Sustainability in film
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Watch: Shell LiveWIRE - provides enterprise development support across the world
Shell LiveWIRE - provides enterprise development support across the world
Duration 00:04:03
[Animation footage]
Night skyline with intertwined rotating and growing, illuminated spheres
Text in right hand bottom corner: Shell LiveWIRE 35 Years
[Audio]
Opening music for animation
[Vision]
Close up of Jo Cochrane
[Audio]
Background music – sound of Shell
[Jo Cochrane interview]
“In 1982, 1 in 8 people in the UK was out of work, and I can vouch for this as an Environmental Sciences Graduate of 1983 because I remember this time very well, but it was also the time when North Sea oil and gas was developing very rapidly…”
[Screen Caption]
JO COCHRANE, VP SOCIAL PERFORMANCE, Shell
[Vision]
Side view of ‘space module’, pans out to show the Shell LiveWIRE logo and then the module heading for planet
[Jo Cochrane voice over]
“…so Shell responded to the socio-economic challenges by launching Livewire which aimed to address the growing…”
[Vision]
Close up of Jo Cochrane
[Jo Cochrane Interview]
“….youth unemployment….
[Jo Cochrane voice over]
“…through entrepreneurship. So from those small beginnings in 1982 in Scotland Shell Livewire has become our flagship enterprise development programme and has helped literally thousands…”
[Vision]
Picture of television screen with an ‘E’ logo in top right hand corner and LIVEWIRE in centre of screen, both in red font
The ‘E’ logo scrolls across screen from right to left and a ‘Shell’ logo appears under ‘LIVEWIRE’ with the words ‘YOUNG IDEAS AT WORK’ appearing under the ‘Shell’ logo.
The ‘LiveWIRE’ logo then switches to white over softened picture of two men holding a cheque between them.
Picture clears and third man appears in view
[Vision]
Close up of Jo Cochrane.
[Jo Cochrane interview]
“…of young entrepreneurs to set up sustainable, innovative and ultimately scale-able small businesses. “
[Vision]
View of man welding on bench, orange safety helmet in middle of bench, high vis jacket to right of screen,
View changes to show stacks of lobster creels end on
View changes to blue metal stairs, with a blue metal lobster creel covered in green netting suspended by the side
[Stewart Graham voice over]
“We started repairing Lobster and Crab creels in steel at which point I looked at the potential market for making them new. When I won the Livewire prize I think it was 18 for the regional and 19 for the national.”
[Vision]
Black and white photo of Stewart Graham when younger, followed by black and white photo from newspaper clipping, with him and an older gentleman in photo standing behind Lobster creels
Then another black and white photo of Stewart Graham receiving the LiveWIRE prize
[Caption]
In bottom left hand corner:
STEWART GRAHAM
GAEL FORCE MARINE UK
Graduated Shell LiveWIRE 1984
[Vision]
Close up of Stewart Graham
[Caption]
In bottom left hand corner:
STEWART GRAHAM
GAEL FORCE MARINE UK
Graduated Shell LiveWIRE 1984
[Stewart Graham Interview]
“I had no work experience, no job experience…”
[Stewart Graham voice over]
“…certainly no business experience at all. The publicity was very important, that gained us a lot of kudos actually throughout the years.”
[Vision}
Shot of Gael Force building with three vehicles, rear one being Land Rover Defender, parked to side, metal caging on front left corner of building and three further vehicles parked in front, one being a black truck
A blue Seat car drives towards premises and turns right in front of the premises
View switches to close up of the building showing the blue and yellow logo ‘gf’ under which Gael Force, MARINE MEGASTORE
View of inside the Megastore, showing some of the merchandise hanging – the front and rear of the shot being ‘softened’ with the middle clear
View changes to a close up ‘clip’
View then changes to show shop assistant (wearing black shirt) placing customer’s purchases in white plastic carrier. Customer in the front of picture wearing grey hoodie and beanie hat.
[Vision]
Thabitha Malinga covering salon bed with clean white sheet. Mirrors on rear wall, coat stand in right hand corner, small table in front covered with white cloth and having two white pots on and two glass ones. White drapes at window and Thabitha wearing black dress with white stripe from right shoulder to under left arm
[Vision]
Close up of Thabitha Malinga, with scarf round neck, left profile.
[Thabitha Malinga Interview]
“I was browsing through the internet and I saw the Shell logo…”
[Caption]
THABITHA MALINGA
THABITHA MALINGAS MOBILE SPA, SOUTH AFRICA
Graduated Shell LiveWIRE in 2016
[Vision]
Thabitha in salon placing pink and black cushions on treatment bed, pink flowers in black vase
[Thabitha Malinga voice over]
“….and I remember picking up funding incubation…”
[Vision]
Close up of Thabitha Malinga, left profile, scarf round neck
[Thabitha Malinga Interview]
“…and it was good for me to start applying.”
[Vision]
Blue car parks and Thabitha gets out,
View switches to her pulling white soft shelled cases with black pattern on whilst following an assistant who is carrying large black flat square case
The two head into building
[Thabitha Malinga voice over]
“I acquired learning through Shell Livewire. It's now a year that I've been with them,…”
[Vision]
Thabitha Malinga and assistant inside. The room has a table in far right corner by window, with chair in front of it. A circular table in the middle of room with clear Perspex chairs around
[Vision]
Close up of Thabitha Malinga, scarf round neck
[Thabitha Malinga Interview]
“….and during that year I have learnt so much.”
[Vision]
Thabitha Malinga in front of an ‘Apple’ computer, gentleman in white shirt to her right
[Vision]
Close up of Thabitha with scarf round neck
[THABITHA MALINGA Interview]
“I have learnt what it really means to be an entrepreneur.”
[Vision]
Thabitha Malinga in black salon outfit, with white diagonal strip on it walking down a street
Theme music
[Vision]
Close up of Jo Cochrane
[Jo Cochrane Interview]
“Livewire is very important to Shell because when you help local entrepreneurs to set up businesses they create…”
[Jo Cochrane voice over]
“…long term sources of income for communities, they create jobs and they help to find innovative solutions to social and economic problems.”
[Vision]
Steel fork lift truck to left of picture and just behind it another truck turns and moves from centre to the left, behind steel truck. To the right of the picture are stacks of crated items
Dockside view with two workmen, wearing overalls with ‘high vis’ stripes on and hard hats’ Yellow loading equipment in centre and blue containers to the right
Centre back is the ship
Four workmen, all with similar overalls and hard hats attaching pipes to outlet nozzles
[Vision]
Close up of Jo Cochrane
[Jo Cochrane Interview]
“But Livewire is much more than corporate social responsibility for Shell. When you mobilise entrepreneurs to start businesses Shell benefits in very many ways.”
[Jo Cochrane voice over]
“First of all they frequently find their way into our supply chain providing goods and services, either directly or in-directly, they often help us to deliver on our purpose of providing more and clean energy and supporting the energy transition in the countries where we operate.”
[Vision]
Cluster of large white storage containers against blue sly with pale white clouds. Single tree to right. The camera pans down to bottom of the containers
Centre of picture is bearded workman in overalls and hard hat and safety goggles. Rear, partial, view of another man on left of screen crossing yellow steel walkway with metal grid floor
Two workmen, wearing full protective gear by pipes. Yellow metal steelwork
Headless view of two men, the one on left wearing sleeveless high viz jacket over short sleeved shirt and long pants and a hard hat, the other is wearing navy knee length short with blue and white stripes on each leg and a short sleeved T-shirt and are both engaged in tying an orange rope to a solar panel. Shot switches to head view and shows two other people at rear of picture with end view of a wall
View of the man wearing the high viz jacket looking upwards at tall buildings with a palm tree on his right and a building just by that with windows overlooking
[Vision]
Close up of Jo Cochrane
[Jo Cochrane Interview]
“But crucially they help our neighbouring communities to diversify economically, which in the long term makes them less dependent on oil and gas but also makes them more resilient to whatever the future may hold.”
