Technology for a net-zero energy future
Technological innovation plays a crucial role in the development of cleaner energy solutions and in our transition to become a net-zero emissions energy business by 2050.
Featured video: Shell's Industrial Electrification Technology Programme
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Title: Shell EoD
Duration: 4:51 minutes
Description:
Shell employees talk about the energy transition programmes they are working on.
Shell EoD Transcript
[Background music plays]
Exciting music.
[Animated sequence]
People working in an industrial lab. Then an aerial shot of a forest on which a yellow shell shape appears. Inside the shape in white and yellow letters, text appears.
[Text displays]
Climate targets.
Key areas for energy transition technology.
Voice-over
We have launched some of our largest R&D programmes in support of Shell's climate targets, covering some of the key areas for energy transition technology.
[Text displays]
Industrial electrification.
[Animated sequence]
An animation of several ways of industrial electrification, using solar panels, windmills, and water. This is followed by shots of solar farms, factories, a forest, and a shell employee on a boat.
Voice-over
Electrifying industrial processes is one of them. Using renewable electricity to produce consumer goods, steel or cement is paramount to achieving net zero emissions. We are developing end-to-end solutions for the electrification of Shell's own assets and those of our customers.
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Panthita Boonchou appears on the screen. She is a woman with dark, straight hair that reaches her shoulders. She is wearing a white shirt and a green jacket. She sits before a calm brown and green background at the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam.
[Title]
Electro-Thermal Programme Lead.
Panthita Boonchou
Electrification of processes that require heat is an important step of the decarbonization efforts for the industry.
It is estimated that today with the fuel consumed in industry today as energy about half can be replaced with electricity.
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Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam (ETCA).
About half can be replaced with electricity. Source: McKinsey.
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Jeremy Pearce is at the Shell Technology Center Houston. He is a man with short, dark hair with a shaved face. He is wearing a light pink shirt with a black suit jacket.
[Title]
Electrification of Demand Programme Manager
Jeremy Pearce
The Electrification of Demand Technology programme is one of Shell's largest technology programmes. It has the ambition to decarbonise industrial sites through electrification. The industry represents about 30% of total global energy demand and about 90% of that is currently supplied through fossil fuels. The EOD technology programme is looking at new innovative solutions to help decarbonise our assets by using low-carbon renewable power.
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Industry = 30% of global energy demand. 90% of that is supplied through fossil fuels. Source: International Energy Agency.
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A moving shot through a terrain with white shipping containers lined up. On the shipping containers it says ‘ENERGY STORAGE’ in blue letters. Elizabeth Endler is at the Shell Technology Center Houston. She is a woman with half-long brown hair, and she is wearing glasses with a fine, brown rim. She is wearing black clothes.
[Title]
Chief Scientist Energy Storage and Integration
Elizabeth Endler
Energy storage is a central part of the energy transition. And we need energy storage to be able to fill in the gaps when the wind is not blowing, and the sun is not shining. This becomes increasingly important as more wind and solar come online and fuel-fired generation is retired. In fact, over 475 gigawatts of battery energy storage is predicted to come online by 2030.
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475+ gigawatts of battery energy storage is predicted to come online by 2030.
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A wide shot of the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam, a set of modern red-brick buildings. Ilsa Maria Sillekens appears. She is a woman with light brown, straight hair that reaches her shoulders. She is wearing a bright pink shirt with long sleeves; glasses with a slim, silver rim; golden hoop earring; a golden chain necklace. She is speaking directly into the camera at first. Then, she appears in meetings with other people. This is followed by shots of data in numbers on a screen.
[Title]
Digital Electricity Management Programme Lead
Ilsa Maria Sillekens
In the changing energy system with renewable energy sources and all its intermittency, we have an opportunity to operate our industrial processes to react to that intermittency. Digital technologies really play a crucial role in enabling this, so they enable real-time decision making, and control at the site as well as integrate with, for example, the trading services to optimally integrate the entire power value chain.
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optimally integrate the entire power value chain.
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Panthita Boonchou is speaking straight into the camera. Shots of her are alternated with shots of an industrial lab where Panthita is at work with colleagues in white coats.
