, flicks forward to August 27.
Interview with Tom Broom
[Tom Broom]
[Unclear]
[Tom]
“I received a call on Saturday from our incident commander stating that he had made the decision
from One Shell Square in New Orleans out to Robert.”
[Narrator]
“Tom Broom’s team is at Shell Robert Training Centre, more than 50 miles north-west of New Orleans.
That’s where those on the front lines of oil and gas operations receive their training. Meanwhile, Shell
and fellow oil companies continue offshore evacuations in a race against time.”
[Video footage]
Outside Robert Training Centre. Small building in countryside area.
Helicopter simulator next to water.
People undertaking training in swimming pool. Two people strapped into seats in a cage as it plunges
underwater and spins.
Satellite picture showing very large swirl of clouds.
[Frank]
“By two o’clock on Saturday afternoon before Katrina I had confirmation that all of our employees and
contractors had been evacuated from the platforms, all of the wells were secure, it was in a safe
manner and now it’s time to wait and see where does the storm strike exactly and what, if any, will be
the damage.”
[Background music]
Ticking clock.
Music gets faster. More dramatic.
[Narrator]
“Shell employee Leslie Bouie and her family are hunkered down in Houston. That’s where Cathy and
Marc McRae and their children take refuge as well. And Fred Palmer takes a shorter evacuation route
to neighbouring Baton Rouge. At Robert, about 30 people, ages two to 92, are huddled together.
Members of the incident command team and their families dig in for a long night.”
[Video footage]
Leslie at her desk, doing paperwork. Outside of a large house. Two people standing on balcony. Fred
walking down stairs. Fred in his office, working at a computer.
Outside shot of the Robert Training Centre, sun going down in background.
[Graphic]
Calendar showing August 27 2005. Flicks forward to 29.
Interview with Fred Palmer
[Fred Palmer]
[Unclear]
[Fred]
On August 29th we woke up in Baton Rouge and for the most part New Orleans had dodged another
bullet.
[Narrator]
“Many believed that, and then reality begins to sink in.”
[Video footage]
Two cars submerged in flood water up to the window level. Water flows quickly around them.
Firemen in small speedboat trying to turn boat around against the strong current. Trees bent over from
the wind in the foreground.
Interview with Ken Jones
[Ken]
“As we got to Canal Street we started noticing water coming up.”
[Narrator]
“Ken Jones, former WDSU TV reporter.”
[Video footage]
Ken walking down steps of Mercedes-Benz Superdrome.
[Ken]
“We didn’t know where it was coming from.”
[Narrator]
“It is coming from breached levees and flood walls. Some 50 catastrophic failures.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of breach, water flooding in through large hole.
[Ken]
“We saw children on the side of the road actually carrying a lot of their belongings in sheets and they
were banging on the truck, Mister, take me with you, and of course we couldn’t because there were so
many people.”
[Video footage]
Children waving for help from the porches of their houses.
People wading through water up to their knees, carrying large bin bags.
Petrol station with floodwater all around. Large truck drives through water in front of camera. Cars
submerged in water.
[Narrator]
“80% of New Orleans is soon under water.”
[Ken]
“At that point it’s a story of survival. The Convention Centre, the Superdome, places along the I-10,
you’re stranded out here without water, without food and at that point it becomes a dire situation.
People start dying.”
[Video footage]
People wading through water, pushing a person in a plastic box.
Lots of people running across a road towards a large building.
People carrying bags.
Person stranded on top of a car submerged in floodwater.
Another stranded person sitting on a roof.
Man trying to rescue another man from the window of a car. Floodwater surging around them.
Child being hoisted up in a rescue basket, presumably by a helicopter that is out of shot.
[Narrator]
“In the wake of Katrina, Frank Glaviano’s weekly newsletter to Shell employees is unlike any he’s ever
written.”
[Frank – reading from the letter]
“I’ve experienced many hurricanes in my life and know how to deal with them, or so I thought. The
death toll may never really be known but most estimates put it in the thousands. Human suffering is
everywhere.”