[Vision]
Back view of man wearing sleeveless high viz jacket with “‘Insolar’ supported by Shell #makethefuture” printed on it
Shot widens to include front view of dark haired man wearing safety goggles, and to the right of the picture a side on view of another man putting on hard hat
[Henrique Drumond voice over]
“We wanted to do the installations in community places that already do amazing work…”
[Vision]
Picture of Henrique Drumond putting hard hat on
[Caption]
HENRIQUE DRUMOND
INSOLAR, BRAZIL
Graduated Shell LiveWIRE in 2014
[Henrique Drumond voice over]
“….because we knew that the money they will save…”
[Vision]
Shot of Henrique Drumond on a rooftop terrace, wearing short sleeved brown polo shirt. High rise block in the middle of picture and mountain at the back
[Henrique Drumond Interview]
“…will go directly to what they do..”
[Vision]
Two gentlemen carrying solar panel between them across the roof terrace
[Henrique Drumond voice over]
“To do the solar installations together with the residents it was important to help them have access to that technology to integrate that technology to the people's lives to integrate people to the projects so they can work in the field.”
[Vision]
Room full of men, front gentleman in clear view, rest of picture ‘softened’, view pans to front of room where Henrique Drumond is giving a slide presentation against pale green wall – a red fire extinguisher can be seen on far right of picture
View of people attending meeting…., and then one man questioning Henrique Drumond – solar panel leaning against wall
Worker on top of roof beginning installation, then shot switches to Henrique Drumond being interviewed on roof terrace
[Henrique Drumond Interview]
“It's interesting to see how one project, one technology can move around the community and benefit everyone.”
[Vision]
View of storage tanks on right of picture, road in the middle and grass on right with single story buildings at the back left. This pans to the left and then we get full front, head and chest picture of JOHARI BIN BRAHIKM
[Caption]
In top right of screen:
‘Johari’s company
Teamone Environmental
Technologies won
A $24 million contract
from Shell Brunei through
Competitive tendering’
Theme Music
[Vision]
JOHARI BIN BRAHIKM sitting at a desk, centre of screen – four other men with him, one either side two at back of room
Johari Bin Brahim in lilac and white check shirt, centre picture – bookcase top left corner
[Caption]
JOHARI BIN BRAHIM
TEAMONE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, BRUNEI
Graduated Shell LiveWIRE in 2006
[JOHARI BIN BRAHIM Interview]
“Teamone was started in 2014…
[JOHARI BIN BRAHIKM voice over]
“…with my two partners”
[Vision]
The four men dockside, wearing full protective gear lifting pipe from yellow metal structure. Blue containers on right
Group of men, all wearing full protective wear, crating goods inside warehouse, picture switches to head shot of Hafiz Ramle
[Caption]
HAFIZ RAMLE
CO-FOUNDER
TEAMONE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, BRUNEI
[Hafiz Ramle Interview]
“So I said, let's open up a company, let's focus on areas like hazardous material…”
[Hafiz Ramle voice over]
“…waste management and stuff like that.”
[Vision]
Shot returns to three men working amongst the yellow metal pipework, all wearing full protective wear
[Vision]
Shot of JOHARI BIN BRAHIKM this time on left of picture
[JOHARI BIN BRAHIKM Interview]
“We're focusing on green.”
[Vision]
Group of four men attaching pipe nozzles to outlets, this then fades
Theme music
[Vision]
Goes from a fade to clear view of girl sat at desk, coat over back of chair, with many files and booklets to hand, view carries on through to gentleman in front of computer screen on phone and then shows a separated office space that has blinds at the glass
[Stewart Graham voice over]
“When we started our business…”
[Vision]
Front head shot of Stewart Graham
[Stewart Graham Interview]
“…this part of the world suffered chronic unemployment…”
[Stewart Graham voice over]
“…and I would like to think that we've contributed to improving that situation with type of employment and the type of income that we create is very much adding to the GDP of the economy of this area. We have a large number of people who have grown and developed with the company and that is very very satisfying that's a particular source of pride for me.”
[Vision]
View of office with lots of paperwork and 4 staff members at desks
Head on shot of man to the right of the screen sat at computer
View of female staff member at desk laughing
Forklift truck moving towards camera with a large yellow cement lorry in the background
Close up of two workmen in full safety gear talking
Wide shot to see behind the two workmen (who are now in shadow) at two red cranes and the yellow cement lorry
Workman walking across a steel walkway from left to right in blue overalls and an orange helmet surrounded by water
Overhead shot of workman smoothing down concrete with specialised equipment
Workman in high visibility jacket and blue helmet to the left of the screen
Overhead shot of two workmen in orange helmets
Shot of inside Megastore with two men browsing in one of the aisles
Close up shot of Stewart Graham talking to a man in a red top
Close up shot of male staff member at his desk on the telephone with a map on the wall behind him.
Another office shot of two male staff members laughing
[Vision]
Front head shot of Jo Cochrane
[Jo Cochrane Interview]
“So now, 2017 Shell Livewire celebrates its 35th anniversary and it's operating in 15 countries and delivered in 8 languages.”
[Vision]
White screen with
Shell liveWIRE 35 years 1982-2017
in middle of the screen.
#makethefuture
At the bottom of screen
Shell Pecten
[Text]
©SHELL INTERNATIONAL LIMITED 2017
Audio
Shell outro sting
Watch: Sustainability at Shell: Responsible means...
Sustainability at Shell: Responsible means...
Energy is vital to daily life.
It keeps our world moving.
As populations and living standards rise so will the world’s need for energy.
That’s why, to help meet tomorrow’s needs, we’re working responsibly today.
For us, responsible means applying standards for safety and the environment.
So when we produce biofuel from sugar cane in Brazil we use the best practice international standards to help protect workers and the environment.
Responsible means sharing benefits with people in places where we operate.
For over 30 years our LiveWIRE programme has helped young entrepreneurs to kickstart their ideas.
On one project in Pakistan we've partnered with CARE International so that hundreds of rural women can bring their business ideas to life to benefit them, their families and communities.
And responsible means finding ways to deliver cleaner energy today, while deploying tomorrow’s technologies.
Prelude, our new floating facility, will collect natural gas from remote areas at sea, chill it and shrink it down, to bring cleaner-burning gas to more people every day around the world.
Working together to keep the world moving today and help shape our energy future.
Watch: Improving Access to Clean Water - Hazira LNG, India
Title: Improving Access to Clean Water - Hazira LNG
Duration: 3:26 minutes
Description:
Meeting the challenge of the contamination of India’s water to supply clean drinking water through an innovative community project supported by Hazira LNG – a reverse osmosis drinking water plant.
Improving Access to Clean Water - Hazira LNG Transcript
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music with an Indian flavour, at times with light and delicate notes, at times more rhythmic and dramatic.
[Narrator]
With India’s population over the 1.3 billion mark, many of the country’s natural resources are being stretched, including water, with many sources contaminated from sewage and agricultural run-off.
[Video footage]
Footage of bustling streets in India, The Red Fort in the background and pedestrians, cabs, buses and other vehicles filling the streets.
