Title:Self-installing platform helps keep the lights on
Duration: 1:00 minute
Watch this timelapse of a self-installing platform that will help unlock more energy from deep water off the Philippines to power businesses and homes. More than 1,400 workers over two years have made this impressive feat a reality. The new platform, Phase 3 of the Malampaya project, is designed to maintain the supply of natural gas which meets around 30% of the country’s energy needs.
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Dramatic music
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Sped-up footage of the erection of a centrally-located, tall, red gantry on a vast, level concrete foundation. Construction equipment and vehicles move about around the gantry as it’s being raised. Blue-roofed warehouses are visible at the side of the foundation area.
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Sped-up aerial footage of the fabrication yard, which is located in an open, below-ground area. The tall, red gantry moves overhead on tracks either side of the fabrication yard, lowering massive, modular pieces of a building being constructed in the sunken area. The scene is very busy, withworkers constantly coming and going.
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Sped-up footage. The camera zooms in on the work going on on the upper level of the building being constructed in the fabrication yard. More massive modular pieces of the building are being lowered into place on the construction by the gantry.
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The building which was being constructed in the sunken area, supported on a massive floating platform, is towed away from the pier and out of the harbour by two tugboats. A tall, massive leg extends from each corner of the floating platform.
The tugboats tow the floating platform further out to sea, passing a densely-forested headland.
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Sped-up footage of the platform in open ocean. There is a tugboat attached to each leg. The tugboats are each positioned at an equal distance from each leg, facing away from the platform.
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Sped-up footage, from the deck of an adjacent platform, of the platform with its legs now lowered about halfway into the ocean. The platform begins to rise.
Close-up, at deck level, of the rising platform.
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Sped-up footage. The platform has risen to the top of the four legs. A crane from the adjacent platform lowers a metal bridge to span the narrow gap between the two platforms.
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Sped-up footage of the two platforms at dusk. A flame is visible at the top of near-vertical narrow chimney on one of the platforms. A tugboat floats alongside as the sky darkens and lights come on on the two platforms.
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Sped-up footage of a night-time scene on the platform. The view is a closer one, from just alongside the platform. As we watch, the platform rises. Workers are visible on the various levels of the platform.
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A foggy daytime scene of the two platforms, side by side, in the open ocean.
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Shell logo
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