[Video footage]
Panning over a stack of letters. Camera focuses on various passages as Frank reads.
[Narrator]
“Heartbreak and uncertainty are the themes in every Katrina story, and the search for a silver lining.”
[Frank]
“For me, all I can do is think about the positive aspects and to once again be reminded what my knees
are for. We are Shell. One company. One family in crisis. We are people with great resolve and
tremendous determination. We are people with beating hearts and have and will continue to reach out
and help others.”
[Video footage]
Frank gets emotional as he reads letter.
[Frank]
“Well, you know, it was such a unique time for all of us to experience this. To be in the middle of the
disaster that you’re having to deal with and fix is what made it so different.”
[Narrator]
And so very challenging, first on a human level, then taking care of business.
Interview with Leslie Bouie
[Leslie Bouie]
[Unclear]
[Leslie]
“They sent out an email and all that email said is, we want to know where you are, we want to know
that you’re safe, dial in to this number.”
[Tom]
“Sitting there, taking the time to call in, yes, we’re okay, and just being touched by this voice on the
other end that just, how can we help you?”
[Narrator]
“Despite the staggering death toll, Shell accounts for all its personnel and their families. One Shell
Square weathers the storm relatively well but downtown New Orleans is uninhabitable and no one
knows for how long. That reality transforms Robert Training Centre into Camp Robert, temporary
home to some 400 displaced Shell employees and their families.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of flooded streets.
Signpost just visible above the floodwater.
Lorries driving down flooded streets.
People wading through water in city street.
The remains of a shopfront, floodwater still very high.
A person handing out supplies.
Aerial shot of Robert Training Centre. A few low rise buildings with a small car park, surrounded by
trees and lawn.
Photo of Camp Robert. Crowd of a few hundred people standing outside of a warehouse, American flag
on flagpole in background. Camera zooms in on the photo.
[Tom]
“We had Shell employees arrive without food, without water, without ice, without clean clothes.”
[Narrator]
“Shell provides these necessities and more, purchasing homes and apartments for employees to rent
and offering no-interest loans.”
[Video footage]
Row of houses with cars parked in front. Suburban houses, row of garages.
[Leslie]
“They took care of transportation, they took care of salaries, they took care of medical expenses.”
[Narrator]
“And they offer a shoulder and an ear.”
[Tom]
“My most important role during those first few weeks when people were checking in to Robert was to
listen.”
[Video footage]
People talking on phones, working at computers while on phone.
[Narrator]
“As the healing begins so does the work of getting back to business. at the top of the list, making a
critical decision about Shell’s future.”
[Video footage]
Looking up at a skyscraper.
[Fred]
“Leave it all in New Orleans. Split the baby - some stay in New Orleans, some come to Houston. Or take
it all to Houston.”
[Frank]
“We ultimately decided as a team that New Orleans was our partner and you don’t abandon a partner
after 50 years.”
[Narrator]
“The coming home campaign is born. As many around the nation wonder out loud why any person
much less a corporation would want to stay in the storm ravaged city.”
[Video footage]
Shot of the coming home campaign billboard.
Storm damage. Debris and rubble outside houses. Aerial shot of devastated neighbourhoods.
Interview with Cathy McRae
[Cathy McRae]
[Unclear]
[Cathy]
“Our corporate words were, we support the communities in which we live and work, and coming back
to New Orleans was living those values.”
[Frank]
“We weren’t bragging but we were definitely trying to help the city use us an example, look, if Shell
can come back so can you.”
[Video footage]
Schoolchildren running along pavement.
Person mowing his front lawn.
Panning down from a large building to a crowd of people dressed in yellow.
[Unidentified Male Speaker]
“I’d like to welcome everyone back and say to the city of New Orleans that Shell is home.”
[Narrator]
“January 30th 2006, a day etched in the memories of those who were there.”
[Video footage]
Crowd of people in Shell t-shirts. Men in suits cutting the ribbon on One Shell Square building. Crowd
claps.