Low angle view of the Indian flag flying from The Red Fort.
Bird’s eye view of bustling city streets, multi-storey buildings lining the streets.
High angle vertically panning footage of a river. Tall buildings along the banks and blue sky above form the background.
Footage of the soil along the banks of the river. The soil has a greenish tinge.
Aerial footage showing the greenish tinge along the banks of the river.
Interview with Dr. Manohar Ghemawat
[Title]
Village Doctor / Gujarat, India
[Text displays]
Dr. Manohar Ghemawat / Village Doctor / Gujarat, India
[Dr. Ghemawat]
Because of the poor sanitation, gastroenteritis was very common when the people are using contaminated water or well water.
[Video footage]
Mid-shot of Dr Ghemawat speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, against the background of his surgery.
Footage of a villagers collecting water in canisters or drinking water from a communal water spout under a tree.
Interview with Ila Ben Patel
[Title]
Resident / Hazira, India
[Text displays]
Ila Ben Patel / Resident / Hazira, India
[Ila – subtitles]
When we drank the other water we frequently fell sick, so every month or two we had to go the hospital.
[Video footage]
Low angle footage of a woman entering the doctor’s surgery.
Footage of the woman and the doctor conversing across his desk.
Mid-shot of Ila speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, against the background of green foliage.
[Narrator]
But in one village in Western India, an innovative community project supported by Hazira LNG is making a difference. They supported the village panchayat, a local community group, to build a reverse osmosis drinking water plant.
[Video footage]
Low angle view of the Indian flag flying against the sky.
Bird’s eye view of Hazira LNG plant and entrance.
Footage of the LNG tanks.
Footage of a villager dispensing drinking water into a 20 litre bottle. More 20 litre bottles are lined up and other villagers stand in the background.
Footage of two small filters in the process of filtering water.
Interview with Shailendra Khalashi
[Title]
Project Manager / KVSVS
[Text displays]
Shailendra Khalashi / Project Manager / KVSVS
[Shailendra – subtitles]
The water comes from the well, which then goes into our tank. From tank it goes directly into the sand filter, which processes the water. From the sand filter, the water then goes into carbon filter next to it. After the carbon filter processes the water, it is channelled to two small filters. Finally, one part of the water is clean, which is stored in our tank. The waste water goes outside.
[Video footage]
Wide view of Shailendra speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, standing alongside the reverse osmosis system. He points in turn to the tank, sand filter, carbon filter, and the previously described small filters, as he mentioned each one’s role in the reverse osmosis process.
[Narrator]
To avoid problems of power shortage, the water plant runs on solar power. It has a storage capacity of 4,000 litres.
[Video footage]
Close-up of a switch being flipped to start the process.
Close-up of one of the small filters in the process of filtering water.
Footage of a bank of solar panels, cutting to footage of the sun against an orange sky.
Panning footage of the sand and carbon filter abreast of one another.
[Narrator]
Each family is given a standard 20 litre bottle which is used for collecting water from the reverse osmosis plant. How the programme works is also unusual. Studying similar projects in India, the team saw that programmes or facilities provided for free to communities didn’t always last.
[Video footage]
Reverse angle footage of a man carrying a 20 litre bottle in each hand, walking towards the water collection point.
Footage of a boy placing his bottles alongside the other waiting bottles and waiting with other villagers while they are filled.
Footage of a number of filled 20 litre bottles being placed in a vehicle.
Footage of a woman carrying a 20 litre bottle entering the property to join the others waiting to have their bottles filled.
Footage of a man filling a bottle with water from the tap, cutting to a close-up of his face and then of another villager’s face.
[Narrator]
So from the onset, the solution in Hazira had to be sustainable and involve the community. They drew up a pay and use system, designed as a social enterprise where villagers pay six rupees to fill water bottles.
[Video footage]
Wide footage of the villagers gathered around the tap and bottles at the water collection point.
More footage of the man filling the bottles, and a woman leaving with the water bottle on her head, accompanied by a man and small boy.
Footage of a woman holding her pay-and-use card as she waits with her bottle.
More footage of the villagers waiting at the water collection point. A man is seated at a desk with a book and a stack of the pay and use cards. Villagers, including Ila, approach him and he fills out their cards.
[Ila – subtitles]
We have a card which allows us to collect water, and our water collections are recorded in it. We have to recharge the card in advance by paying the fees to the operator.
[Video footage]
Mid-shot of Ila speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, against the background of green foliage.
High angle view of the man at the desk filling out a pay and use card.
Mid-shot of Ila speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, against the background of green foliage.
Reverse angle footage of Ila walking down the street with her bottle of water on her head.
[Shailendra – subtitles]
We don’t supply free water, but we collect a nominal fee from the customers to run the solar plant.
[Video footage]
Wide view of Shailendra speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, standing alongside the reverse osmosis system.
Close-up footage of the various controls and meters of the reverse osmosis system.
[Narrator]
Hazira LNG helped with the infrastructure but the ongoing system is run by the community. Today, nearly 300 households are enrolled in the programme.
[Video footage]
Footage of the water collection point as various villagers leave with their bottles of water, and others collect around the desk having their cards filled out.
[Ila – subtitles]
With this clean water, our health has improved and we save on hospital and medicine fees. Our whole village has enjoyed the benefits that clean water brings.
[Video footage]
Reverse angle footage of a woman walking down the street carrying her bottle of water on her head, and accompanied by a small boy.
Mid-shot of Ila speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, against the background of green foliage.
Interview with Ramila Ben
[Title]
Resident / Hazira, India
[Text displays]
Ramila Ben / Resident / Hazira, India
[Ramila]
We don’t have to drink boiled water, now that we get clean water. Everything is good.
[Video footage]
Footage of a young man placing his bottle of water on his bicycle.
Close-up of Ramila speaking to the interviewer who is out of shot, against the background of the water collection point.
[Narrator]
Currently, most families in the village use this water. There are plans to expand this successful programme to other rural villages in India. And the hope is that the initiative in Hazira will be able to sustain a clean water supply for many years to come.
[Video footage]
Footage of a man cycling towards the shot, carrying numerous containers on the back of his three-wheel bicycle.
Reverse angle footage of a group of teenage boys walking up a street. There are houses lining the street.
Footage of a small boy at the entrance of a house in the village. A young girl runs past him and into the house.
Front view of Ila approaching, carrying her bottle of water on her head.
Reverse angle footage of Ila’s swishing skirt and feet as she walks down the street.
[Text displays]
www.shell.com/communities
[Audio]
Shell jingle
[Text displays]
© Shell International Limited 2016
Watch: Mercy Corps Partnership, China
Shell Mercy Corps partnership, China
Duration: 1:02 minutes
Description:
In Sichuan Province, China, Shell has partnered with Mercy Corps and other non-government organisations to provide local farmers with advice and training to help improve agricultural practices, business management and marketing.
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music with strings, increasing in intensity, then gentling towards the end.
[Text displays]
Farmers near our operations in China’s Sichuan Province had one of their best harvest seasons in many years.
[Video footage]
Aerial footage of the hills and vegetation of China’s Sichuan Province, cutting to slightly panning footage of green fields.
[Text displays]
Their farm revenue almost doubled.
Thanks to a community livelihoods programme set up by Shell, Mercy Corps and local partners in 2014
[Video footage]
Slightly panning footage of a man working with a farming hand implement amongst his crops.
