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Title: Next Generation Shell Argina and Shell Gadinia

Duration: 01:30

Description:

Interview footage and accompanying animations to promote Shell Argina S5 and Shell Gadinia S3.

Next Generation Shell Argina and Shell Gadinia

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 Protecting engines and keeping the oceans open for business

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Marcus Schaerer, Global Marketing Manager Marine, Shell Marine

[Marcus Schaerer]

The shipping industry is quite diverse. I mean, medium-speed trunk piston engines you find in the smallest shipping vessels and in the biggest cruise ships on this planet. Hence, there are obviously a lot of different challenges. What is surely similar for all segments is a big focus on cost.

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Richard Holdsworth, Global Marketing and Product Development Manager, Marine and Power Engine Oils

[Richard Holdsworth]

And at the same time they are facing a storm of changes in terms of legislation. So, recently, the IMO has has confirmed that in 2020 there will be a sulphur cap of 0.5%, but that is just the latest in the wave of changes.

[Marcus Schaerer]

The whole Shell Argina and Gadinia range has always been a very appreciated and high-performing series of lubricants. Nevertheless, we talk to OEMs and we talk to our customers and we realise that the next generation of engines will work with higher temperatures, will work with higher pressure and might require a different and new oil.

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John Schakel, Global Product Application Specialist, Marine

[John Schakel]

The modern engines have a higher brake mean effective pressure, and higher maximum combustion pressures, and the sumps are smaller. On top of that the oil consumption of the engines is smaller to reduce emissions which means that a smaller amount of oil needs to do more work.

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Luis Garcia, Technology Manager, Marine and Power Engine Oils

[Luis Garcia]

The development process, of course you can do it quickly, but maybe it would not be very good.

You probably need, let us say, one year of proving ideas, concepts, testing for new components or looking at the chemistries, and base oils, and the combinations to see how you improve either oxidation stability or thermal stress stability – the many different aspects that you can see in single laboratory tests.

But one thing that Shell does, and it is key, it is really key and pretty much unique in the industry, is that we have an engine lab. With this testing, you really ensure that when you go into the field, you will have a success story.

[Marcus Schaerer]

We are very happy that we have a close relationship with a number of customers who trust us so much that they offer their assets for our testing. Besides this, this is obviously done in close relationships with OEMs.

[Luis Garcia]

With the new Shell Argina S5, were have really created a product which is stronger in these aspects, that consumes alkalinity reserves slower, and that prevents fast thickening. With this we will enable customers to use less oil.

[Marcus Schaerer]

Shell Gadinia S3 has a number of benefits for our customers. First of all, it is a high-performing lubricant that, especially on smaller ships, can more or less be used for all applications on the ship.

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High-Performing Lubricant

All Applications

[Marcus Schaerer]

 So it not only reduces complexity and reduces cost, it also makes the life of the people on board much simpler.

[Luis Garcia]

At least 300,000 litres of test oil have been used. And all this testing has not been done only for the sake of testing, I mean it has been done together with the customers for helping their operations. Customers are already talking about, how, in some cases, they see how with the new Shell Gadinia they consume less oil. We have one of the trials consuming I think in some days up to 20 litres less oil a day compared to their previous situation.

[John Schakel]

The benefits that customers see of using new Shell Gadinia S3 is that they have cleaner engines, they have a lower oil consumption and, because of the application in the gearbox, they have less oil onboard.

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Cleaner Engines

Lower Oil Consumption

Less Oils Onboard

[Richard Holdsworth]

Over the past year while we’ve been running field trials, we have seen excellent performance from the new Shell Gadinia in engines operating in marine applications. Particularly, we have been very, very pleased about its performance in terms of lacquer control, in terms of engine cleanliness, and in terms of wear performance.

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Lacquer control

Engine cleanliness

Wear performance

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