[Fred]
“It was a party. In New Orleans you have a party. We had the flag that had been on One Shell and it
actually was up during the storm so it was tattered and we retrieved it and we brought it out to Robert
and it flew at Robert the whole time we were there. And so one of the visible signs of us returning was
to raise the flag of One Shell again. And Irvin Mayfield, who’s a world renowned jazz trumpeter, came
and he played the national anthem on his trumpet.”
[Video footage]
Folded up flag being handed down a line of Shell employees. Trumpeter plays USA national anthem as
flag is raised slowly. Shot looking up at trumpeter and flag. Crowd cheers.
[Fred]
“Then we had a second line to the park.”
[Narrator]
“The second line, the quintessential Louisiana tradition of following the band in joyous dance. After a
second devastating hurricane just three weeks after Katrina and months of despair, finally a glimmer of
hope and a reason to celebrate.”
[Video footage]
Shell employees walking in crowd, decorated umbrellas being waved. Brass band with drums. People
dancing in a line. Camera pans up at large building.
[Leslie]
“Celebration is a tradition in New Orleans. We celebrate things. And Mardi Gras is one of our biggest
celebratory seasons, you know, we love Mardi Gras.”
[Video footage]
Big brass band in a parade. Lots of floats with people in costumes. Crowds waving.
[Cathy]
“Mardi Gras is on St Charles Avenue and having families together and that coming back that first Mardi
Gras and seeing people that you didn’t know what happened to them. What really struck out for me is
they would say, this is my friend Cathy, this is my friend Marc, they work for Shell. So that was the
impact. What Shell did for the employees is truly amazing but the impact that Shell had in the
community of New Orleans just by its response, kind of, blew me away.”
[Video footage]
Crowds lining the streets for the carnival, waving to the people on floats. Camera going over a bridge,
looking up at metal structure.
[Narrator]
“Following the storm, with recovery limping along, the city’s iconic jazz festival is beginning to look like
another casualty. Quint Davis, producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, gets a call from
then lieutenant governor Mitch Andrew several weeks after Katrina.”
[Video footage]
Deserted neighbourhoods with derelict, severely damaged homes. Grass overgrown and graffiti on
walls.
Quint walking down a corridor. Quint walking through a building facing out to a racetrack.
Interview with Quint Davis
[Quint]
“He said to me, Quint, not having the jazz fest is not an option. Period.”
[Narrator]
“Jazz fest is two spring weekends of music, food and a celebration of everything that makes New
Orleans New Orleans. With an annual economic impact of more than $300 million the festival is not
just a cherished tradition, it’s a vital source of income.”
[Video footage]
Crowd of people in front of a stage. City skyline on horizon. People on stage playing jazz. Various
musicians. People dancing in groups. People dressed up in costumes, dancing. Crowd clapping and
dancing. Group of African dancers. Musicians playing trumpets and other instruments. Shot of crowd
looking at stage.
[Quint]
“When Shell came along to bring the festival back after Katrina, a lot of people looked at that as
bringing back the culture of New Orleans.”
[Video footage]
Press conference. Group of men in suits on stage. Crowd cheers and applauds.
[Unidentified Make Speaker – speaking at the press conference]
“Ladies and gentlemen, it’s on. First and foremost, we are honoured and overjoyed to announce the
arrival of the first ever jazz festival presenting sponsor, Shell.”
[Narrator]
“Once Shell steps in as presenting sponsor other sponsors come on board. Davis and his team scramble
to line up talent and get the battered fairgrounds in reasonable shape, all the while wondering, if we
build it, will they come?
[Video footage]
Fairground building with serious damage.
[Quint]
“The morning of the opening we’re in here getting ready and we start to get calls from the police and
the traffic people outside. We say, what is it? And they say, well… excuse me. [Gets emotional]. There’s
thousands and thousands of people lining up outside of the fairgrounds in every direction and they’re
stopping the traffic. And that moment when we opened the gates and the people ran onto the field,
that was one of the signature moments in bringing New Orleans back to life.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of the festival. Large crowd gathered around a stage.