[Text displays]
Advice and training helped improve agricultural practices, business management and marketing
[Video footage]
Footage of a classroom scene, an instructor standing in front of the screen at the front of the class, gesturing towards the projected graphics on the screen. Close-up of a diary being paged through. Footage of an instructor standing in front of a flipchart, marker in hand, as she teaches.
[Text displays]
More valuable crops such as black peanuts and sweet potatoes are now grown and sold
[Graphics]
Four successive graphics appear onscreen.
- Two piles of black peanuts, one with shells, one without.
- A pile of peanuts in shell at frame-left and a small bowl of peanuts in shell alongside at frame-right.
- Nine unpeeled sweet potatoes
- One unpeeled sweet potato sliced into four pieces.
[Text displays]
A new online store reaches customers nationwide
[Video footage]
Rear view close up of someone holding a smartphone in their hands with an app open onscreen, cutting to a closer view of the open app with data displaying onscreen.
[Text displays]
Agreements have been signed with a food processing plant
[Video footage]
Footage of two men standing beside a scale in a room also containing a cupboard and marketing materials displayed on the walls. One man is holding a sack open while the other man tips peanuts from the bucket he is holding into the open sack.
[Text displays]
Boosting the farmers’ revenue and helping to stimulate local economic growth
[Video footage]
Footage of the two men in the setting previously described, sealing a box with tape, and one of the men stacks it on top of another box.
[Text displays]
The programme is part of a global partnership between Shell and Mercy Corps
[Video footage]
Footage of a classroom setting with the instructor walking amongst the students in the class while carrying a large piece of flipchart paper with writing on it.
[Text displays]
Seeking new ways for NGOs and companies to work together for mutual benefits
[Video footage]
Front view of a class of students/farmers, seated in rows. This cuts to more footage of a slightly more spacious classroom setting, this time with students seated in groups around tables, data displaying on the white screen at the front of the class.
[Text displays]
Watch: Conserving the Coral Triangle
Jun
INTV:
After graduating from high school, I started doing compressor fishing because that is the primary livelihood here in Bulalacao. The use of compressor, dynamite, cyanide and more.
In 2007, they banned compressor fishing.
[Voice Over]:
The Philippines is a group of 7000 islands lying in the Coral Triangle.
These waters support more species than any other marine environment on the planet.
And many fishing villages rely on them for their survival.
But this richly biodiverse area faces many threats.
And so, a solution needed to be found.
Title: Conserving the Coral Triangle
[Voice over]:
The Malampaya deep-water gas-to-power platform lies off the coast of Palawan island and supplies up to 20% of electricity in the Philippines.
Sankie
INTV:
This area is really pristine and for Shell it is important for us to keep it that way.
[Voice Over]:
A big promise to live up to.
Shell committed to protect the area by building its pipeline around the reefs and other sensitive areas
But there are other challenges in the area – such as threats to marine life from illegal fishing techniques and over-fishing.
Sankie
INTV:
Majority of our assets for Malampaya are actually marine-based and so the primary communities are really coastal communities.
[Voice Over]:
The Malampaya foundation, set up by Shell and its Joint Venture partners, helps communities establish marine protected areas. And partners with communities to "organize" reef watch teams.
INTV:
Conservation is the most fulfilling job that a marine biologist can get. Helping those communities protect and conserve the marine environment is really an opportunity for us
[Voice Over]:
Jun - is one of the local fishermen who is now part of a community reef team.
INTV:
Corals are dying. Even the fish are decreasing in number. That’s why I changed my occupation.
INTV:
We train them in scuba diving and then after that we train them to monitor the reefs, so they're licensed scuba divers and they're also licensed reef checkers
[Voice Over]:
To help rehabilitate blasted reefs, rescued coral fragments are given a better chance to survive when they are moved to elevated nursery beds.
There are 19 coral nurseries with reef watch teams monitoring their health every month.
INTV:
My main role is monitoring the fish population – if it increases or decreases. The population increased not just in terms of number but also in terms of variety.
INTV:
We've been doing monitoring since 2012, in 3 years we're seeing improvements in the fish population. That's an indication that their conservation programme in the area is working.
[Voice Over]:
But reef monitoring and coral rehabilitation are just part of the solution.
For marine conservation to be truly sustainable, Malampaya Foundation works at the grassroots level with communities and local governments to implement a comprehensive coastal resource management programme that involves education, advocacy and planning with the people to reduce threats, improve management and help enforce laws.
INTV:
The benefits of marine conservation programmes aren't immediate but we educate them on sustainable development. If they conserve it now, they can get what they need for today and also have something left for tomorrow and for the next generations.
[Voice Over]:
Elsewhere in Bulalacao, training programmes are helping communities to find alternative livelihood opportunities.
INTV:
Malampaya has been really helpful to a lot of people. They provided training in sewing and hog raising.
INTV:
I am happy. The training has been a great help for us – it's fun and educational. This is a way for the women and housewives in our village to contribute to our families.
[Voice Over]:
Local people have been raising pigs using traditional methods for decades but the Malampaya Foundation advised on more organic and hygienic ways of feeding them.
INTV:
I am so thankful to be involved in this hog raising project. It's really helpful to us because my husband is only a fisherman who earns very little. I have four kids that I need to send to school. This has been a huge help.
Jun
INTV:
I told myself that I made the right decision in changing my job and joining this team. It's an opportunity for my wife and I to provide a better life for our kid. I don't want my kid to struggle like I did. I want him to experience a better future, one that I didn't have.
[Voice Over]:
In this idyllic setting – with the support of the Malampaya Foundation, local people like Jun are helping to bring long-lasting benefits to their environment and creating sustainable sources of livelihood, now and for future generations
Watch: Seizing the dream: Gaining skills for a better life
Title: Seizing the dream: Gaining skills for a better life
Duration: 5:26 minutes
Description:
The Malampaya Foundation’s Bridging Employment through Skills Training (BEST) programme trains people like Brenda in new skills that will help them gain employment or establish their own businesses.
[Video footage]
Close-up of a rooster and a black dog cutting, as the rooster crows, to wider footage of the people and dwellings in a rural Filipino homes and village.
[Audio]
Rooster crowing, birds chirping, people chattering in a foreign language.
[Narrator]
South of Manila in the Philippines, Brenda Anyayahan seemed destined to a life struggling to make ends meet, just like many underprivileged Filipinos do today. But she found a way to break the mould and trained for a job which set apart from most women in her community.
[Video footage]
Mid view of Brenda and other women sitting together on the porch, the woman seated alongside Brenda talking on her mobile phone as Brenda looks on.
More footage of the rural village – people gathered around the porch, talking, a middle-aged woman preparing food at an outside kitchen close to which the rooster is perched.
Footage of Brenda walking away from the house and approaching the camera.
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music, including strings and keyboard, at times soft, other times building to rhythmic and anthemic.
[Text displays]
Seizing the Dream: Gaining skills for a better life
[Video footage]
Text displays on screen in a yellow-shaded frame against a background of out-of-focus footage of Brenda walking past the camera and out of shot.
Interview with Brenda
[Brenda - subtitles]
Most of the women here work in the SM Mall in Laguna. I don’t want that. I don’t want a typical women’s job. I want something that motivates me – body and mind.
[Video footage]
Footage of Brenda riding a motorcycle down a street in the town. The road is paved and bustling with pedestrians, vehicles and other bikers.
Close-up of Brenda against the out-of-focus background of the village.
[Narrator]
Brenda was lucky. An opportunity opened up, training for a job that’s pretty unusual for a woman in the Philippines.
