Lubricants for Wind Power
Powering progress with more and cleaner energy solutions.
Wind turbines operate in some of the most remote locations in the world, where engineers battle extreme conditions to ensure equipment is operating at the highest levels. In a highly competitive market where renewable energy is essential to today’s energy mix, gains in productivity and efficiency can make a significant impact on a company’s bottom line.
Shell offers an advanced portfolio of products and services for the Wind industry. With more than 20 years of experience in onshore and offshore wind development, we are a strategic partner helping businesses optimise their operations – every step of the way.
The complete Shell offer for Wind
Learn about Shell’s comprehensive lubricant and service portfolio for Wind and how we can support your operation.
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A lubricant maintenance toolkit for the Wind industry to help you prevent equipment failure and increase productivity.
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Wind Lubricants Offer - Shell Lubricant Solutions
Wind Lubricants Offer - Shell Lubricant Solutions
Title: Wind Lubricants Offer - Shell Lubricant Solutions
Duration: 0:56 seconds
Description:
This video highlights and celebrates the success of Shell Lubricant Solutions, showcasing their range of innovative offerings.
Wind Lubricants Offer - Shell Lubricant Solutions Video Transcript
[Background music plays]
Rhythmic, drum-led music plays throughout.
[Animated sequence]
The film opens with a collage of photographic images which all move rapidly around the screen. The prominent individual shots show a section of an electricity pylon against a blue sky, a closeup of the rotor hub of a wind turbine, a large agricultural machine at work in a furrowed green field, a closeup of metal cogs from the gearbox of a wind turbine, and a giant red digger at work in a dusty quarry.
The collage of shots freezes and is covered by a screen of orangey-yellow, the shade used in the Shell logo. A large hashtag sign and the numeral one appear, acting as a window to show sections of the photo collage, as if it lay behind the yellow screen. To the right of the hashtag one sign, words appear incrementally that read,
[Text displays]
Global lubricant supplier for 18 years in a row
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followed by an asterisk. At the bottom of the screen, very small and heralded by an asterisk, are the words,
[Text displays]
Kline and Company 2024, twenty-second Edition Global Lubricants Market Analysis and Assessment 2023.
[Visuals]
The yellow panel slides swiftly to the left, until it covers slightly less than half of the screen. On it, in black lettering, appear the words,
[Text displays]
20 plus years in offshore and onshore wind development.
[Visuals]
To the right of the yellow panel is a shot of the upper portion of a wind turbine at sea, which bears the Shell logo, the shape of a scallop shell with the outline and ribs in red, with an orangey-yellow inlay. There are three more turbines visible in the distance.
From below, the reverse screen appears, with the yellow panel on the right-hand side and on the left a grey and green graphic of a wind turbine and dwarfed trees standing on an undulating field of graph paper. In white lettering are the words,
[Text displays]
And a complete portfolio of lubricants for wind turbines.
[Visuals]
On the yellow panel to the right of the screen, scrolling vertically upwards, is a list of Shell products, the lettering rendered and coloured according to each product’s marketing image, but with the word, Shell, always in red. The list reads,
[Text displays]
Shell Omala, Shell Rhodina, Shell Gadus, Shell Tellus, Shell Panolin, Shell Midel, Shell Diala.
[Visuals]
While this list scrolls upwards, the graphic panel on the left side of the screen pans upwards and sideways to reveal an open-section view of a turbine’s gearbox and generator, and then drops downwards along one of the rotor blades of the turbine.
The yellow form of the Shell logo expands from the centre of the screen, resolving to leave a yellow panel once more on the left side of the screen, on which appears, in dark lettering, the words,
[Text displays]
17,000 plus wind turbines rely on Shell Omala S5 Wind 320.
[Visuals]
Beneath these words is a dark-grey canister bearing the Shell logo and the words,
[Text displays]
Omala S5 Wind 320.
[Visuals]
On the right side of the screen, three wind turbines revolve in a landscape of flat fields and a cloudy sky. The shot pulls slowly backwards and downwards.
Once more the outline of the Shell logo emerges and expands, evaporating to show a dark sky of heavy clouds and rain, lit up by numerous lightning flashes. In white lettering to the left side of this skyscape are the words,
[Text displays]
Blade Bearing Greases.
[Visuals]
And beneath, in slightly smaller lettering, the words,
[Text displays]
Outperforms the competition with high water contamination.
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These words are followed by an asterisk, which in turn heralds the words in small lettering at the bottom left of the screen,
[Text displays]
Testing by Fraunhofer IWES against two leading competitor greases.
[Visuals]
To the right of the screen, again superimposed on the thundery sky, is a dark grey canister embossed with the Shell logo and the words, Shell Gadus, above a white panel bearing fine print. To the right of the canister is a dark grey tube, standing vertically and of almost equal height, emblazoned with the Shell logo and a red label bearing the yellow vertical lettering, Shell Rhodina. Beneath this, in white uppercase, the letters BBZ.
