Title:Shell – Malampaya
Duration: 1:00 minute
Shell – Malampaya
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Self-Installing platform helps keep the lights on
Malampaya Deep-water Gas-to-Power
Project Phase 3, Philippines
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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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More than 1,400 Filipino workers built the platform at the fabrication yard
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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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Construction took around two years
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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 new platform was towed 50 km offshore
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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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The platform legs were lowered into the sea
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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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The topsides were raised into position
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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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A 50-metre bridge connects the platforms
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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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This is the first offshore platform designed and built in the Philippines
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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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The platform will help maintain the supply of natural gas
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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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Malampaya meets around 30% of the Philippines’ energy needs
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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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