[Video footage]
More footage of Brenda riding her motorcycle on a busy street in a more urban setting.
Wide view of the signboard denoting the pedestrian entrance to the Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp.
Wide view of geese waddling down the road and a terracotta painted boundary wall in the background fencing in a collection of buildings, cutting to and then zooming to a close-up of the entrance to the property where a large poster provides information on the Malampaya Foundation, the BEST programme, and the courses for which scholarships are available.
[Audio]
Geese calls.
[Brenda - subtitles]
They posted it everywhere. So that’s how I found out about how to take a course in welding. I thought why not try and see if I can do it?
[Video footage]
Close-up of Brenda against the out-of-focus background of the village.
[Narrator]
Over ten years ago, Shell and its joint venture partners set up the Malampaya Foundation which runs projects to support and encourage social, environmental and economic development in communities neighbouring the Malampaya Deepwater Gas to Power project.
[Video footage]
Wide view of the larger vehicle entrance to the same group of buildings. A motorcycle passes in the foreground.
Cut to a close-up of the signboards posted at this entrance. The three signboards advertise the Malampaya Foundation and Shell’s other joint venture partners.
More footage of Brenda’s village – Brenda and others gathered on the porch of a house, others walking past, the middle-aged woman preparing food in the outdoor kitchen, a close up of a child.
[Audio]
Motorbike engine sound. Rooster crowing, people chattering in a foreign language.
[Narrator]
One of these, the BEST project, is specifically designed to give opportunities to young people.
[Video footage]
Close-up of water dripping from a palm leaf as it rains in the background.
Footage of a man walking towards the pedestrian entrance as previously described, his umbrella open above him.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 1]
BEST means Bridging Employment through Skills Training which focuses on skills training that leads them into the employment of different courses that we have. So this year we have 465 scholars and 85% of the scholars have their employment this time.
[Video footage]
Close up of a man seated in an office setting, a colleague to his left in the background, cutting to a wide shot of the table around which he and three colleagues are seated.
Close-up of one of the women at the table paging through documents, cutting to a close-up of a laptop screen displaying images below the wording, Best Graduation 2015.
[Narrator]
But Brenda had to work hard to convince the board that she was right for this course.
[Video footage]
Footage of Brenda on her motorcycle, approaching the shot.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 1]
They have to be 21 to 35 years old. They have the high school diploma. And after that, they have to pass the examination, interview and orientation.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the speaker outside the premises previously described, holding an umbrella above his head.
High angle view of the documents also previously described as the woman pages through them. They appear to be applications, with a passport photo attached to each stapled set of pages.
High angle view of the four people seated around the table, all with documents and a laptop in front of them on the table, cutting to a close-up of a multiple choice question paper.
[Unidentified Female Speaker]
We need to choose at least ten best qualified and you’re going to ask them to come over for the interview later.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the woman previously described as paging through the documents, cutting to close-ups of the others around the table while she speaks.
[Brenda - subtitles]
They asked why I chose this job even though I’m a woman. So I said I know I’m tough. I can do this. I can do this.
[Video footage]
Footage of Brenda riding her motorcycle on a busy street.
Close-up of Brenda against the out-of-focus background of the village.
[Narrator]
The interview went well.
[Video footage]
Footage of Brenda riding her motorcycle on a busy street.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 1]
I think Brenda is doing her everything. She has the courage and she has the fire of doing that. It’s, like, her passion.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the speaker outside the premises previously described, holding an umbrella above his head.
[Narrator]
After being selected, Brenda had to go through a four-week course, learning new and challenging skills.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Brenda approaching and walking through an entrance sign-boarded as MHPS-PHL.
Close-up of Brenda putting a protective covering over her head, a mask over her nose and mouth, a safety helmet on her head and safety goggles over her eyes.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 2]
Brenda is very determined to do what she wants to do and push the limits beyond limitation.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Brenda pulling a welding helmet down over all the other protective items.
Close-up of the male speaker in the training environment, also wearing a safety helmet.
Footage of Brenda and an instructor as he trains her in welding technique.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 2]
Brenda is very precise in movement with her welding technique so I think she’s going to go far.
[Video footage]
More footage of Brenda in the training environment, welding pipes.
Close-up of the male speaker in the training environment, as previously described.
[Brenda - subtitles]
Sir, what’s this? Is this the edge where metals are attached?
[Unidentified Male Speaker 3]
Yes, this is the edge designed to be formed like this then metals are attached to it. It should look like this.
[Brenda - subtitles]
It’s small, should be thin.
[Video footage]
Footage of Brenda and her instructor discussing technique.
[Narrator]
Brenda is nervous as the course draws to a close.
[Video footage]
Close-up footage of Brenda and her instructor.
[Brenda - subtitles]
We’ll be graded to see if we pass. It was difficult, but we saw it through to the end.
[Video footage]
Close-up footage of Brenda and her instructor, cutting to an extreme wide view.
Close-up of Brenda against the out-of-focus background of the village.
[Audio]
Rooster crowing, dog barking.
[Narrator]
Her passing grade in her welding technique will allow her to find well-paid jobs in the Philippines or overseas. Some of the best graduates have found work on the Malampaya project. Others have chosen to go abroad.
[Video footage]
Footage of the training environment where Brenda and her fellow students, all dressed in safety gear, work on their welding and inspect parts for welding.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 2]
Some of our best students were dispatched in Australia and Japan and also we had dispatched them in Malaysia.
[Video footage]
More footage of the students in the training environment, cutting to a close-up of the male speaker.
[Narrator]
It seems likely that Brenda will pass and this will change her life forever.
[Video footage]
Footage of Brenda’s village and home, as previously described. Brenda is seated on the porch with friends and lifts a little girl onto her lap as she talks with her friends.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 1]
When we come here, they give a chance, they give an option, they give a choice.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the male speaker seated at the table, a colleague in the background, as previously described.
[Unidentified Male Speaker 2]
It’s not about gender anymore. So as long as they have the will to do what they want to do, and then they would be good in that skills.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the male speaker in the training environment, as previously described, cutting to close-ups of Brenda as she pulls her welding helmet down and works on the pipe she is welding.
[Brenda - subtitles]
Even though it’s hard, I’m going after a better future because I know it’s going to be easier to support my family if I work in welding.
[Video footage]
Footage of the students in the training environment, welding in their cubicles, cutting to a close-up of Brenda listening to her instructor.
Close-up of Brenda against the out-of-focus background of the village.
[Narrator]
The Malampaya Deepwater Gas to Power project is bringing change to the Philippines, not only through the clean burning natural gas now helping to provide around 20% of the country’s energy needs, but through the employment, training and skills opportunities now benefitting people like Brenda.
[Video footage]
Footage by day and then by night of the Malampaya Deepwater platforms and support vessels against the background of the ocean.
Fast motion footage of city streets, buildings and bridges by night.
Close-up in profile of Brenda welding the pipe.
Close-up of Brenda as she talks and laughs with her instructor in the training environment.
More footage of Brenda’s home in the village.
Close-up of a smiling Brenda against the out-of-focus background of her village.
[Audio]
Rooster crowing, people chattering in a foreign language.
[Text displays]
Following filming, Brenda passed the course and found work locally as a welder.
Over 80% of graduates have now found work both locally and internationally.
[Video footage]
Text displays in a white-shaded frame against the out-of-focus background of a city street by night.
[Graphic]
Shell Pecten centred on a white background.
[Audio]
Shell jingle.
