Deep-water momentum at its best

Title:  Shell BC-10- Deep-water momentum at its best - from YouTube

Duration: 4:27 minutes

Description:  

An overview of Shell’s BC-10, or Parque das Conchas,  project in the Campos Basin off Brazil, in which seven deep-water wells were delivered with world-class construction times and safety performance, facilitated by phenomenal team spirit.

Shell BC-10- Deep-water momentum at its best - from YouTube Transcript

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BC-10

Deep-water Momentum at its Best

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Panning bird’s eye view of a section of Brazil’s coastline, ocean and blue skies forming the background.

Panning bird’s eye view of a city set around a bay with mountains and hills, and blue skies above, forming the background.

Wide view of a city street with people walking, running and cycling on the sidewalks, trees, vehicles and buildings forming the background.

Wide view of a beach scene, people sitting under beach umbrellas, and boats on the sparkling water beyond.

Wide view of the water by night, boats in the background and a single canoer passing in front of them.

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Latin America’s biggest economy is emerging as a leader in deep-water oil exploration. Billed as Brazil’s “crude awakening”, the boom is impressive. But safely drilling wells far below the ocean surface to unlock the energy resources the world needs can be costly and technically demanding.

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Aerial view of a city highway filled with cars.

Rear view of a city sidewalk teeming with people.

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Slowly zooming screenshot of a GlobalPost webpage with text and graphics relating to the Crude Awakening in Brazil.

Panning aerial shot of a drilling vessel on the ocean, a smaller support vessel alongside it.

Interior view of the drilling vessel.

Mid-shot of three men wearing Noble branded overalls and safety gear on the vessel, carrying the safety clamps and setting them around the drilling pipe which is slowly descending below the platform.

Interviews with Shell BC-10 Team Members

[Title]

General Manager Well Delivery Brazil, Shell

[Suheyl Ozyigit]

The main challenges are obviously the projects are in deep-water. It is a technologically challenging area and we are expected to actually just deliver those projects in time and within certain budget constraints.

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If you circulate and that seal fails, then you get sand...

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Close up of Suheyl seated in an office environment, with a computer screen displaying the Shell logo visible behind him.

Mid-shot of Suheyl and several men seated around a boardroom-style table, discussing the documents which are on the table in front of them.

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Close-up of one of the men speaking to another whose back is to the camera.

Close-up profile shot of another of the men, as he listens.

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[Narrator]

Suheyl Ozyigit is the Well Delivery Manager for Shell’s BC-10 project, also known as Parque das Conchas. His team orchestrated a major feat in deep-water history by delivering seven deep-water wells with world-class construction times and safety performance. This was accomplished 132 days ahead of an already ambitious plan.

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Close-up of Suheyl as he speaks to the men at the table.

Aerial close-up of a hand pointing to a diagram on the table.

Panning low angle shot of the men at the table, as they discuss. 

Close-up of another pair of hands, paging through documents on the table in front of him.

Mid-shot of the meeting from a different angle.

Close-up profile shot of one of the men, as before.

Close-up of a pair of arms belonging to one of the men, hand poised with pen to write on the page in front of him. The shot pans up to a close-up of his face.

[Suheyl Ozyigit]

That’s what we do. That’s the job. It is challenging, yes, but I think we are all trained to actually just take the challenge and try to make it happen.

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Close up of Suheyl seated in an office environment, with a computer screen displaying the Shell logo visible behind him.

[Narrator]

The BC-10 field is located in the Campos Basin off Brazil, an ultra deep water offshore from the city of Vitoria. The field was discovered in 2002 and is being developed in three phases, using the compact Noble Bully Two rig.

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Aerial view of part of the earth’s globe, South America at the centre, with Africa, most of North America and some of Europe and Asia also visible.

Zoom in to South America and the Campos Basin, with white text displaying location information.

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Vitoria

BC-10 (Parque Das Conchas)

Rio de Janeiro

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Panning bird’s eye view of the deck or platform of the drilling vessel, seas and skies in the background.

Rear high-angle view of a man seated at the controls, facing numerous data-displaying screens while rigging is visible on the platform beyond.

[Suheyl Ozyigit]

Phase two was an achievement on its own but we knew that we could make that even better.

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Close-up profile view of the man seated at the controls, cutting to a close-up of his hands at the controls.

Close up of Suheyl seated in an office environment, with a computer screen displaying the Shell logo visible behind him.

[Narrator]

Unlike phases one and two, the oil and gas in phase three lie in small, scattered pockets, making them harder to access. But using the latest in drilling technology offered a solution. Steve Jones was the lead well engineer for BC-10 phase three.

