Title: That Split Second
Duration: 4:31 minutes
CPN - 3232
Description:
A short film comprising footage, animation and graphics that helps us understand how data & technology will make us safer and more productive, and will enable us to tackle the challenges faced by our industry. There are many priorities competing for business decision makers’ time and money, but the technology exists today that can deliver the kind of value that creates a step change on targets such as Shell’s Goal Zero ambition: no harm, no leaks..
[visuals]
Film opens on an establishing wide shot of a large production refinery asset.
[background music plays]
music tension track builds anticipation
[visuals]
Same location, as the wide shot changes to ground level and a truck drives along the service road in the refinery.
[text on screen]
Dramatization
[visuals]
the scene changes to a walking point of view shot from worker’s point of view:
[male voice]
Roger that...I’m at the propane unit now prepping our gear to make a line cut ...looks like the permit was written on the last shift. ...am I good to go?...
[visuals]
POV footage moves closer to a pipe rack, and one of the pipes has permit tags on it to demarcate a work area. We return to the opening view of the refinery aerial.
[background music plays]
music builds tension
[sound effects]
tools sounds, grinder metal saw cut sounds are heard, then we hear explosion
[visuals]
we see a simulated (special effects) explosion around an area of pipe racks.
The scene fades to white.
[Narrator ]
Serious incidents are rare... and yet, they happen.
[background music plays]
Music picks up the pace in a serious determined tone with a building tempo.
[visuals]
We transition to a motion graphics montage that takes us through simulated accident reports and analysis, with words on screen: “incident analysis; ignition source: angle grinder, corrective actions”. The montage happens quickly.
[Narrator]
When something goes wrong...we analyse, we train, we improve.
[visuals]
The next scene shows a group of workers in a meeting room around a smart board.
Then a montage of operations from around Shell, workers in red coveralls on asset locations, as well as engineers at smart boards in offices.
[Narrator]
We try to catch issues before they catch us.
But humans are not perfect.
And when it comes to safety performance, it’s as if we’ve hit a plateau.
[visuals]
Footage of Shell workers in slow-motion,
[graphics]
overlaid on footage we see animated graph lines show measure of incidents are declining, then plateauing.
[visuals]
Reprise imagery from opening scenes with worker approaching pipe rack to make line cut.
[Narrator]
Something is missing in that split second before an incident occurs.
[text on screen]
That Split Second
[visuals]
footage that shows workers on an IG (Integrated Gas) production asset.
[text on screen]
Goal Zero
no harm - no leaks
[visuals]
sunset over refinery tanks
[Narrator]
Our safety ambition is Goal Zero -- no harm and no leaks -- Can that be possible?
[background music plays]
New music creates a sense of something new, curiosity, more optimistic; in contrast to opening scenes.
[visuals]
We see reprise of aerial footage of refinery, and point-of-view footage of worker from opening scenes.
Footage playing backwards of drone establishing shot…
Then footage of worker POV level…
[graphics]
We see animated data overlaid on the footage; the data is an inchoate jumble of numbers, in groupings, indecipherable, and suggests data hidden everywhere -- but not accessible or usable.
[male voice]
I’m at the propane unit prepping our gear to make a line cut ...am I good to go?...
[visuals]
Point of view footage as worker walks along work deck
[graphics]
Overlay the perspective of a pair of Augmented Reality glasses built into worker eye wear, and the scene is transformed. The data looks more organized and grouped into graphs and charts and thresholds on various parts of the screen. Data becomes visible around the worker.
[visuals]
When worker arrives at pipe rack for work, we see augmented reality outlines around the pipes.
[female voice]
I detect high pressure in the selected line.
Separating this line could lead to vapour cloud release. Either there is a leak in the isolation valves or the wrong line is tagged for work. Stop and notify operations immediately.
[visuals]
pipe rack
[graphics]
The pipe with red outlines animated on it is viewed with some sort of composite “AR” visual that suggests it has been selected by our worker. A Red warning alert comes onto the worker’s point of view, showing that pressure is too high - with a number indicating “68 Bar”.
[sound effects]
warning alert signal
[animated sequence]
We transition to an entirely animated depiction of worker in a future digital technology world.
Worker makes an entry on tablet, and communicates with operator who appears real time on tablet screen video call.
[background music plays]
positive, building feeling
[Narrator]
Data is all around us.
Today's technology can help us make sense of that data, giving us the extra insight we need to keep ourselves out of harm's way.
[animated sequence]
We see a digital cube over the shoulder of the character, representing a sixth sense enabled by technology.
Our animated worker continues moving through the workspace with Augmented Reality data showing up over equipment.
[text on screen]
AUGMENTED REALITY
[animated sequence]
New overhead perspective in our animation.
transition to see an autonomous robot just finishing its completion of work at great height, completing the patch and paint job on a tank way above the worker's head.