Watch: Malampaya: Access to Energy pilot project
Title: Access to Energy
Duration: 4:57 minutes
Description:
A local tribe benefits from the expertise and resources provided by the Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power Project
Shell’s Access to Energy initiative aims to bring power to remote communities by installing renewable energy systems, making use of the local natural resources, such as solar and hydro. Experts from the Shell Philippines Exploration and the Pilipinas Shell Foundation set out to help the Batak tribes people, close to the Philippines’ primary offshore energy project, the Malampaya gas field, to build the infrastructure their remote village needs.
Access to Energy Transcript
[Background Music plays]
Dramatic, emerging ambient music
[Video Footage]
Time-lapse view of sunrise over sea with the Malampaya rig silhouetted in the foreground
Aerial shots of Malampaya rig, a mostly yellow and red, square structure with a huge drill on each corner towering above it, close to shore, surrounded by jetties and ships
[Voice-Over]
“The Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power Project’s one of the largest and most significant industrial endeavours in Philippine history, providing around 20% of the country’s energy needs.”
[Video Footage]
Time-lapse views of a city at night, turning to day
Aerial shot of Palawan Island bays
[Voice-Over]
“However, on Palawan Island next to the gas field, there remain remote and off-grid communities that, even today, have no access to energy.”
[Video Footage]
Shots of village life:
Huts under trees on the edge of the forest
A family sitting on a raised bamboo porch under shade
Two young boys looking at the camera
A woman cooking on an open fire with a boy standing by holding something spiked on a stick
Two children rinsing out a pan as a pig tries to drink the water
View down a shallow river disappearing into the forest.
[Voice-Over]
“But that is about to change.”
[Graphic displays]
River view fades almost to white as yellow text box appears in top left corner with bold red font
[Text displays]
Malampaya Deep-Water Gas-to-Power: Access to Energy Pilot Project
[Background Music plays]
Ambient marimbas
[Video Footage]
Following two white birds flying above the river
Panning down from steep jungle to a clearing with two huts on stilts and laundry hanging out
[Voice-Over]
“Kalakwasa is home to one of the oldest indigenous tribes in the Philippines: the Batak people.”
[Video Footage]
People sitting outside their houses on the porch or hammocks
A boy rolling a motorcycle tyre along the street
[Voice-Over]
“They live simply, deep in the forest.”
[Video Footage]
Close-up of a young girl tearing leaves from a branch to prepare food
Close-up of a man with a long cigarette in his mouth
[Voice-Over]
“There are about 200 people in this community and most are poor.”
[Video Footage]
Close-up of a boy leaning on a stick, looking at the camera
Close-up of a toddler looking at the camera
[Teodorico Villanueva]
Speaking Filipino
[Subtitles]
We lack means of livelihood, we have only a few sources of income.
[Video Footage]
A young man sitting down, whittling a machete handle
Pans across a river to show women and children sitting on the rocks, washing clothes
Close-up of woman wringing out some clothing and placing it on a rock
Teodorico Villanueva speaking
[Text displays]
Teodorico Villanueva
Batak Tribe
[Video Footage]
Woman sitting sideways in a doorway, weaving a basket with a baby sat behind
[Subtitles]
Almaciga, Rattan and Honeybee
[Video Footage]
Close-up of woman’s hands weaving the basket
Shots of a man with a bandana and large basket on his back looking up into a tree, then up in the tree, hacking at a branch
A woman sitting in a hut at night, holding something over a candle
[Voice-Over]
“Without electricity, for this off-grid community to work at night, they burn wood sap wrapped in leaves.”
[Video Footage]
Close-up of candle flame licking the rolled leaves
Pans across a room in a hut where a woman weaves a basket by candlelight
[Voice-Over]
“It provides a small amount of light for only an hour at a time.”
[Teodorico Villanueva]
Speaking Filipino
[Subtitles]
In one night, because of the lack of light source, sometimes we make only two small baskets.
[Video Footage]
Close-ups of the woman’s face focusing on her weaving and the basket near to the burning wood sap
Teodorico speaking by the river
[Background Music plays]
Upbeat acoustic guitar strumming
[Video Footage]
A four-wheel-drive vehicle approaching on a dirt track beside the river
Views from backseat, following another vehicle along the river, and out of the window, passing jungle
Shot from behind of vehicle crossing shallow stream and climbing a steep dirt track
Shots through the windscreen, following other vehicle on track through dense jungle and approaching village, passing sign that says: “THINK first, last & always”
[Voice-Over]
“Today, life is about to change. A team from the Shell Philippines Exploration and the Pilipinas Shell Foundation are making their way through 40 km of dirt track and river streams to reach this remote village.”
[Video Footage]
Silver Navarro wearing hardhats, speaking as workmen in hi-vis jackets and hardhats dig holes in the village in the background
[Text displays]
Silver Navarro
Access to Energy
Technical Consultant
[Silver Navarro]
“There was a survey done to understand the energy needs of the community—what are the available resources in the area.”
[Video Footage]
Shots of a woman in a white jacket with Shell logo and “Pilipinas Shell Foundation Inc. ACCESS TO ENERGY” on the back, speaking to a mother and child
Silver speaking in front of workmen again
[Silver Navarro]
“What technology can be adapted and what operating management can be used to operate and manage the [unclear].”
[Video Footage]
Shots of a group of six people standing around a flipchart under an “Access to Energy” banner, talking
Yoyon Rebueno speaking
[Text displays]
Yoyon Rebueno
Access to Energy Project Officer
Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc.
[Yoyon Rebueno]
Speaking Filipino
[Subtitles]
We saw their need of electricity because the school children, they couldn’t really study at night.
[Video Footage]
Shots of a classroom:
A man walks up to the front of a class of young children to hand the teacher a slip of paper
Close-up of two young boys watching and listening to the teacher
Teacher holding up an open book showing the class a picture
Children’s faces paying attention
[Subtitles]
With the help of Pilipinas Shell Foundation, we’ve set up an energy system for the off-grid community.
[Video Footage]
Yoyon Rebueno speaking
A man tying a bunch of bamboo as a four-by-four pulls up behind
Men in hardhats, goggles and hi-vis jackets and one in jeans and a T-shirt get out of the vehicle
A lady in the group under the Access to Energy banner talking to the others whilst displaying something on a laptop
Close-up of Teodorico nodding
Close-up of a man’s finger pointing to graphics on the laptop screen
[Voice-Over]
“They are installing a hybrid power system for the village, using both the sun’s rays for solar energy, and the power of the river for hydro energy.”
[Video Footage]
Two members of the discussion group in an office looking at a small solar panel and some wires
Close-up of the solar panel powering two lights
Panning shot and close-ups of water flowing over rocks in the river
[Voice-Over]
“A generator for diesel serves as a backup when renewable energy sources are low.”
[Video Footage]
Shots of Silver standing on rocks on the edge of a shallow stream, indicating direction with his arm
[Silver Navarro]
“So what we’ll do is to create a small canal to divert the water, then drive the turbine and produce electricity.”
[Background Music plays]
Ambient music
[Video Footage]
A village hut next to a tall palm tree
Close-up of a workman sawing metal poles with a hacksaw on the ground
Two workmen digging a hole
Close-up of a workman sawing some metal on a workbench
[Voice-Over]
“Following the energy needs assessment, setting up the hydro took two months and over 20 people to construct and install the hydro, solar, and backup diesel generators.”