People in city street. Bags and boxes everywhere. Looks like someone is selling things from a table.
Looking up at skyscraper.
[Narrator]
“The return of Jazz Fest helps stabilise the haemorrhaging economy as Shell works to stabilise its
operations in the city it chooses to still choose home. Frank Glaviano on some of the business reasons
for the company to keep its New Orleans roots.
[Frank]
“But if you look at operating the Gulf of Mexico, New Orleans is more centrally located, it’s closer to
the terminals where we operate, we’re closer to those government officials that regulate us being right
here in New Orleans, so it made some operational sense.”
[Video footage]
Large metal bridge. Camera pans across.
[Narrator]
“After 50 years of doing business in New Orleans there’s an immense emotional connection for
employees to stay in their shattered city. Shell goes deep into the community to assist in the recovery
of its neighbours, while at the same time navigating its own daunting recovery effort and the ripple
effect across its global business, the global financial markets and the nation’s fuel supply.”
[Video footage]
River with houses in background and large buildings in the distance. Zooms in on one of the buildings
in the background.
People raking up leaves in a park and cutting branches of trees.
People doing a DIY project outside.
Aerial shot of very large motorway interchange.
Inside a trading room, screens everywhere displaying stock prices.
Power/gas station.
[Frank]
“As we’re tracking the storm we knew that the eye of the storm was passing over the Mars platform
and a floating drilling rig nearby.”
[Narrator]
“Frank Glaviano recalls the harrowing hours during the height of Katrina’s category 5 strength. The
team doesn’t know that the eye of the hurricane is battering Mars with 80ft waves and 200mph winds.
Once the storm passes the first report comes in.
[Video footage]
Satellite diagram of storm clouds swirling and moving towards US coast.
Rain landing on flowing water.
Heavy rain and wind battering the city. Power lines and traffic lights hanging and swinging.
Large waves at sea.
Looking up at clouds moving slowly.
[Frank]
“I remember the phone call and she said, we’ve lost the rig at Mars.”
[Narrator]
“At the time Mars is the largest producing platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The first flyover after the
storm reveals unimaginable devastation. Lori Fremin is on that flight.”
[Video footage]
Rig at sea. Close-ups of parts of machinery. “Mars” banner hanging on rig.
Lori walking down a set of stairs.
Interview with Lori Freeman
[Lori]
“As we were flying up to the Mars platform I could tell from the silhouette that something was wrong.”
[Narrator]
“In her four years of working in the Mars tension leg platform she never expected this.”
[Image]
Photo taken from inside of a helicopter. Looking out in front, the rig can just be seen.
[Lori]
“I was absolutely horrified when I saw the silhouette of the platform without a very large derrick
coming up. It was almost unfathomable to think about very large, 4ft beams actually bending over like
plastic. It’s just horrific. I could not believe what we were looking at.”
[Video footage]
Collapsed oil rig platform. Close-up of collapsed beams. Aerial shot of rig with platform collapsed on
one side.
[Frank]
“My first thought was, can you even fix this? This was our largest asset in the Gulf of Mexico and one
of the largest for Shell in the world.”
[Images]
Various photographs of the collapsed platform.
Interview with Floyd Landry
[Floyd]
“Our production at that time was about 140,000 barrels of oil a day and about 165 million cubic feet of
gas a day, and that was about 25% of Shell’s Gulf of Mexico production.”
[Narrator]
“As Mars operations manager Floyd Landry quickly understands the enormity of the challenge from
both a corporate and a national perspective.”
[Video footage]
Floyd walking along a pavement towards camera.
[Floyd]
“It was a big deal to Shell and not only the nation because of the refining capabilities, you know, you
had to feed the refineries and if you withdrew that amount of production then obviously it would have
a national impact.”
[Narrator]
“It doesn’t take long for the White House to call. Charlie Williams, former vice president of Shell’s Gulf
of Mexico hurricane recovery.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of the White House.
Charlie walking down a corridor.
Interview with Charlie Williams
[Charlie]
“… the government was interested in, it was the Minerals Management Service that was really the
regulator, along with the coastguard. And of course the coastguard was calling all the time because
they were really worried about spills.”