Panthita Boonchou
Collaboration is extremely important for innovation. For example, we're working closely together with Dow to develop electrification technologies for e-cracking process. E-cracking furnaces with renewable power has the potential to reduce scope 1 emission by about 90% compared to conventional furnaces. So at the Nanterre lubricants plant in Paris the site is installing an e-boiler at the end of this year. The subsequent system will allow the site to operate on both fuel and electricity to generate steam.
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Elizabeth Endler reappears. This is followed by an aerial shot of the lubricants plant in Zhuhai, China. It is a light, industrial terrain set in a green landscape. White smoke comes from one of the chimneys.
Elizabeth Endler
We also are demonstrating thermal energy storage at our lubricants plant in Zhuhai, China.
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Mark Klokkenburg appears speaking directly into the camera. He is a man with short, dark hair and he is wearing a light shirt.
[Title]
Electro-Chemical Programme Lead.
Mark Klokkenburg
So we're closely working together with the National Renewable Energy Lab who have a lot of expertise in this field. By closely working together, we can really tackle some of these challenges.
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we can really tackle some of these challenges.
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Andrea Watson appears at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Denver. It consists of buildings amidst a hilly landscape. Andrea has long, straight, dark hair. She is wearing a beige suit jacket.
[Title]
Office Director-Innovation, Partnering & Outreach
Andrea Watson
At NREL, partnerships are fundamental to our ability to address challenges that are of global significance. We work together with Shell in a number of strategically aligned areas including green hydrogen, e-mobility, offshore wind and carbon utilisation. In addition, through their knowledge, infrastructure, and capital, they are an ideal partner for us to make a bigger impact.
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People working on several industrial sites.
Jeremy Pearce
In industry, we're looking to decarbonise really difficult, hard-to-abate sectors such as cement, steel, chemicals, refining, and they need solutions that can offer abundant, low-carbon energy. Renewable power offers that opportunity, but it comes with challenges.
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Ilsa Maria walking down a hallway with Panthita Boonchou and other colleagues. Then they are in a conference room.
Ilsa Maria Sillekens
So our team is really a multidisciplinary team. So we really have a diverse blend of experts ranging from data scientists to product leads and from electrical engineers to utility and process engineers. But we also work very collaboratively across our technology hubs in Bangalore, Amsterdam, and Houston.
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Shell Tenchnology Center Bangalore.
Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam.
Shell Technology Center Houston.
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Elizabeth Endler speaks directly into the camera.
Jeremy Pearce
For me, as an engineer, working on problems at this scale, with this level of impact, that’s a lot of times just a really key thing. Because you want to know that what you do has impact.
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Ilsa Maria Sillekens discusses things with colleagues in a conference room. Then she speaks directly into the camera.
Ilsa Maria Sillekens
It's so much new stuff we need to learn every day. And working on the big puzzle that is going to connect all these technological elements whilst being able to potentially deliver such an impact is really exciting. So, I think it's a dream come true.
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Panthita Boonchou speaks directly into the camera.
Panthita Boonchou Sillekens
It's really exciting. It’s an interesting challenge and it's fun to be working with talented people who are passionate about the space.
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Quick shots of Elizabeth Endler, Jeremy Pearce, Mark Klokkenburg, Panthita Boonchou, and Ilsa Maria Sillekens. They are all smiling.
[Background music plays]
A short, bright piano tune.
[Animated sequence]
The Shell logo, a yellow, red-rimmed shell, appears before a white background. The appearance of the shell creates a ripple effect in the white background. ‘shell.com/tech’ is depicted in dark grey letters underneath the Shell logo.
Shell's scientists, researchers and engineers around the globe are working to develop, deploy and commercialise technologies that are vital in the transition to a low-carbon energy future. In 2023, we spent $1,287 million on research and development (R&D), compared with $1,067 million in 2022. From the total amount invested in 2023, about 49% of the total expenditure was on projects that contributed to decarbonisation. We also started work on more than 270 R&D projects with universities, compared with more than 250 in 2022. Find out more about our approach to sustainability and our performance data in our Sustainability Report.