[Video Footage]
Panning shot of water flowing along a concrete aqueduct and spiralling into a pipe
Shots of four solar panels raised on a grass mound amidst palms and vegetation
Shots of members of the discussion group walking down the street past lots of workmen at work
[Voice-Over]
“Experts in masonry, carpentry, welding, along with the villagers themselves, worked tirelessly to complete the project, ready for its inauguration.”
[Video Footage]
Two workmen tie something on a workbench with red ‘Danger’ tape overhead
A man in shorts, T-shirt and bandana pours a liquid from one large plastic bottle into another
Workmen pause with shovels as man in casual clothes inspects their hole
Shots of a line of workmen carry bags of cement on their heads and members of the discussion group walking past then depositing bags in a tent
Lots of people gathered around mouth of the water canal, chanting “one, two, three…” as two of them lift the gate up for the first time and everyone claps and photography flashes go off
Shot of fuse boxes on a wall
[Background Music plays]
Upbeat, electric guitar music
[Marvi Trudeau]
Speaking Filipino
[Subtitles]
We hope that the electricity that was provided to you will be of great help in your everyday lives.
[Video Footage]
Marvi addressing the villagers, wearing a microphone
[Text displays]
Marvi Trudeau
Programme Manager
Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc.
[Video Footage]
Nine people on a small stage with their hands on a big red button on a yellow box standing on a table in the middle as voice on the microphone counts down
Close-up of their hands pressing the button down
Return to previous shot and they are smiling, some waving their hands and cheering
Close-up of light bulbs slowly illuminating
Everyone around the button looking around and clapping
[Background Music plays]
Plucky ambient music
[Video Footage]
Close-up of water spiralling into the hydro apparatus
[Voice-Over]
“Together, hydro and solar and [unclear] generate around 3 kW of energy: more than enough to light the whole community.”
[Video Footage]
Light bulbs illuminated on an overhead beam
Pans down to show a solar panel attached to some apparatus
Time-lapse view of a village street with new yellow and red streetlights installed, as day turns to night and they illuminate
Close-up of a streetlight at night
View down the street of all the streetlights lit up
An elderly lady laughing in her hut under a light bulb
[Background Music plays]
Dramatic ambient music
[Marcela Magno]
Speaking Filipino
[Subtitles]
We are happy now because we have light every night now
[Text displays]
Marcela Magno
Batak Tribe
[Video Footage]
Marcela speaking outside in the daylight
[Subtitles]
Inside the house is really bright now and also outside.
[Video Footage]
Shots of a woman sitting on the floor of her house with two young girls doing their homework by electric light
A woman weaving a basket on the floor of her house at night
Close-up of her hands weaving
Close-up of her face
She looks at the camera and smiles
[Teodorico Villanueva]
Speaking Filipino
[Subtitles]
Now that we have electricity, she now earns almost Php 200.00 in one night.
[Video Footage]
Teodorico speaking next to the river
[Subtitles]
That’s why the source of light is really of big help.
[Video Footage]
Children playing under the streetlights at night.
Aerial shot of Malampaya rig
[Voice-Over]
“The Malampaya Deepwater Gas-to-Power Project is providing electricity for millions in the big city.”
[Video Footage]
Close-up of the Philippine flag billowing in the wind
Shots of traffic and pedestrians in a busy cityscape
[Voice-Over]
“But it’s also enabling projects like this one in Kalakwasa to happen.”
[Video Footage]
Panning up the street in Kalakwasa, showing streetlights with red and green bunting hung between them
A man sitting with two young girls, smiling at the camera
Close-up of the girls smiling and laughing
[Voice-Over]
“A small project making a big difference.”
[Video Footage]
Three young children sitting in a hammock, laughing, the youngest, a toddler, staring at the camera
Children running and jumping into the river
Five children sitting on a rock after a swim, laughing and waving at the camera
[Graphic displays]
Fades to white with Shell logo in the centre
Watch: Why carbon pricing matters
Title: Why carbon pricing matters
Duration: 3:59 minutes
[Background Music]
Slow instrumental music.
[Text Displays]
Why Carbon Pricing Matters
Message from David Hone
[Video Footage]
David Hone enters from frame left.
The text breaks up into grey and red balls representing carbon dioxide which float up towards the top of the screen.
Wide shot of David Hone standing against white screen.
[Super: Name and title]
David Hone
Chief Climate Change Advisor
For Shell
[David]
“Hydrocarbons are the foundations of a modern society.”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Mid-shot of David against a white background.
Animated red car enters frame-right. David picks it up with his left hand, releasing it to hand mid-screen.
Behind the red car, a plus sign appears and as the car moves slowly screen left, an outfit of shirt, tie and jacket drifts up from bottom frame right, coming to a standstill behind the car.
A red bicycle drifts up from bottom frame right, and joining the line of car and outfit behind another plus sign.
The animated sequence fills the screen as an air conditioner followed by a coffee machine move up from bottom screen right to join the line of items, all with plus signs between them.
The animated graphic breaks into coloured balls and the balls float upwards.
The shot follows the balls up into the graphic of a city skyline.
Zoom out on city skyline as balls continue to rise.
A line drawing forms a pyramid over the city skyline and the coloured balls fill the pyramid.
A vertical measuring line appears alongside the pyramid, with wording.
Wording: Size of Manhattan per day 4km depth
[David]
“Everything, from the cars we drive to the clothes we wear, is powered, created or delivered by their energy. That means almost everything we make and consume indirectly creates carbon dioxide, the by-product of using fossil fuels. In fact, every day we create enough carbon dioxide to cover an island the size of Manhattan with a 4km high pyramid.”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Mid-shot of David against a white background.
Cut to close-up of David’s left arm and hand, appearing to hold the animated graphic of a smartphone, screen filled with coloured balls.
The graphic of the smartphone fills the screen, the coloured balls floating to the top of the smartphone screen, and then out to rise above the smartphone.
A vertical measuring line appears alongside the smartphone screen with wording.
Wording: 100kg
[David]
“Did you know the making and use of a smartphone creates the equivalent of 100kg of carbon dioxide?”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Mid-shot of David against the white background.
To his left, animated balls float up from the bottom of the frame.
An animated outline of an oil barrel floats up with the balls, David moving his hand above the outline as if to guide it up, and the balls settle into the barrel to fill it to a third
Close-up of coloured balls, some forming into the shape of question marks.
Close-up of David in profile, frame-left, seen to be looking at the rising balls and question mark graphics.
Zoom out to mid-shot front view of David, holding his left hand above the balls to bring them down to a lower level.
Cut to close-up of David against the white background, still holding his hand out to the left at waist level.
Close-up of David’s left arm and hand, his hand stopping and keeping the coloured balls from rising further. The balls this time contain different currencies.
[David]
“That’s about the same as burning around a third of a barrel of oil. So how does society meet the growing demand for energy while limiting carbon dioxide emissions? The challenge is to create an economic incentive that controls emissions without limiting the goods and services that hydrocarbons deliver. A solution is for governments to implement carbon pricing policies.”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Extreme wide shot of David walking towards centre-frame against a white background.
Animated graphic of a building appears frame-left of David, labelled beneath as ‘treasury.’
Graphic of a factory appears frame-right of David, labelled beneath as ‘emitter.’
Coloured balls rise from the chimneys of the factory, while large coloured balls bearing currency symbols float in a straight line from right to left, across the figure of David, from the factory to the treasury.
Zooming shot of map of Europe, little groups of coloured balls appearing at various spots on the map.
A web of lines in motion appears between each group of balls, individual balls moving along the lines.
Pans down from map animation back down to David, as he appears to look up at the animation.
