Title: SEPC - Nguang-Yong Chiew, General Manager Shell manufacturing site on
Jurong Island - from YouTube
Duration: 3:59 minutes
Description:
Nguang-Yong Chiew, General Manager of Shell’s manufacturing site on Jurong Island speaks about
the manufacture of mono-ethylene glycol in the plant, explaining the technologies used to maximize
capacity, reduce energy usage and thus increase efficiency and competitiveness.
SEPC - Nguang-Yong Chiew, General Manager Shell manufacturing site on Jurong
Island - from YouTube Transcript
[Video footage]
Black screen filled with white, illegible text.
[Background music plays]
Fast-paced, rhythmic instrumental music plays.
[Video footage]
Dissolve to side angle point of view shot of Shell oil tanker speeding towards the camera and then past,
the word Shell in large print on the side of the tanker. Buildings line the street, forming the
background. In the distance, towards frame-right, Shell street signage is visible.
Close-up of two workmen in safety gear i.e. clothing, helmets and goggles, involved in a discussion.
[Split screen]
Pull back to four quadrants with white borders, all displaying images of workmen and women onsite.
Pull back to 16 similar images and continues this action several times over, until there is a blurred
collage of images over which text zooms from the bottom right corner to fill the lower half of the
screen.
[Text displays]
Shell People
[Video footage]
Zoom in on text as the collage of images zooms in and out.
Interview with Nguang-Yong Chiew
[Title]
General Manager, Jurong Manufacturing Site
[Text displays]
N. Y. Chew
General Manager
Jurong Manufacturing Site
[Video footage]
Dissolve to mid-shot of NY in safety clothing, as described, with shirt and helmet reflecting the Shell
logo. The pipes and scaffolding and other components of the manufacturing plant form the
background, with pale blue sky visible top frame-left.
[NY]
Hello. My name is NY Chiew. I’m the General Manager of Shell’s Manufacturing Site here in Jurong
Island, Singapore. We’re standing right here in the middle of our Shell’s latest site that was built and
constructed and started up in November 2009. This is the mono-ethylene glycol plant. It’s a world-scale
manufacturing site and it produces 750,000 tonnes of MEG every year.
[Video footage]
Dissolve to wide view of the ocean beyond the Jurong plant, beyond which the refinery in Pulau Bukom
is visible. A boat crosses the ocean from frame-left to right as another vessel moves in the opposite
direction. Grey seas and skies form the background.
Pull-back to extreme wide view.
[NY]
Down in Pulau Bukom there’s our Shell’s refinery in Singapore and it’s connected by submarine
pipeline from Pulau Bukom Refinery through another island back into the plant here in the… in Shell
Jurong Island.
[Video footage]
Dissolve to panning low angle view of gleaming steel structures that make up the mono-ethylene glycol
plant. Light blue skies are visible above.
Dissolve to mid-shot of NY against the background of the plant and blue skies, as described previously.
He gestures as he speaks.
Pull back to mid-shot of NY. He turns around to gesture to the plant as he speaks.
[NY]
What we manufacture here, in our MEG plant, is mono-ethylene glycol. This is the feedstock that goes
into making a lot of our everyday products. It includes the polyester fibres that go into most of our
shirts. The chemicals that goes into the PET bottles that we use every day in the drinking bottles. The
capacity of the plant here you can see is actually 750,000 tonnes a year and it is actually a world-scale
plant. Put that in context, you can actually make 6.7 billion shirts out of our annual production, that’s
actually more than the population of the world today.
[Video footage]
Panning aerial shot of the plant.
Reverse panning shot of plant, ocean visible in the background, dotted with several boats. In the
foreground, steam rises from a chimney.
Cut to panning front-view of part of the plant, a network of scaffolding, pipes and tank structures
visible.
Close-up of large horizontal tank, pulling back to a wider view of its position within the larger structure.
[NY]
Having said that, let me just give a quick run through on how we manufacture the mono-ethylene
glycol here in the plant. It starts off getting our feedstock from our Bukom refinery, the ethylene
cracker, via the submarine pipeline – comes to here. The ethylene comes into the plant. It is combined
with oxygen to form ethylene oxide. And ethylene oxide is manufactured in this part of the plant and is
next combined with water in… together to form our mono-ethylene glycol. And it’s here before it’s
actually transported out of the site.
[Video footage]
Dissolve to another view of large, cylindrical structures, pulling back to a wider view.
Dissolve to close-up of a waterfall of grey water, pulling back to a wider frontal view of the cooling
water system. Each square-shaped section on the face of the cooling system is separated from the next
by a dividing wall and concrete runs along the top of the structure. Pipes run from top to bottom of the
structure at intervals. Various steel pipes and structures a pale sky form the background.
Dissolve to point of view shot, with the first of the eight sections of the water system filling frame left
while the remaining stretch out at an angle towards frame-right. Pale skies are visible above the
structure.
Dissolve to mid-shot of NY against the background of the plant and blue skies, as described previously.
He gestures as he speaks.
[NY]
Let me describe something that is different here that is different from the Pulau Bukom refinery, as
well as the other sites in Shell Jurong, in Shell Singapore. One of the major differences is the use of a
closed-loop cooling water system where we use cooling towers to actually cool down the water that
goes around the site, to actually cool down the processes. In other plants we typically use either
seawater or we use river water, or other brackish water. With this process, we are able to reduce our
energy usage and, at the same time, utilize something that is an important resource for the world –
that’s water.
[Video footage]
Cut to panning low angle view of the steel and concrete structures of the plant. One section of red pipe
is visible frame-left before the camera pans away. Light blue skies form the background above.
Dissolve to fast motion bird’s eye view of the plant, pale blue skies forming the background as clouds
race across the sky and vehicles and figures speed in and out of frame in various directions.
Dissolve to mid-shot of NY against the background of the plant and blue skies, as described previously.
He gestures as he speaks.
[NY]
The other important aspect of the design in the MEG plant here is we actually utilise an OMEGA
Technology. This is the first in the Shell World where we actually use a new technology to be able to
help us extract more in terms of the yield of the product. Typical plants using the older technology can
only produce 1.5 to 1.6 tonnes of MEG per tonne of ethylene through input. By using OMEGA
technology, we’re able to bring up the figure to 1.9 tonnes of MEG produced per tonne of ethylene
that is actually used as a feedstock. We believe this is a breakthrough technology. We believe it’s the
best way that we can actually use to help us, at the same time we start improving the yield, we can
actually improve also the energy you save.
[Video footage]
Cut to close-up of NY against the background of the plant and pale skies beyond. He nods as he
emphasises his point.
[NY]
And I’m looking forward and confident that moving forward, we will be able to help Shell secure a
more competitive advantage in the market and able to deliver quality products to our customers at the
right price, right quantity, right quality and the moment they need it.
[Video footage]
Fade to black.