Shell’s main technology programmes for decarbonisation
Committed to Shell’s climate targets, we have launched some of our largest research & development (R&D) programs, in the areas we foresee as key for energy transition technology, throughout the next decade. These include R&D around the areas of industrial electrification, hydrogen value chain, circularity & bio-feedstock and direct air capture, for example
Electrifying heat demand in industry
Industrial manufacturing represents roughly a third of overall global energy demand and 80-90% is currently supplied through fossil fuels. Electrifying industrial heat demand is paramount to achieving net-zero emissions in the energy system. At Shell, we have set up one of our largest technology development programs spanning 2022-2030 with the aim to decarbonise manufacturing with electricity. The program consists of five technology elements: electro-thermal, electro-chemical, heat and electricity storage, integrated process design, and digital electricity management. Through these projects, we seek to deploy multiple innovative and differentiated electrification solutions at scale in Shell projects by 2030 and to commercialise them in the longer term.
One such project of this major program is a collaboration between Shell and Dow in an experimental unit to electrically heat furnaces at the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam with renewable energy. Steam cracking is one of the most carbon-intensive processes in petrochemical production. Over time, the experimental unit will be used to test a theoretical electrification model for retrofitting today’s gas-fired furnaces. Data generated by the unit will be used to validate the model and allow the electrification programme to advance to the next phase: the design and construction of a multi-megawatt pilot plant, with potential start-up in 2025, subject to investment support. As per projections, this project could reduce Scope 1 emissions associated with cracking furnaces by 90% compared to conventional crackers.
Find out more about our work in electrifying heat demand here.
Hydrogen as a sustainable and competitive energy source
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Title: Shell Moonshot Hydro V6
Duration: 4:19 minutes
Description:
Several Shell employees talk about developments in the hydrogen supply chain at Shell.
Shell Moonshot Hydro Transcript
[Background music plays]
Bright music
[Animated sequence]
The Shell logo, a yellow red-rimmed shell, appears before a white background. This is followed by several shots of the earth, people working in a lab and office, trees, seas and animals.
Voice-over
Advancing cutting-edge technology plays a critical role in addressing the urgent challenge of climate change. It requires action from a variety of stakeholders, including companies, governments and individuals. Committed to Shell's Climate Targets, we launched four of our largest research and development programmes in the areas we foresee as key for energy transition technology.
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Animated drawings of four topics form a circle on a yellow background. The hydrogen value chain is portrayed as a drop of water, windmills are used to portray electrification of demand, grassy hills for nature-based solutions and a plastic water bottle in front of a sunflower for circular and bio-products.
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Climate Targets
Hydrogen Value Chain
Electrification of Demand
Nature-Based Solutions
Circular and Bio-Products
Visual transition
Shots of a Shell gas station where you can tank hydrogen and people working in sea transport environments and in offices and labs.
Voice-over
Hydrogen can be a game changer in the future energy mix. To develop hydrogen into an accessible, affordable, low-carbon energy solution, we are bringing together a vast global network of tech resources and partners with the ambitious goal of developing large-scale commercial projects.
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Hydrogen Value Chain
Shell Hydrogen
POWERED BY HYDROGEN
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Catherine Smura, a woman with half-long, straight, brown hair, is seated at the Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam.
[Text displays]
Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam - ETCA
[Title]
Technology Liaison Manager Hydrogen
Catherine Smura
To be ready for the adoption and growth of hydrogen as a renewable energy carrier, we need to close gaps with respect to the feasibility and the affordability of certain underlying technologies at scale. And that's exactly why we have the technology programme.
Visual transition
At the Shell Technology Centre Bangalore, Harshvardhan Choudhari speaks directly into the camera. He has short, dark hair, a beard and black-rimmed glasses.
[Text displays]
Shell Technology Centre Bangalore
[Title]
Process Technologist Renewable Hydrogen
Harshvardhan Choudhari
We work with the different teams within Shell and our technology partners to develop solutions for hydrogen generation, primarily via electrolysis. And our aim is to deliver an economically viable solution in the longer term for commercial deployment in line with Shell's energy transition strategy.
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Megawatt-scale Solide Oxide Electrolyser (SOEC) development with Ceres Power.
Decarbonising via low-cost, high-efficiency hydrogen.
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Jeff Martin, a man with short, dark blonde hair, is at the ETCA. When he speaks into the camera, he uses hand gestures. There are also shots of him at work, wearing a white safety helmet.
