Title:ONE MANS LIFT

Duration: 1:33 minutes

Description:

Brent Delta platform lift and removal.

ONE MANS LIFT Transcript

[Background music plays]

Gentle instrumental music with delicate keyboard tones and strings, building to an anthemic style before gentling once again.

[Video footage]

Bird’s eye footage of the Brent Delta platform, seen against a background of blue seas and skies.

[Robert Cullen]

I never got to see it from this angle before.

[Video footage]

Footage of Robert Cullen sitting at a window alongside others, using binoculars to view the Delta platform through the window.

[Text displays]

For four years, Robert Cullen lived and worked on the Shell Brent Delta platform.

[Video footage]

Point of view footage, as taken from behind Robert and a colleague, of the Delta platform in the ocean.

[Robert Cullen]

I didn’t think I would see it again, so delighted to be part of the operation here to go and pick it up.

[Video footage]

More footage of Robert seated at the window, handing the binoculars to a colleague seated alongside.

[Text displays]

Now it’s being decommissioned,

[Video footage]

Panning front view of the topside of the platform, Brent Delta signage visible.

[Text displays]

in spectacular style.

[Video footage]

Bird’s eye view of the platform in the ocean, panning across to the approaching vessel, Pioneering Spirit.

[Text displays]

The world’s largest construction vessel…

[Video footage]

Bird’s eye view of the Pioneering Spirit in the ocean.

[Text displays]

lifted the whole platform in one go.

[Video footage]

Fast motion footage by night of the twin hulled Pioneering Spirit moving into position around the platform

[Text displays]

16 hydraulic arms…

[Video footage]

Point-of-view imagery from under the topside, showing one of the vessel’s lift beams extending and positioning itself under the topside. Close-up of the hydraulic clamp mounted on the beam rising to connect with the underside of the topside.

[Text displays]

raised the 24,200 tonne platform…

[Video footage]

More footage of the vessel’s hydraulic lift system lifting the platform free of the platform’s legs.

[Text displays]

in just 10 seconds.

[Video footage]

Front view of the Pioneering Spirit straddling the platform legs while lifting the topside clear of the legs. Close-up in profile of Robert, dressed in safety gear, standing at a ship’s railing alongside other colleagues, all smiling and laughing as they watch the lift.

[Text displays]

It’s a world record lift.

[Video footage]

Bird’s eye view of the Pioneering Spirit in the ocean, carrying the platform topside, while the top of the platform legs are visible at frame-right.

[Robert Cullen]

Fantastic. Probably the best thing I’ve ever seen in my career. Absolutely amazing.

[Video footage]

Close-up of Robert, dressed in safety gear, standing at a ship’s railing as he speaks while looking into the camera. Bird’s eye view of the topside aboard the Pioneering Spirit seen against the background of dark blue ocean waters and pale blue skies.

[Robert Cullen]

Next for Delta is off to Hartlepool, and off to the recycling yard.

[Video footage]

Low angle footage of a section of the Delta topside seen against a background of blue skies.

[Robert Cullen]

The next step in the journey.

[Video footage]

Close-up of Robert in profile, standing at the ship’s railing, as before, as he speaks and turns to look into the camera.

[Text displays]

Over 97% of Brent Delta will now be recycled.

[Video footage]

Panning footage of the Delta topside being brought into a shipyard aboard the Iron Lady cargo barge with the help of tug boats, the shipyard visible in the background. Wide low angle view of the Delta topside aboard the Iron Lady in the shipyard, seen against a background of stormy skies.

[Audio]

Shell jingle.

[Graphic]

Shell Pecten centred on a white background with text displaying below.

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