Title:WORLDS HEAVIEST LIFT

Duration: 1:01 minutes

Description:

Brent Delta platform lift and removal.

WORLDS HEAVIEST LIFT Final Transcript

[Background music plays]

Instrumental dance-stylemusic with synth sounds and strings in parts.

[Video footage]

Satellite imagery of Great Britain and the North Sea, zooming through the clouds to the location of the Brent field, where a yellow locator line and square indicate the exact location.

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Brent oil field

[Video footage]

Panning aerial footage of swirling dark blue seas, then panning up to an extreme wide view of the Brent Delta platform in the distance, seen against a background of blue seas and skies,

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The world’s heaviest offshore lift.

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Bird’s eye footage of the Brent Delta platform, seen against a background of dark blue seas.

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Shell Brent Delta platform. 24,200 tonnes.

[Animated sequence]

CGI imagery of a blueprint outline of the Brent Delta platform, including substructure and topside, seen against a background of royal blue grid graph paper. The outline increases in size and moves inwards, filling the centre of the frame. The topside of the platform lifts off the substructure beneath.

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It took five years of planning…

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Bird’s eye view of the twin-hulled Pioneering Spirit, faintly visible through a blanket of mist, although blue skies are visible above. Bird’s eye view of the same vessel, seen moving though dark blue ocean waters. Point of view footage as from the bow of the Pioneering Spirit, the two hulls of the vessel visible at frame-left and frame-right, swirling dark waters in the foreground, and the Brent Delta platform in the distance, seen against a black night sky.Fast motion/time-lapse footage by night of the twin hulled Pioneering Spirit moving into position around the platform.

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and the world’s largest construction vessel.

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Point-of-view imagery from under the topside, from various angles, showing the vessel’s lift beams extending and positioning under the topside.

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16 hydraulic motion compensating lifting arms…

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Close-ups as well as wider views of the hydraulic clamps mounted on the beams rising to connect with the underside of the topside.

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were carefully positioned.

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Low angle footage of the vessel’s hydraulic lift system lifting the platform free of the platform’s legs.

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They raised the platform…

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Front view of the Pioneering Spirit straddling the platform legs while lifting the topside clear of the legs, all against a background of blue seas and skies.

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in just ten seconds.

[Video footage]

Bird’s eye view of the Pioneering Spirit, at frame-right, moving through the ocean carrying the platform topside, whilst the top of the platform legs are visible in the distance at upper frame-left.

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An engineering marvel.

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Bird’s eye view of the topside aboard the Pioneering Spirit seen against the background of dark blue ocean waters and cloudy blue skies.

[Audio]

Shell jingle.

[Graphic]

Shell Pecten centred on a white background with text displaying below.

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