[text on screen]
ROBOTICS
[animated sequence]
Animated drone comes into frame and hovers high above and scans a tank, detecting a leak in the floating seal;
[text on screen]
SMART DEVICES
[animated sequence]
Our animated worker checks things off on her work tablet, looking at the robot and drone doing this work at heights.
[Narrator]
Digital Technologies can help us avoid high risk situations, and help us see what we need to see, in real time…
[animated sequence]
We see an animated engineer at his computer, working with a digital twin of an offshore platform on his display
[text on screen]
DIGITAL TWIN
[animated sequence]
Next we see an animated Deep Water offshore platform, and plunge below the water to deep water depths to see a subsea pump with data points overlaid on it.
[female voice]
Analytics algorithm indicates anomaly in caisson D. Forecasting shutdown in 2 days. Take corrective action.
[animated sequence]
We see animated deep water operator at the control panel.
[text on screen]
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
[animated sequence]
Animation zooms out to global view to convey the idea that data is shared across Shell in real time. Then we see a room of managers discussing, an asset operator presenting, and we see a data graph with results moving in a positive direction.
[Narrator]
They give us a window on digital realities for operations and training.
[animated sequence]
Transition to animation of worker wearing oculus VR headsets, and then the animation takes us inside the world that the worker sees -- a 3D world training session on dropped objects;
[text on screen]
VIRTUAL REALITY
[female voice]
You successfully retrieved all objects at risk of dropping. Your training is complete.
[animated sequence]
We then see our animated worker back on the job; worker looks up to an overhead work deck and notices several tools and some pipe material left precariously overhead and senses danger. Our character goes up and stows tools and material in a bucket.
[Narrator]
Digitalisation makes us safer and more productive.
Today, it’s our superpower...
[animated sequence]
We see our frontline worker surrounded by an animated montage of the various digital technologies that we’ve seen used in this future digitalised world.
[background music plays]
Music is triumphant, imagery is positive. Then Music changes to a more sombre note.
[Narrator]
Look around Shell.
We have a long way to go on this journey.
[visuals]
We see imagery from around Shell world from Shell existing stock footage. Featuring Integrated Gas (IG) assets. Workers on site, and in control rooms and meeting rooms.
[Narrator]
Our industry faces fundamental challenges.
Our teams feel the pressure of competing priorities.
But if we lose momentum on digital transformation, we fall behind.
We need to increase collaboration with others in industry and technology -- and accelerate this journey.
[visuals]
We see a machine shop engineer scanning a piece of pump equipment with a 3D scanner.
[background music plays]
music positive and building
[Narrator]
We now see the pull from both management and the frontline.
[visuals]
We see a montage of footage from Shell assets showing workers in the field.
[Narrator]
Put technology in their hands...
and watch what happens.
[background music plays]
Music changes to uplifting, light, with a building tempo
[visuals]
We see footage of a group of frontline workers on site at a plant.
[female voice]
The new SiteWise device that we are using at Hazira is great. I work in maintenance, and I can find my co-workers so much faster when I need them. It’s such a relief.
[text on screen]
SiteWise
[visuals]
Next we see footage of a worker wearing a VR headset device.
We see footage from a height at an asset.
[male voice]
My first time utilizing the Oculus device, there was a tingling in my body, working at heights. It was on an offshore platform so I actually felt like I was offshore. It does change the way that you remember things. Practically doing that exercise it really helps compared to computer based training or powerpoint training.
[visuals]
Next we see a montage of images of workers at Pearl GTL in Qatar. Workers in the control room and in the exterior plant setting.
[male voice]
So with this integrated tool, we are getting real time if anything is shifting or deviating -- we can quickly connect with the team, and we will take a right decision at the right time. So this really makes me feel comfortable and confident.
[visuals]
We see a montage of Shell workers at various assets, and some are shown with a digital cube on their shoulder, as we saw earlier on the shoulder of the animated character.
[Narrator]
This journey is about human value.
The transformation has started.
We must continue looking for ways to easily access the technology needed to get value from our data -- to make OUR lives a lot safer and more productive.
[visuals]
We see more images of Shell workers at work.
Then imagery of a highway and setting sun horizon.
[graphics]
We see animated graphics that reprise the plateau we saw early in the film, and this time the plateau line begins to decrease, indicating further progress toward goal zero.
[Narrator]
That is how we will push past our human limits to close the gap on Goal Zero.
[visuals]
The film finishes with an image of a worker looking out over a Shell asset, with digital cube over his shoulder.
[background music ends]
Shell brand mnemonic plays
The Shell pecten logo appears.
WE see two disclaimer pages, regarding social distancing and a legal disclaimer.