[Title]
SME Renewable Hydrogen Production
Jeff Martin
So being able to test and demonstrate these technologies is very important. For example, here at the Energy Transition Campus, Amsterdam, we have a renewable hydrogen supply chain demonstration where we have solar panels on the roof connected to an electrolyser and to two customers. With this, we can really understand the intermittencies and the dynamics at play, whether that's the day and night cycle of the renewable power generation, the continuous demand of an industrial customer, or the very discontinuous intermittent demand of a mobility customer. And how we can tie these together into one fully functioning system. And so a key driver for Shell is when we scale these technologies: how can we improve energy efficiency? How can we reduce the space? How can we reduce the cost? And overall, how can we get the technology ready for gigawatt-scale deployment to support society's growth?
Catherine Smura
As the demand for hydrogen grows, so does the need to be able to move it from countries that have abundant cost- effective renewables for its production to those that don't, but do have a high energy demand. And by liquifying hydrogen and moving it, we have an effective means to do that.
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World’s first liquified hydrogen carrier development with key players.
Shell Technology Center Houston
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Large, white, metal structures at sea. Then, Neeharika Rajagiri at Shell Technology Center Houston. She has long, black hair.
[Title]
Liquid Hydrogen Supply Chain Engineer
Neeharika Rajagiri
That brings us to the need of developing technology in the area of liquid hydrogen storage, where we formed a consortium between Shell, NASA, CB&I, GenH2 and the University of Houston.
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Demonstrating feasibility and cost-competitiveness of large scale liquified hydrogen tanks.
Visual transition
Charudatta Patil is a man with glasses and short, dark, curly hair.
[Title]
Renewable Hydrogen Manager
Charudatta Patil
We are piloting and demonstrating the technologies. Both low-temperature electrolysis and the novel technologies such as SOECs and AEM in different parts of the world. In our technology centres in Amsterdam and Bangalore but also with vendors in California and Northern China.
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Holland Hydrogen 1 will be Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant: producing 60,000 kg per day.
Visual transition
Aerial shots of the future Holland Hydrogen 1. It’s an area by the sea that now looks sandy. An animation draws a circular building on the lot.
Jeff Martin
So in realising a project like Holland Hydrogen 1, there are many novelties to deal with from the very small scale through to the macro scale.
Neeharika Rajagiri
I feel privileged to work as part of such a complex and impactful programme. There are not many places where you get this opportunity to work with leading, pioneering engineering organisations and top-notch universities to solve one common problem together towards a cleaner energy future.
Catherine Smura
It feels good and definitely exciting to be working on something today that will have an impact on the energy future.
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One by one, Catherine, Charudatta, Neeharika and Harshvardhan appear smiling into the camera.
[Animated sequence]
The Shell logo, a yellow red-rimmed shell, appears before a white background.
[Background music plays]
A short, bright piano tune.
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Hydrogen can be a game-changer in the future energy landscape, potentially playing a significant role in helping the world reach a net-zero emissions energy system. Because hydrogen has a high energy density, it is especially suitable for hard-to-electrify sectors like heavy-duty transport, heavy industry, shipping, and aviation.
At Shell, we are positioned to be at the forefront of this transformational journey. Recognising hydrogen’s potential and the several cross-business opportunities it presents, we have launched a dedicated technology program with the ambitious goal of developing commercial projects of a similar scale as our refineries and chemical parks of today. We are working globally on innovative technologies across the entire hydrogen value chain – from production to storage, transport, and use – to develop hydrogen into an accessible, affordable low-carbon fuel for transport, a feedstock for chemicals and as a solution to store energy in integrated energy systems.
R&D focuses on the key underlying technologies through which hydrogen is likely to unlock more, cleaner energy solutions. We identify and develop these technologies in close cooperation with a variety of distinguished third parties. Thus, our program focusses on five technology areas: renewable hydrogen production via large-scale electrolyser; liquefaction and insulation for transport; high-capacity underground storage and long-distance pipelines; de-risking hydrogen production via methane pyrolysis; and deployment of decarbonised hydrogen projects at scale (with CCS).
In India, Shell has partnered with Ceres Power to deliver a megawatt scale solid oxide electrolyser (SOEC) demonstrator in 2023. The partnership aims to use SOEC technology to deliver high-efficiency, low-cost renewable hydrogen. Our aim is to produce hydrogen at efficiencies around 20% greater than other technologies, with the goal of achieving a market-leading levelised cost of hydrogen by 2025. The system will be installed at the Shell Technology Centre Bangalore, where the renewable hydrogen will be used in industrial processes on site.
