Title: Shell Gumusut-Kakap: Delivering deep-water energy
Duration: 5:14 minutes
[Background music]
Modern classical
[Voiceover]
Gumusut-Kakap, a Shell mega project located in the deep oil-rich waters of Malaysia.
[Video footage]
Fairly close-up panning over a rig at sea. Shot of whole rig from above. Shot of rig from further away.
Interview with Nick Turner
[Nick]
“Gumusut is going to change the landscape for Malaysia”.
[Voiceover]
24,000 tonnes of steel floats on the surface, anchored to the ocean 1,200 metres below.
[Video footage]
Close-up shots of rig lit up at night. Shot of rig at sea from further away. Close-up of chain in water.
Interview with Simon Ong
[Name and title]
General manager, projects operated, East
[Simon]
“As an engineer you cannot be more excited to be involved with mega projects as we call it. It’s a
world-class facility by any measures”.
[Video footage]
Large rig being built in yard. Men in overalls and hard hats walking past. Rig being put on boat in
dockyard.
[Voiceover]
Energy is vital to our daily lives and as the world’s thirst for energy continues to grow the challenge
is to find and develop new sources. This is the story of how Shell’s Gumusut-Kakap field is helping to
meet this energy challenge. With an expected capacity to produce up to 135,000 barrels of oil a day
it is producing much needed energy for the region and boosting skills and jobs. So how was the
project brought to life?
[Video footage]
Very large motorway interchange, lots of different roads, cars sped-up. Large city skyline at night.
Sped-up cars going over a bridge. Sped-up busy city road at night, large buildings either side. Rig
being built on land. Panning around a work yard with cranes and machinery. Close-up of barrels.
Barrels lined up in warehouse. Man labelling barrels. People in overalls in work yard. Man delivering
talk to group of people in overalls. Man welding. Large machinery being moved out of warehouse.
Panning around a rig at sea.
[Text displays]
Shell Gumusut-Kakap
Delivering deep-water energy
[Video footage]
Panning down a large sculpture of a oil well with men at bottom operating, camera zooms in on
plaque – “MIRI Well No. 1 – The first oil well in Malaysia drilled by cable tool method.”
Interview with Nick Turner
[Name and title]
Malaysia deep water venture leader
[Nick]
“Shell has been in Malaysia for over 120 years. At the start, of course, the oil industry was very
different. Over the years we have progressively gone deeper and into more complex and challenging
environments. Shell as a global company has taken that knowledge and deployed it into Malaysia”.
[Video footage]
Oil rig at sea. Close-up over machinery. Men pulling in a drill bit. Panning over machinery in rig.
[Voiceover]
Working offshore is never easy. But working in the dark, cold waters at a depth of 1,200 metres
presented the team with an immense challenge.
[Video footage]
Men working on computers with many monitors. Monitors show film footage from cameras. Closeup of monitor showing a chain underwater. People watching monitors.
Interview with Milan Hendrikse
[Name and title]
Gumusut-Kakap project manager
[Milan]
“Normally if you take shallow water as a reference, typically the structure stands on the sea bottom
and things are accessible for divers. The deep water, you can’t do that anymore, so you have to
design things you can only touch it with what they call remotely-operated vehicles, like a robot that
floats to turn valves 1,200 metres below”.
[Video footage]
People looking at monitors. Close-up of monitor with chain underwater. Robotic machinery doing
something with chain.
[Voiceover]
Drawing on its expertise in deep water, Shell decided to use a floating production system where an
oil platform floats like a boat and is anchored to the ocean floor with steel tendons and anchor
chains.
[Video footage]
Rig at sea from above. Panning over rig. Rig shot from further away.
[Milan]
“It floats there, offshore. It’s held in position by 12 big anchors all the way down, 1,200 metres deep,
and it processes the hydrocarbons. The oil gets sent to the beach via an export pump and a 200
kilometre pipeline and gas and water get to be injected into the reservoir, and that will help get
more hydrocarbons out at the ground at the end of the day as well”.
[Video footage]
Rig being assembled at night, on land. Rig being assembled using crane.
Interview with Siti Sulaiman
[Name and title]
General manager, Sabah
[Siti]
“If you look at the Shell global portfolio of deep-water projects this is probably one of the most
complex ones. So it means that we have to bring in new technologies, both from the sub-surface and
surface point of view. So it’s really about proving that the technologies that we have had developed
or applied somewhere else are actually working for Gumusut.”
[Video footage]
Man tying rope around large pipe. Man sanding large pipe. Men welding large pipe.
Interview with Ian Lim
[Name and title]
Gamusut-Kakap deputy project manager
[Ian]
“It also ties into how we operate as a group, where you tap into local expertise and local talent and
local capability as much as possible, supplemented and supported by global processes and global
expertise that exist elsewhere”.
[Video footage]
Men talking on rig. Men in group, looking at machinery. Man welding. Men discussing plans in a
group. Rig being assembled with cranes.
[Voiceover]
The project led to many firsts, and not just for Malaysia.
[Milan]
“One of the records was definitely the super lift. In the yard we built the hull from the ground up and
we built the topsides from the ground up, but at some stage it had to be mated and the way we
went about it was to lift the topsides. So we had about the weight of 23,000 tonnes that we had to
pull up about 45 metres, and that then allowed us to slide the hull under it and get it connected. So
that was definitely the biggest lift in the world”.
[Video footage]
Sped-up footage of rig being assembled. Topsides lifted and large part slid underneath.
Shots of rig at sea. Far away and then closer.
[Voiceover]
Gumusut-Kakap is a remote facility 120kilometres offshore and home to 140 people, so the highest
standards of safety are strictly adhered to.
[Video footage]
People in overalls walking towards rig. Man directing group of people. Group of men in overalls
listening to instructions.
[Nick]
“Safety is clearly very important for our Gumusut operations, number one on everybody’s agenda.
It’s not just safety as well but we have a community out there and we’re also concerned about the
welfare of the staff, whether they’re able to focus on their job, and we know that they’re able to go
back to their families safely at the end of each tour of duty and are able to say, I work in a safe
environment”.
[Video footage]
People in overalls in large work yard. Men securing a very large pipe for lifting. Man in operating
room next to large dashboard. Lots of people in overalls. Shot of rig at sea from far away. Closer shot
of rig.
[Voiceover]
Gumusut-Kakap is more than just Shell’s first deep-water project in Malaysia. It opens up the
potential for the creation of a major deep-water hub in South East Asia, a hub that can help meet
the world’s energy challenge.
[Video footage]
Panning over rig at sea. Far away shot of rig.
[Graphic]
Shell logo on white background.
[Text displays]
Copyright Shell International 2014