[Narrator]
“For three months the recovery team hunkers down to design a course of action, starting with the
toppled drilling rig.”
[Video footage]
People with overalls on standing on the rig, holding onto a rope. Heavy cable being lifted by a crane,
close-up as cable is attached. Shot of platform as it is being fixed. Workers on a platform. Shot looking
up at lots of cranes attached to the drilling rig.
[Floyd]
“That drilling rig was on top of a lot of our processing equipment. It weighed the equivalent of two
Boeing 747 jumbo jets, so as part of that process we needed to remove all the debris we could with
cranes and when we were doing that we would keep the water going on the structure just in case we
had a fire.”
[Video footage]
Workers with welding equipment standing on a platform. Various shots of the drilling platform on its
side. Cranes lifting the platform slowly. Man in a control room. Workers looking up as the platform is
lifted. Shots of very large cranes lifting the platform. Sped-up shot as the cranes work into the night.
Aerial shot of the rig.
[Narrator]
“Another problem to solve early on, where to house some 500 offshore workers.”
[Charlie]
“We had a floating hotel that came from Norway and we moved it over here, which had actually never
been done before in deepwater.”
[Video footage]
Shot zooming out of the floating hotel. Basic, white buildings on top of a rig at sea.
[Narrator]
“Over the next several months the deepwater firsts continue, setting new standards for the industry.”
[Charlie]
“Nobody had ever repaired pipelines in 3,000ft of water but we’d actually repaired pipelines at Auger
and at Mars and at Ursa. So we went down and cut these pipelines and built repair sections and
installed repair sections and did that all with ROVs. That had never, ever been done before.”
[Video footage]
Workers on the rig having a group discussion, standing in a circle talking.
Shot looking up at the rig from sea level.
Leg of the rig going down into the water. Close-up of the steps leading down to a door, waves crashing
around it. Close-up of a cut pipeline. Shots of pipe being repaired.
[Narrator]
“Nine painstaking months later Mars is back on production, three months ahead of schedule, making a
direct impact on global crude prices and world financial markets.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of fixed oil rig.
[Video footage]
News report. Chart of crude oil prices showing recent uplift. Headline reads, “Crude spike.”
[Newsreader]
“Crude oil climbed to $68.74 a barrel, that puts it within striking distance of an all-time high.”
[Narrator]
“By the following July Mars is already producing slightly above its pre-Katrina rates. The National
Ocean Industries Association presents Shell with a 2006 safety in seas award for its recovery of Mars.
The company goes on to set a Gulf of Mexico production record within five years of unprecedented
storm damage that derailed its operations.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot circling the oil platform. A ship can be seen approaching the platform.
[Images]
People being presented with an award.
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of the oil platform. A ship can be seen approaching the platform.
Interview with Derek Newberry
[Name and title]
[Unclear]
[Derek]
“So the story of Mars and the Mars field since Hurricane Katrina to me is a story of resilience and the
ingenuity of all the people who work within Shell’s deepwater business.
[Narrator]
“In 2008 Derek Newberry is at the forefront of Shell’s deepwater expansion with the Mars B
development. February 2014, it comes onto production as Shell’s largest tension leg platform in the
Gulf of Mexico, extending the life of the Mars field to the year 2050.”
[Video footage]
Aerial show of the a rig, close to shore.
Aerial shot of another rig further out at sea.
Shot from the platform of the rig.
Another shot showing the rig being built, cranes operating from a platform alongside it. Shot of the leg
of one platform showing another platform in the background.
[Derek Newberry]
“When we think about the hydrocarbon resource base within the Mars field it truly is a world class oil
development and oil deposit and it plays an important role to the Gulf of Mexico’s contribution to the
US energy supply.”
[Video footage]
Derek leaning against a rail, looking out at the water.
[Narrator]
“The success of the Mars field and other tension leg platforms dates back to 1994 and a revolutionary
breakthrough.”