Yuri Sebregts, Shell’s CTO and EVP Technology“The differentiated SOEC technology has the potential to produce hydrogen at an optimum cost and efficiency profile. The pilot and collaboration with Ceres are a step forward in maturing this promising technology towards industrial scale.”
In 2022, we took a final investment decision to build a 200MW electrolyser, Holland Hydrogen I, in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The decarbonised hydrogen produced from the electrolyser will be used in our Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, with the surplus hydrogen going to our hydrogen retail network.
Along with our partners in the CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association (HySTRA), we are developing technologies to transport large volumes of liquid hydrogen by sea. The world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier – the Suiso Frontier – completed its maiden voyage, sailing from Japan to Australia at the end of 2021, where it was loaded with liquified hydrogen before returning to Japan in early 2022.
Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant
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Title: Shell - Hydrogen Announcement
Duration: 00:55
Description: Shell - Hydrogen announcement transcript
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Shell is building Europe’s largest electrolyser in the Netherlands
[Video footage]
Aerial shot of Holland Hydrogen I (HHI), plus yellow hydrogen icon.
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The Holland Hydrogen project will produce hydrogen using renewable energy
[Video footage]
Ground shot of HHI.
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The hydrogen produced can be used to power industry and heavy-duty transport
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Shots of industry machinery and trucks on road.
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Hydrogen has a key role to play in helping the world reach net-zero emissions
[Video displays]
General shots of hydrogen station.
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And we are doing our part to stimulate supply and demand of this versatile form of energy
[Video footage]
Shot of hydrogen vehicle being fuelled.
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At Shell, our target is to become a net-zero emission energy business by 2050
[Video footage]
Footage of wind turbine, plus three-way split screen of recharge station, boat and Shell employee.
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As part of our strategy we aim to be a global leader in hydrogen
[Video footage]
Shot of hydrogen pump.
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We already own and operate around 10% of the world’s electrolyser capacity
And we are investing and growing other parts of the hydrogen value chain
[Video footage]
Rheinland electrolyser shot, plus footage of truck.
[Shell endboard with logo and legal disclaimer]
#PoweringProgress
Shell’s operating plan, outlook and budgets are forecasted for a ten-year period and are updated every year. They reflect the current economic environment and what we can reasonably expect to see over the next ten years. Accordingly, Shell’s operating plans, outlooks, budgets and pricing assumptions do not reflect our net-zero emissions target. In the future, as society moves towards net-zero emissions, we expect Shell’s operating plans, outlooks, budgets and pricing assumptions to reflect this movement.
© Shell International Limited 2022
Suiso Frontier: World's First Liquefied Hydrogen Carrier
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Title: Suiso Frontier: World's First Liquefied Hydrogen Carrier
Duration: 2:18 minutes
Description:
A film narrating how Shell, together with its partners, safely delivered the world’s first hydrogen shipment through the HySTRA project.
HySTRA – The dawn of a new era Transcript
Introduction
[Background music plays]
Powerful & cinematic music plays
[Video Footage]
Open on a wide drone shot of a large ship docked at the end of a jetty.
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Suiso Frontier
[Voice over]
The first voyage of the Suiso Frontier signals the dawn of a new era.
[Video Footage]
Low shot of the back of the Suiso Frontier ship whilst still being built in a dock. There are cranes and workers around.
[Voice over]
This 8,000 ton vessel is
[Text displays]
8,000 ton vessel
[Video Footage]
A wide shot of a lorry tank that carries liquified hydrogen. People in hard hats and hi-vis jackets walk by.
[Voice over]
transporting liquified hydrogen
[Video Footage]
Drone shot of the Suiso Frontier leaving the port in which it was built for the first time.
[Voice over]
across the world
[Video Footage]
Drone shot of the port side of the boat out in the open ocean.
[Voice over]
in conditions of -253°C
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-253°C
[Video Footage]
Drone shot of the starboard side of the boat out in an estuary.
[Voice over]
only 20 degrees above absolute zero.
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Absolute zero
[Background music plays]
Uplifting music plays
[Animated sequence]
A map of the world, zoomed into Australia. A location icon animates on and shows Hastings, Australia. A dotted line animates onto the screen coming out from the port of hastings and travelling up and across the ocean to Kobe, Japan, where another location icon animates with Kobe, Japan text being displayed.
