Title: People and Progress: Cathal’s Story
Duration: 2:31 minutes
Description:
The experience of Cathal Shevlin, managing director of Shevlin Engineering, with the Corrib gas field
project in County Mayo, Ireland.
People and Progress: Cathal’s Story Film Transcript
[Background music plays]
Interview with Cathal Shevlin
[Cathal Shevlin]
Cathal Shevlin
Managing director of Shevlin Engineering, Belmullet
[Cathal]
My name is Cathal Shevlin, I'm from Belmullet. I'm managing director of Shevlin Engineering.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Aerial shot of village and harbor
Aerial view of Shevlin Engineering site
A parked Shevlin Engineering van
[Cathal]
My company started in ‘99, with myself and two other guys; today we’ve 37.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Angle grinder being used
Cathal at work, pointing
Cathal at work in safety vest and hard hat
[Cathal]
We were doing a lot of work in the fishing industry, agricultural sector, local quarries, stuff like that.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
A large fish underwater
Sheep grazing in grassy field
Excavator at work in the countryside
[Cathal]
Belmullet’s a small place, work is hard got, the economy was on its knees. Yes, we’ve been very lucky
with Shell coming to town, as I say.
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Split screen:
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Various views of the town and harbor
Various views of earthmoving works
[Cathal]
We focused on what their requirements would be.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Views of fencing and industrial site
[Cathal]
I looked at what Shell do, what their history was, and how they operate, and then we looked at gas
plants in general.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Various scenes of construction site from a distance
Two views of gas plants
[Cathal]
Initially we would have started on the beach in Glengad, on the landfall.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Two views of landfall construction site with harbor
Two views of industrial site under construction
[Cathal]
A lot of the work we’ve done was labour intensive, and then as time progressed, we got bigger
machinery to do heavier tasks, and bigger tasks, and to do the job quicker.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Workers on the construction site in safety vests and hard hats
Large indoor machinery at work
[Cathal]
We were scared to even be buying the machinery, but after a few months things settled down and we
got into what we done, and that was work for Corrib, and that made it a lot easier.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
More shots of large indoor machinery at work
Pan up site fencing to the sky
[Cathal]
We’re a bit cocooned from the outside word.
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[Video footage]
Split screen:
A village harbor at high tide
Long country road leads off into the distance
[Cathal]
It’s had a huge impact on us. When we go for a pre-award meeting with another company now, one of
your first questions is who have you worked for? So you tell them, we worked on Corrib, one of the
biggest projects in Europe, and they’re impressed by it.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Animation of the tunnel building project
Footage of plant and production
External views of construction site in the distance
[Cathal]
We’ve done a lot of schools around the country. Our Lady Secondary School was one of the first
schools we’ve done. It was a very challenging build.
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of a school premises
[Cathal]
We’ve a lot of work in the UK at the moment, doing a big job in Wembley Park.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Shevlin Engineering truck driving
Engineers in an office
Indoor engineering equipment being used
Cathal at work, instructing a worker
[Cathal]
We’re beating UK companies because we have the standards behind us to show that a local company
had achieved this, this was a huge thing for us.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Shevlin Engineering van pulls out of site car park
Aerial shot of village and harbour
[Cathal]
Shell have helped us a lot. I suppose we were lucky that it happened to be an industry to come in that
needed services that we could provide. It gave us the opportunity to employ more people, which was
very important in the area. It’s great to look at people that you went to school with, and they’re
working alongside you, and there’s great satisfaction from that.
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Split screen:
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Panning shot across industrial site
Welder at work in welding mask
Various interior engineering works in progress
Workers at Shevlin Engineering performing tasks
[Cathal]
And they have educated us in terms of safety, in terms of work practices, so now we’re going to use
that in future jobs.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Workers on construction site in safety vests and hard hats
Various shots of safety signs
[Cathal]
[VO] In turn, it lets us go out into the world and compete for bigger jobs. We’re prepared to compete
with other companies, and that’s what we’re doing at the moment.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Aerial and interior shots of work at Shevlin Engineering
[Cathal]
In general it’s thanks to Shell, to what they’ve taught us along the way, and the way they’ve helped us
out.
[Video footage]
Split screen:
Workers on construction site in safety vests and hard hats
[Text displays]
Shevlin Engineering is one of 300+ Irish companies that have built the Corrib gas project.
Corrib has helped other Irish businesses and individuals to progress and prosper.
Shell logo
Statoil logo
Vermilion Energy logo
The Corrib gas field development is a Shell operated joint venture with Statoil and Vermilion Energy.
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