Title:Shell's Floating Liquid Natural Gas Facility -- FLNG - from YouTube
Duration: 1:46 minutes
Shell's Floating Liquid Natural Gas Facility -- FLNG - from YouTubeFilm Transcript
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Futuristic keyboard music
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Natural gas
Shell’s floating liquefied natural gas facility – FLNG
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Demand for energy is expected to increase
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Circle filled with rows of stickmen. Labelled, “Population.”
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Circle filled with a small mountain village scene with a pylon and electricity lines running through it. labelled, “Energy use.”
Circle disappears for graphic to fill whole screen. A train goes past behind the village, cars driving in front.
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Natural gas could help bridge the planet’s energy gap.
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Camera pans over the graphic, across a river with a bridge, to a gas plant.
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Natural gas is:
- Abundant
- Cleaner burning
- Versatile
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Pans further down the gas plant. Pipes with mountains behind.
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But gas in its natural state can only be transported by pipeline over relatively short distances.
For longer distances, other methods of transportation are required.
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Blue sky with sun in the corner.
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The solution?
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Two liquefying tanks.
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Liquefying gas by cooling it to -162˚C, to shrink its volume 600 times.
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Crane lifting a crate.
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This allows it to be transported by ship.
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Ship at sea filled with cranes and gas tanks.
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It’s like a land based liquefaction plant but squeezed onto a 488m floating facility.
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Size comparisons of the ship. Shows the ship bigger than the USS George H. W. Bush, much bigger than a 30m blue whale. 1.93m tall Michael Phelps is a speck in the ocean.
The blue whale dips under the ocean surface.
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Four football pitches laid end to end above the ship to show a size comparison.
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Its deck is almost 500m – longer than four football pitches, end to end.
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Zooms in on choppy water next to the ship.
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It displaces 600,000 tonnes of water
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Stick men standing on platforms of the ship.
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Preparing to build FLNG took:
10 years of research
600 engineers
1.6 million man-hours
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It will produce 3.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year.
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On top of a crane on the ship.
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And will remain on location for some 25 years.
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Rain pouring down onto the ship, the ship rocks back and forth.
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FLNG can withstand the category 5 cyclones…
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Dot on a map off the north west coast of Australia.
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… that it may encounter 200km off the coast of Australia.
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FLNG is being built now to produce the energy we’ll need tomorrow
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Shell logo
WIRED logo.
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To find out more about the Wired and Shell partnership visit wired.co.uk/promotions/shell-lets-go
Wiredmpromotion/video by: toastdigital.co.uk