[Voice over]
This epic journey from Japan to Australia and back is a world first and represents a milestone of technological innovation.
[Video Footage]
Pan past a Hydrogen pump at a Shell fuel station that displays Shell Hydrogen on it.
[Voice over]
Hydrogen will play a crucial role
[Video Footage]
Hydrogen fuelled lorry pulls up to the Hydrogen pump at a Shell fuel station that displays Shell Hydrogen on it.
[Voice over]
in the energy transition.
[Video Footage]
Close up of a Hydrogen fuel pump connecting to the lorry
[Voice over]
It produces only water
[Video Footage]
Wider shot of 2 people standing by a Hydrogen bus that is being refuelled at a Shell Hydrogen pump, they are both smiling.
[Voice over]
as an emission,
[Video Footage]
Shot underneath a lorry that shows the liquid water emission dripping onto the road.
[Voice over]
so it will help customers and industries
[Video Footage]
Lorry turning a corner, camera is mounted on the trailer looking forward to the cab as it turns.
[Voice over]
decarbonize around the world.
[Video Footage]
Drone shot of a bus driving up a long curved road surrounding by tall trees and a green landscape.
Scene transition. Hydrogen’s as a fuel and Shell’s Expertise.
[Video Footage]
Scene switches to inside, where we have our first stakeholder interview. Paul Bogers is sitting in a chair on the right with a small lamp table next to him on the screen’s left that has a light and some books on it.
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Paul Bogers. VP, Hydrogen
[Paul Bogers]
Through the HySTRA project, with our partners, we have proven that global shipping of hydrogen is possible.
[Video Footage]
Various shots of the outside of the boat, Susio Frontier crew checking parts of the boat, cranes lifting items on board
[Paul Bogers]
This demonstration is a significant step towards developing a global hydrogen supply chain and
[Video Footage]
Returns to inside where Paul is sitting in the chair.
[Paul Bogers]
enabling hydrogen to play a major role in the global energy transition.
[Video Footage]
Suiso Frontier working in the engine room, operating the ship through pressing buttons. They are
[Voice over]
Shell’s expertise in transporting liquefied natural gas
[Video Footage]
Wide low shot of the stern of the ship being moved with a tug boat in port.
[Voice over]
underpins the success of HySTRA.
[Video Footage]
Shot of lorry fuelling station for transporting liquefied hydrogen
[Voice over]
Transporting hydrogen requires cryogenics and extensive safety measures.
[Video Footage]
Close up of crew member turning knob of technical looking piece of equipment with pressure gauges.
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Close up of crew member using large wrenches to tighten bolt on cooling equipment outside.
[Video Footage]
Wide shot of two members of crew checking hydrogen filling equipment outside. They. One has a clipboard and is crouching to view a gauge.
[Video Footage]
Scene switches to inside, where we have our second stakeholder interview. Karrie Trauth is sitting on a chair at a desk with a large window behind her.
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Karrie Trauth. SVP, Shipping and Maritime
[Karrie Trauth]
Shell’s role in the HySTRA project is deploying our technical capabilities for the safe transport of liquid hydrogen and to enable import export potential.
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Various shots of safety measures on the ship. Hanging up gas masks with oxygen tanks attached, hard hats, safety goggles and crew checking on equipment across the ship with torches.
[Karrie Trauth]
We followed a stringent safety assurance process to ensure the vessel is safe for Shell crew to operate.
[Video Footage]
Shot returns to Karrie Trauth at her desk.
[Karrie Trauth]
Because this is an industry first, we have also guided
[Video Footage]
Cuts to various shots of the crew, logging data in binders talking on their walkie talkies and to each other.
[Karrie Trauth]
the development of safety standards and codes for liquid hydrogen for the International Maritime Organization.
[Video Footage]
Extreme close up shot of a red boiler suit being worn by a crew member. The Shell logo and a Second Officer badge are in focus.
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Scene switches to inside, where we have our third stakeholder interview. Yoshida,Yasuko is sitting on a chair at a desk with a large bookcase behind her the edge of a computer screen and phone in the foreground.
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Yasuko, Yoshida. Country Chair and GM, Shell Japan Ltd.