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Panning low-angle view of part of the rigging, the skies forming the background above.

Front view of a red drilling machine as it approaches the camera and stops at the drilling pipe.

Close-up of the descending drilling pipe, panning down to a close-up of the hole in the platform through which the pipe drills down.

Rear view of Steve Jones seated at a workstation in an office environment, facing a computer screen.

Close-up of Steve’s hand on his computer mouse.

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Senior Wells Engineer, Shell

[Steve Jones]

I think fairly early on people started to get a taste of what the rig was capable of and were starting to guess that this might come in quicker than expected.

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Close up of Steve seated in an office environment, with windows visible beyond the workstations behind him.

Panning aerial view of the platform and rigging of the drilling vessel, with the support vessel alongside and blue seas and skies forming the background.

[Narrator]

That forecast was initially hidden behind significant barriers.

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Mid-shot profile view of Steve Jones at his workstation as previously described. 

[Steve Jones]

One of the key ones for me was trying to land in such thin reservoirs, three to five metres thick in places, and not continuous either, and then geosteering through those to protect the net to gross for subsurface to increase the ultimate recoveries of these wells.

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Panning over a graphic representation of the seabed, indicating the path and location of the wells.

Close up of Steve seated in an office environment, with windows visible beyond the workstations behind him.

[Narrator]

It wasn’t the only hurdle. Normally when you drill wells in batches, the safety device called a blowout preventer, or BOP in short, is pulled to surface to move it to the next well. This is considered one of the most time-intensive operations on a deep-water drilling rig. In phase three, the team made additional preparations to the BOP, allowing them to safely deploy it just once and keep it submerged for almost six months so it could protect one well directly after the other, while maintaining operational and functional integrity.

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Aerial view of the drilling pipe descending below the ocean’s surface.

High-angle view via video feed of the blowout preventer below the ocean surface, an arm rotating and removing the top cover. Data appears at the top of the feed.

Video feed from a different angle of the BOP as a flurry of sand partially obscures the open BOP. 

Video feed showing various high-angle views of the BOP during phase three indicating how it is deployed.

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Rig Superintendent, Noble

[Sebastian Van Diemen]

If you think that pulling the BOP and then re-running it again is about a seven day exercise and we would have to have done that in-between the seven wells, you’re looking at about a six weeks’ worth of work which we were able to forgo.

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Video feed close-up of the BOP on the ocean bed.

Close-up of Sebastian Van Diemen, wearing safety gear and standing against the blurred background of rigging and the ocean and skies beyond.

[Narrator]

Another factor in the project speed was maximising the Bully Two’s multipurpose tower. The tower accelerated progress by allowing preparatory work and drilling to occur simultaneously on both sides of the tower. Once the momentum started, it was unstoppable.

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Panning bird’s eye view of the drilling vessel, blue seas and sky visible beyond.

Wide aerial view of a pipe moving along a conveyer belt, workmen walking beside it.

Close-up of conveyor belt mechanism.

Wide view of three workmen again surrounding the drilling pipe, this time as it ascends, to remove the safety clamps.

Low angle view of rigging rising against the sky in the background, cutting to a panning worm’s-eye view of the rigging rising vertically to the skies.

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Senior Drilling Supervisor, Shell

[Rusty Wise]

We set our goal that we were going to do this project faster than any rig in the world within the first couple of weeks.

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Close-up of Rusty wise, wearing safety gear, against the background of the drilling vessel’s rigging.

[Narrator]

But by all accounts, the key factor in BC-10’s safety and speed was the team spirit.

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Wide view of three workmen again carrying the safety clamps towards the descending drilling pipe.

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Rig Manager, Noble

[Ed Schreiner]

Without a doubt, it’s the people – the people that made the difference within the whole project of the BC-10 phase and the Noble Bully Two.

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Close-up of Ed Schreiner, wearing safety gear. The red drilling machine can be seen moving in the background.

Close-up profile view of a workman pointing up to the rigging, other workmen in the background.

[Rusty Wise]

This rig has lots of technical aspects that are different from other rigs but still, without the right team on board, nothing we did here could have been done.

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High-angle view of two workmen bending over drilling equipment that they are working on. Other workmen stand in the background.

Close-up profile views of three workmen talking and gesturing against the background of the rigging.

Close-up of Rusty Wise, as previously described.

[Narrator]

What started as unchartered territory will no doubt become a map for safe and efficient deep-water drilling in the future.

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Panning aerial view of the oil drilling vessel and support vessel against the background of the surrounding ocean.

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Shell logo.

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