As lightning continues across the dark sky, the camera moves gradually closer to the superimposed writing and accompanying products.
The dark sky is then dispelled by another expanding shell shape appearing from centre of screen, which resolves to a full orangey-yellow screen. In the centre of this appears a dark grey canister bearing the Shell logo and the words, Tellus S4 VE 32. The canister rapidly moves to the right of screen, and on the left-hand side appear the words, in dark lettering,
[Text displays]
Tellus S4 VE 42 Hydraulic Fluid.
[Visuals]
Beneath this, in slightly larger lettering, the words,
[Text displays]
Over 10 year oil life,
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with the words, 10 year, emphasised by yet larger lettering. An asterisk at the end points to the words at bottom left, in small lettering,
[Text displays]
Results may vary. See Shell dot com forward slash wind hyphen hydraulics for full disclaimer.
[Visuals]
The wording on the left slowly rises up the screen, while the canister on the right slowly drops down the screen. This movement is suddenly accelerated as the yellow background is split and replaced by a white one.
At the top left of the screen is a slowly revolving doughnut pie chart, coloured predominantly in dark green, with about 30 percent in yellow, and with a small section, roughly five percent, in red. At top right of the screen appear three small circles in colours matching those of the pie chart. First, at bottom-most, a dark-green circle appears, surrounding a tick sign. Then a yellow circle above this, surrounding an exclamation mark. Then above this, a red circle surrounding an X.
At the top of the screen, centrally positioned, is the Shell logo and the uppercase words, Shell Lubricant Solutions. Beneath this, in larger black lettering, the words,
[Text displays]
Oil condition monitoring from over 9,848 turbine samples.
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The number 9,848, which is rendered in larger lettering, rapidly scrolls through incrementally higher numbers until it settles on the number 65,000, so that the final wording reads,
[Text displays]
Oil condition monitoring from over 65,000 turbine samples.
[Visuals]
Beneath this wording, two graph lines grow from the left of screen to the right. One line is red, one is yellow. As they spread to the right, they are punctuated by plotting points, and the two lines cross each other at various points.
The white screen then disappears to the left, to be replaced by a desktop computer monitor sitting on an office desk. In the background is a blurred open-plan office, with further desks, lamps and computer monitors. At the top of the screen, in large white lettering, are the words,
[Text displays]
Wind Tech Academy.
[Visuals]
Displayed on the computer monitor, at centre top, is an image of a man in a yellow high-visibility gilet, hard hat and protective glasses. He is seen through a white frame, and behind him are wind turbines set on a grassy hillside. To the right of this image is the Shell logo and the words,
[Text displays]
Shell Wind Tech Academy.
[Visuals]
To the left of the image are the words, in black lettering,
[Text displays]
A free virtual learning platform.
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Beneath are the words, in smaller lettering, training modules, and beneath that two option boxes are visible. The view on the computer monitor scrolls downwards to reveal a further option box and the top section of a contact form. A mouse cursor appears and moves to hover over the top left of the option boxes.
From the bottom of screen, this display is replaced by a yellow panel on the left side, bearing the words,
[Text displays]
With our scale, technical and logistical capabilities,
[Visuals]
while on the right side of the screen appears a photographic collage of laboratory and technical workers, all moving in slow motion as the individual images themselves move around the right-hand side of the screen. All the workers in indoor settings are wearing red lab coats and protective glasses. Two male workers in an outdoor setting, a refinery behind them, are wearing red high-visibility coats and hard hats and protective glasses.
The mobile photo collage and yellow panel are then displaced from the right by a scene of five people, four men and a woman, walking away from the base of a wind turbine that’s set in flat countryside. Behind them, a short metal stair leads to a door at the base of the turbine tower. The light in the sky suggests a fine summer evening. The two men on the right are wearing white hard hats and yellow high-visibility gilets, while the woman and two men on the left are wearing orange hard hats and orange high-visibility gilets. One of them has climbing equipment slung about him. The man at far right is talking and gesticulating, and the woman nods her head in response.
As they walk forward, above them in white lettering appear the words,
[Text displays]
It’s how we help make you,
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And then, in large white uppercase letters, the word,
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Unstoppable.
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As they walk further forwards, some of the superimposed lettering is itself superimposed by the head of the man walking on the left.
At this point, the rhythmic music stops, and there is a simple five-note jingle as the screen goes white, bearing the Shell logo to the left, and to the right of that, in uppercase letters of red and dark blue, the words,
[Text displays]
Shell lubricant solutions.
Shell in the Global Wind Industry
As an owner and supplier to the Global Wind industry, Shell takes seriously the responsibility to use our position as a force for good. Our membership and involvement in key industry groups allows us help chart the path forward for Wind.