[Yasuko, Yoshida]
This is the culmination of a deep collaboration with partners & government and is a world first.
[Video Footage]
Cuts to wide shot of the Suiso Frontier moving through the water from right to left, with 2 tugboats directing it.
[Yasuko, Yoshida]
We are proud of what has been achieved through
[Video Footage]
Cuts back to Yasuko, Yoshida at her desk.
[Yasuko, Yoshida]
Shell’s in-depth knowledge and our long-term relationship with Japan.
[Video Footage]
Japanese flag, attached to the back of the boat flying in the wind.
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Two crew members standing on the dock, far back from the boat pointing at it.
[Yasuko, Yoshida]
The learnings from the pilot will form the basis
[Video Footage]
Wide drone shot encircling the ship as it is moored on a jetty. You can see far into the distance.
[Yasuko, Yoshida]
for further work towards the development of a
[Video Footage]
Cuts back to Yasuko, Yoshida at her desk.
[Yasuko, Yoshida]
large-scale marine transport supply chain for hydrogen.
Scene transition. Ending
[Video Footage]
Ship’s officers looking out over the water from the helm and pointing.
[Voice over]
This is a positive step on the path to powering progress.
[Video Footage]
Four of the ship’s crew in the engine room, wearing boiler suits and laughing together.
[Video Footage]
Three of the ship’s crew, including a chef, in the canteen eating, talking and smiling.
[Video Footage]
Two officers and a crew member reviewing documentation and maps in the helm and smiling.
[Video Footage]
Wide drone shot encircling the ship as it is moored on a jetty. You can see far into the distance.
[Voice over]
Shell believes in the important role that decarbonized hydrogen can play in helping the world get to net zero.
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Shot of the stern and port side of the boat, that pans up to reveal the sky.
[Visual]
Shell Pecten appears over the top of the footage in the centre
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© Shell International Limited 2022
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Shell Mnemonic
In the USA, a Shell-led consortium of leading US companies and research institutions was selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop large-scale liquid hydrogen storage technology . The aim of the project is to develop the technologies needed to create a commercially viable international supply chain for decarbonised hydrogen.
Find out more about Shell’s Hydrogen business here
Renewable and sustainable fuels
In 2021 we took a final investment decision to build one of Europe’s biggest biofuels plants at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The facility will use advanced process technology and catalysts developed by Shell to produce up to 820,000 tonnes a year of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel from industrial and agricultural residual products. A facility of this size could produce enough renewable diesel to avoid 2.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, the equivalent of taking more than 1 million European cars off the roads.
Huibert Vigeveno, Shell’s Downstream Director"This announcement is a key part of the transformation of one of our major refineries into an energy and chemicals park, which will supply customers with the low-carbon products they want and need."
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Title: Shell Pernis Biofuels
Duration: 2.23 minute
Description:
Shell is investing in a new facility in Pernis to take steps towards cleaner energy. With this video, Shell briefly tells us what to expect with the new techniques to realize biofuels in Pernis.
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In the images you can see Shell's refinery. The entire industrial area can be seen. The first installation shows Shell's logo next to a large pride flag. The image switches to an employee who is monitoring all the systems on more than twenty computer screens. He is wearing a red overalls.
[Voice-over, female voice with a neutral Dutch accent]
"Shell is going to invest in a large biofuels plant."
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One can see how a car drives onto the site in the middle of the large installations. The car drives into one of the halls where it enters a dark space in which rectangular neon-colored arches stand. Here the car drives through.
[Voice-over, female voice with a neutral Dutch accent]
"This is the starting point of the transformation of the Pernis refinery into the Shell Chemicals and Energy Park Rotterdam."
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Huibert Vigeveno, Downstream Director of Royal Dutch Shell stands in a suit at the refinery. The camera is focused on his face.
[Huibert Vigeveno, Downstream Director Royal Dutch Shell]
"We are here for the official opening of one of the largest biofuel plants in Europe."
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Drone footage of the refinery can now be seen.
[Huibert Vigeveno]
"We're very proud to do this."
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Huibert Vigeveno, Downstream Director of Royal Dutch Shell stands in a suit at the refinery. The camera is focused on his face.
[Huibert Vigeveno]
"This is one of the many things we are doing to become net zero."
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Shell personnel can be seen giving a presentation to interested parties. The image then spills over to people at work in the refinery.
