The aerial inspectors

Title: How drones are used to check thousands of gas wells

Duration 01:10 seconds

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Intense music building suspense

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Wide establishing shot of agricultural land in Queensland, Australia

Caption: Queensland, Australia

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Camera zooms in to a patch of land with a gas well

Camera cuts to aerial close up of the red gas well

Caption: 3,000 gas wells lie in the Surat basin

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Close up side view of Drone on the ground. Its camera head moves up and down.

[Audio]

“Launch Launch Launch

Blow her away

Red flag is armed…launching in 3…2…1”

Caption: The Challenge: Visually inspecting these wells and pipelines

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An operator sits in a control room wearing a orange visibility jacket and headphones sitting in front of two computer screens controlling the drone.

Camera cuts to outside, the launch pad is to the left of the screen, there’s a crane on the right of the screen and you see a partly obscured guy in an orange high vis jacket to the foreground of the screen to the right

Caption: The answer:

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You see the drone launch into the sky from the launch pad to the left of the screen

Another shot of the drone launching from directly behind the launch pad. Pylon tower to the left of the screen and the guy in the orange high vis jacket to the right of the screen.

Another shot of the drone launching – the launch pad to the right of the screen and the Pylon tower directly behind it.

Close up from just behind the drone, camera pans upwards focussing on the drone as it disappears into the distance.

Shot of drone flying against the blue sky

Caption: Remotely-piloted aircraft (or drones)

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Footage from the drone of the gas well – zooms in twice to get a better shot.

Caption: They fly up to 900 metres high. And are made by Insitu Pacific, part of boeing

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Another shot of a white drone flying against the light blue sky

Shot of two men in high vis orange jackets and blue and white hats fixing a wing on the drone which is on the launch pad. Camera pans round them from left to right

Caption: It’s the first time drones have been used to inspect wells over such a wide area.

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Another shot of a white drone flying against the light blue sky

Caption: They fly thousands of kilometres. Reducing the need for driving, saving working-hours and improving safety

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Shot of Pylon tower, camera pans from top to bottom

Close up of a satellite dish

View of a guy in a high vis orange jacket standing behind the launch pad attaching a part to the back of it.

Close up of the guy fastening the part to the launch pad

Camera zooms in to the back part of the launch pad with the drone ready to launch

View from in front of the launch pad of the drone launching in slow-motion.

Caption: Helping to bring natural gas to Australia and the world

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Footage from the drone of the gas well – zooms in eight times to get a close up shot of the gas well.

Another shot of the drone flying against the blue sky

Drone flies towards a pole with string hanging from it, a white pylon tower is to the right of the screen.

The wing of the drone is caught on the string and slowed down and then lowered to the ground.

[Audio]

Background music ends followed by Shell outro sting

Graphic: Shell Pecten

Text: ©Shell International Limited 2017