[Video footage]
Sun setting on the horizon, silhouette of an oil rig at sea.
Old footage panning down a rig. Machinery being lifted by a crane, team of people fitting it into place.
[Charlie]
“There really was no deepwater until Shell beet Auger, the first TLP, and put it on production, because
up until that time people actually still didn’t believe there was going to be world-class production and
world-class reserves in deepwater.”
[Video footage]
Sun going down on the horizon. Shot from the oil rig platform looking at across see, silhouette of
machinery can be seen in foreground.
[Narrator]
“In July of 2014 Shell retrofits Auger, it’s oldest platform in the prolific Gulf of Mexico, allowing it to
access a new subsea field in deepwater. Today, Gulf of Mexico deepwater production provides 17% of
the United States crude oil supply and 5% of its natural gas supply. It is a major contributor to
something Americans never thought possible, energy security. And the valuable lessons learned from
one of the deadliest hurricanes in US history continue to have a significant impact on the oil and gas
industry across the globe.”
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of rig. Camera pans down part of the rig. Shot looking out to sea from the rig’s platform,
sun going down on horizon. Distant shot of the rig at sea. Close-up of machinery being used on the rig.
Person filling up their car with petrol. Petrol station pump showing petrol going into car. Hob on a
cooker lit up with gas. Sped-up footage of very busy motorway. Silhouette of rig as sun goes down.
Shot of rig at sea, rainbow in the background.
[Charlie]
“Nobody had predicted this strength of storms and certainly not two storms in the same year. It
especially changed the design criteria for anchoring mobile drilling rigs because we had so many of
them adrift. We’ve had hurricanes since then and there’s been no rigs adrift since then.”
[Video footage]
Oil rig with ship next to it. Lots of cranes on rig, fixing parts of it. Aerial shot of rig.
[Narrator]
Katrina. In the ten years since the storm slammed upon the shores of Gulf Coast, Louisiana, those who
survived her wrath have moved on, but their personal stories of loss and life are still fresh.”
[Video footage]
Waves of water crashing against a pier. Tree being battered by wind and rain as water floods around it.
Trees bending over in the wind and rain.
Person in yellow waterproof coat and trousers walks in the rain. Handwritten sign on a piece of wood
reading, “Twas grace that brought us safe thus far and grace will lead us home!”
[Floyd]
“Throughout this whole recovery the people at Shell, a lot of people were in the exact same position as
I was. They’d lost everything, yet they were also finding ways to participate, return to work and help
reconstruct and get things back to normal.”
[Video footage]
Inside the shell of a house being built. People hammering and drilling bits of wood. People gardening in
the park, pushing wheelbarrows full of leaves. A woman tends to a bush in the park. Team of people
carrying planks of wood.
[Background music]
Jazzy, upbeat music.
[Narrator]
“The new normal, life after Katrina. From Bourbon Street and Beignets to Mardi Gras and Jazz fest, the
heart of this city still beating loud and strong.
[Video footage]
Narrow, busy city street, people walking along. Cafes and shopfront signs. A tram. Palm tree lined
street, busy with cars and trams.
[Leslie]
“You know in New Orleans we don’t only live here, we live here.”
[Video footage]
Woman dancing, twirling an umbrella. People dancing at a festival. Crowd of people clapping their
hands. People dressed up in costumes. Drumming band dances, crowd around them also dancing.
[Cathy]
“If we just know that we all can rally together and do amazing things, to me that’s what Katrina and
Shell and living in New Orleans really brought it all together.”
[Video footage]
Flag for New Orleans Jazz Festival. Musicians on stage at festival. People dancing in crowd and on
stage. Camera pans out to show crowd at festival.
[Narrator]
“Renewing their spirit, reclaiming their lives, rebuilding their city, after the storm.”
[Graphic]
Silhouette of oil rig at sea with water flowing in foreground, sunset on the horizon.
[Text displays]
After the Storm
Deepwater’s Journey
[Music]
Calm music
[Credits]
[Text displays]
Lorelle Media
A Lorelle media Production
Copyright 2015