Stones

Title: Stones: Where Ingenuity And Innovation Intersect

Duration: 2:14 minutes

Description:

A brief overview of Shell’s Stones project including its unique technology for deep water production, and its record of safe construction.

Shell’s Stones Project Transcript

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Moderate tempo piano music

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Aerial view of the open water of the Gulf of Mexico near the Stones site.

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Stones: Where Ingenuity And Innovation Intersect

[Voice of Narrator]

200 miles southwest of New Orleans, in the Gulf of Mexico is the Stones field…

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Map showing location of the Stones field south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.

Narrator

…an ultra deepwater discovery that’s spurred unprecedented innovation.

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Aerial view of the “Turritella”, a floating production and storage vessel.

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Ian Silk, VP for Deepwater Projects, Shell

Ian Silk

The Stones Project is the first FPSO, floating production, that we’ve put into the Gulf of Mexico. It is production from the deepest water anywhere in the world.

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Aerial view of the “Turritella”, a floating production and storage vessel.

Narrator

The subsea infrastructure for Stones is located beneath 9,500 feet of water, a record-breaking water depth for an oil and gas production facility.

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Animation of the subsea equipment located under the Turritella, including mooring lines and oil production piping, or “risers”.

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Animation of the oil production equipment located on the sea floor.

Narrator

The Stones wells produce from reservoirs nearly 30,000 ft below sea level. But, these are not the only milestones for this historic development.

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Amir Salem, Construction Engineer, SBM

Amir Salem

Stones, as a project, comes up with a solution to many of the problems that we face.

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[Video footage]
Two Shell employees and an SBM employee watching monitors in the control room of the Turritella as the ship connects to the buoy at the Stones field.

[Animation sequence]
Animation of the lazy wave risers between the ship and the sea floor

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Narrator

Turning ideas into innovation, the Stones team pioneered the combination of steel lazy wave risers with a disconnectable buoy.

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Animation of the buoy disconnecting from the ship and then dropping under the water below the ship. Animation continues with views of the ship sailing away from the buoy and the marker left where it is located.

Narrator

This game-changing application enables the FPSO to sail away during severe weather.

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Blake Moore, Stones FPSO Manager, Shell

Blake Moore

Most of the time FPSOs transit to site, take off their rudder, take off their propeller, they don’t need it anymore. Not us. What we need to do is we need to be able to disconnect and travel around to get away from hurricanes.

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Aerial footage of the buoy, visible at the surface of the water. A view aboard the ship as it sails in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Jeremy Dean, Stones Buoy Construction Lead, Shell

Jeremy Dean

The Stones Project is tackling new challenges in deep water with innovative concepts. It takes a company like Shell to take on these challenges and then deliver the project safely.

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An SBM employee and a Shell employee observing the connection point for the buoy on the ship.

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Time lapse video of construction of the ship in a Singapore ship yard. Welders constructing the ship. A silhouette shot, during construction, of two men rising on a hydraulic lift behind a large opening in the bow of the ship. A series of shots of Shell supervisors talking to a construction workers. A crane barge lifting the large turret that is being installed as the buoy connection point on the ship. The buoy being lifted into the Gulf of Mexico from a ship. An aerial view directly overhead of the ship on location.

Narrator

To date, the Stones team has logged more than 22 million man-hours of work with an outstanding safety record; a testament to the commitment of the first class team that worked safely and responsibly to unlock energy resources in a new frontier.

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A view inside the moonpool of the ship where the buoy connects to the ship.

Ian Silk

The water depth that we’re working in is an extraordinary achievement. This is an industry that first moved offshore probably only really 30 years ago, so in 30 years we’ve gone from literally putting our toes into the water to producing from 10,000 feet of water depth. It’s totally amazing.

[Video footage]
An aerial of the Turritella on location in the water of the Stones field with two smaller support ships nearby.

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Transition from the end of the theme music to the Shell logo music.

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The Shell pecten on a white background

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Copyright Shell International Limited, 2016