[Huibert Vigeveno]
"The transformation starts by not only having that ambition ourselves, but by listening to: what do our customers want, what do they need, and how can we help them achieve that?
For me this will be an energy and chemistry park where we actually open the gates, let everyone in and show what we can do.
Building a biofuel plant for our customers who all have the same ambition as us: net zero. But they don't know how."
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Video footage can be seen of a scientist in a white suit with a mouth mask holding a chemistry beaker containing a sample of the biofuel.
[Huibert Vigeveno]
"With this biofuel, we can help them meet their net zero ambitions as well."
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The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, is shown being interviewed on the grounds of the refinery in Pernis. In the background are the large installations.
[Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam]
"Not only for Rotterdam does the start of the construction of this biofuel plant have significance,"
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An overview of the refinery is given. This is a design in a digital program. Then the image moves to the actual refinery. Here the major installations can be seen again.
[Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam]
"It's also an innovative high point for the rest of the world.
This is where we need to go."
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An overview of the refinery is given. This is a design in a digital program. Then the image moves to the actual refinery. Here the major installations can be seen again.
[Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam]
"The world runs on fossil fuels: natural gas, petroleum etcetera.
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The images go back to the seminar being given. On stage, the Mayor of Rotterdam has also joined in. Together with four men, he answers questions from the panel and the audience. The images change to a board on which three jars can be seen. These are three samples of raw materials for biofuels: RAPESEED OIL, TALLOW and USED COOKING OIL are written underneath the three jars.
[Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam]
"But civilization now demands a transition to something else."
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From above, a white car is filmed driving through a green forest.
[Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam]
"Shell understands society and the global community. And is organizing it."
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The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, is shown being interviewed on the grounds of the refinery in Pernis. In the background are the large installations. He is wearing a light blue tie with dots.
[Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam]
"That's going to lead to less pollution.
That's going to lead to more innovative jobs.
That's going to lead to saving the equivalent of a million cars' worth of CO2 in the air."
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Jos van Winsen, General Manager of Shell Pernis is interviewed on the grounds of the refinery. In the background are the towers of the plants and construction fences
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"We announced today that we are going to build a biofuels plant," he said.
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An excavator is filmed from above. The orange excavator lifts up a large gray pipe and lays it in a trench dug.
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"That we're really going to build a factory where we... "
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Jos van Winsen, General Manager of Shell Pernis is interviewed on the grounds of the refinery. In the background are the towers of the plants and construction fences
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"820 kilotons per year.... "
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Shell's yellow logo is filmed. It is on large crates. As soon as the image shifts to the right, it can be read on the crate "03 FROM FRITURE FAT MAKE KEROSINE"
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"to biodiesel and biokerosene."
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Jos van Winsen, General Manager of Shell Pernis is interviewed on the grounds of the refinery. In the background are the towers of the plants and construction fences
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"So very low CO2 intensity biofuel.
That's good for the world and."
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An overview of the refinery is shown.
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"That's good for us.
We also have a future prospect for this refinery with that."
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Jos van Winsen, General Manager of Shell Pernis is interviewed on the grounds of the refinery. In the background are the towers of the plants and construction fences
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"This is really a very big investment.
We are investing that purely in biofuel whereas in the past you were always investing on the oil and fossil side."
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An overview of the refinery is shown.
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"This is actually the largest investment in 24 years, and we're really putting it into biofuel."
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Jos van Winsen, General Manager of Shell Pernis is interviewed on the grounds of the refinery. In the background are the towers of the plants and construction fences
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"With that, I think it's really a turnaround of the refinery....
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A large yellow excavator is moving sand around the site. An employee is supervising the process. He is wearing red overalls with a yellow helmet. On the helmet are hearing protectors.
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
“Where we are going to an energy and chemical park."
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Several employees come into view. The first is wearing a red overalls. The second is wearing a white lab coat. The third also has an overal on with a helmet under her arm. They look like they are ready to get to work. All three are smiling kindly.
[Jos van Winsen, General Manager Shell Pernis]
"In the end, you see that the future prospect is employment for Pernis.
That's good for Rotterdam."
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Huibert Vigeveno and Ahmed Aboutaleb stand together hand in hand. They push a big red button which symbolizes the opening of the park. Many journalists stand around them with cameras.
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