[David]
“There are two main ways of doing this. The first option is for governments to tax emissions which directly establishes a price for emitting carbon dioxide. This tax can be offset by a reduction in other taxes, which is what they’ve done in British Columbia. The alternative is to cap emissions, then allow a price to develop through the trading of allowances. This is the route adopted in Europe. Both routes are effective and can drive innovation and change.”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Close-up of front view of David against a white background.
The animated outline of an energy-saving globe appears frame-right of David.
Red and orange balls surround the globe, pulsating outwards.
Cut to mid-shot of David against white background.
Animated graphic appears frame-right, alongside David’s figure.
The graphic shows the outline of a factory, with coloured balls floating up and out the outline of a chimney.
The graphic of the factory is set above a top-section of layers of earth, and a long tunnel appears beneath the factory, running down through the layers of earth, allowing the coloured balls to escape downwards rather than upwards.
A vertical measuring line appears alongside the top-section of earth, with wording.
Wording: [2KM].
Cut to close-up of David against the white background.
Mid-shot of front view of David, pointing with his left hand and arm to an animated graphic.
The animated graphic frame-right of David is of a top-section of earth layers, showing a tunnel running vertically through the centre and down through which the coloured balls are being injected to collect in the very lowest level.
Animated arrows showing the downwards direction of movement appear frame-left of the graphic.
A vertical measuring line appears alongside the top-section of earth, with wording.
Wording: [2KM].
Close-up of David’s left hand pointing to the lower levels of the graphic just described, animated movement of arrows and balls visible.
[David]
“Getting governments to create a price for carbon is the most direct way of changing the existing equation. For example, this approach will stimulate the development of low carbon technologies, like carbon capture and storage; or help lower carbon fuels like natural gas replace higher carbon ones. Carbon capture and storage can limit the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted when we use hydrocarbons to fuel power stations and industry. Emissions are captured and injected deep into the ground.”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Mid-shot of David against a white background.
Zoom to close-up.
Cut to animated graphic depicting three gently floating circular outlines, each containing an image and labelled.
The graphic at the top centre of the frame is of the treasury building, labelled ‘treasury.’
The two graphics below are of a filled shopping basket, frame-left, labelled ‘economy’ and a factory building, frame-right, labelled ‘emitters.’
Cut to mid-shot of David, standing frame-left of the three graphics just described.
David draws an animated circle in front of him using the index finger of his right hand.
David pushes the circle to his left towards the three graphics, still slowly rotating frame right, and the larger circle serves to link the graphics in a cyclical diagram.
[David]
“Carbon pricing policies are designed to change the cost of goods and services, favouring those that result in lower emissions. That is why they work so well. Both the tax and trade-based approach deliver new revenue to the government which can be used to ensure that consumers are not left out of pocket. The end result should be a virtuous circle which sees emissions fall whilst maintaining living standards.”
[Video Footage with Animated Sequence]
Close-up of a slowly rotating molecular-type animated structure of interconnected lines, linking the coloured dots which are now seen to be inscribed with currency symbols.
Zoom out of the slowly rotating structure.
David enters from frame-left to stand beside the animated graphic.
Slow zoom in on David with the graphic slowly moving out of frame.
Cut to mid-shot of David with graphic again visible frame-right.
David touches his left index finger four times over the graphic, causing four more individual circles to appear, each containing an image and moving outwards to be linked to the webbed graphic by individual lines.
The smaller graphics are: a solar panel and sun, labelled solar; a harvester and head of wheat, labelled bio; wind turbines, labelled wind, and the previously described image of coloured balls being injected down through layers of earth, labelled CCS.
[David]
“But a price needs to be put on carbon globally for it to be truly effective. Well-designed policy frameworks have to be in place with national and regional governments taking the lead, and the United Nations providing support. In fact, globally connected carbon pricing policies are an essential tool in tackling climate change. They’ll kick-start a range of measures to shift energy investment worldwide and help the least developed economies build sustainable energy systems. And with strong political backing, their implementation will be straightforward. This in turn creates opportunities for low carbon fuels, products and services.”
[Video Footage]
Close-up of David against white background.
[David]
“All of which makes carbon pricing a powerful, business-focus measure for limiting emissions.”
[Video Footage]
Wide shot of David exiting towards frame left against a white background.
[Audio]
Shell jingle
[Graphic]
Shell logo
[Text appears]
© 2015
www.shell.com/climatechange
Watch: Shell HumRahee road safety programme, India
Title: Shell Humrahee
Duration: 6:16 minutes
Description:
Project Humrahee is one of the many initiatives of Shell which intends to identify quality drivers and provide training to them.
Thousands of Shell staff and contractors across India as well as Asia took part in safety roadshows and hands-on demonstrations at their offices and facilities today to mark Shell's annual Safety Day.
[Background music plays]
Quiet, dramatic music
[Video footage]
A blood-red sun in a smoky sky.
Busy, congested traffic.
Alternating footage of pedestrians walking along very busy roads and views of commuter traffic - bikes, both motorised and pedal-cycle, heavy vehicles, passenger vehicles and tuk-tuks - streaming along.
[Voiceover]
140,000 people die every year on India’s roads. That’s over 2,500 people per week.
[Background music plays]
Music becomes very quiet and subdued and a heartbeat can be heard.
[Video footage]
A woman, holding a young schoolgirl’s hand, keeps a wary eye on traffic as they cross the road.
[Voiceover]
Most of these deaths are caused by human error and could have been prevented.
[Video footage]
Night-time public security video camera footage of traffic streaming along a busy road.
Newspaper clippings of motor vehicle fatalities are slammed down on top of one another. Blood pools around the clippings as they fall.
[Voiceover]
In this challenging environment, Shell has set up a programme that tries to tackle this problem head on.
[Video footage]
Close-up of a seatbelt being buckled. Close-up of a foot depressing an accelerator.
Driving simulator footage of a busy mountain pass.
[Text displays]
Humrahee
[Background music plays]
Music reaches a crescendo. The quiet, dramatic music resumes.
[Video footage]
Dawn or dusk footage of a truck passing by on a busy road.
Various angles, from within the truck cabin, of Ravinder driving.
[Humrahee Certified Driver]
[Ravinder Singh]
[Text displays]
Subtitle of translated speech:
When I was in the twelfth standard in school, I failed that year. So my father asked me to find work for myself and start earning. There used to be truckers driving through our village. I came with them and that is when I learnt how to drive, and started driving.
[Video footage]
Ravinder’s truck travelling along a highway.
Close-up of Ravinder flipping a headlight lever.
Close-up of Ravinder’s face as he navigates traffic.
Rear view of Ravinder’s truck. It is indicating right as it travels along the road.
[Voiceover]
There are so many heavy vehicles drivers like Ravinder in India. They spend their lives travelling hundreds of kilometres every day with little sleep, a deadly combination.
[Video footage]
A road bustling with heavy vehicles. Various scenes, both daytime and night-time, of trucks barreling along busy roads.
View of the road ahead illuminated in a truck’s headlights.
Close-up of Ravinder’s profile as he concentrates on the night-time road ahead.
[Ravinder Singh]
[Text displays]
Subtitle of translated speech:
I was paid well, but risks to life were much higher. For example, I had to reach Calcutta from Mumbai in 36 hours. Even a train cannot reach Calcutta in 36 hours but we were expected to reach there in that much time. Because of this risk to my life I left the job.
[Video footage]
View of heavy night-time traffic from Ravinder’s truck.
Day-time footage from within Ravinder’s truck of trucks whizzing by.
[Voiceover]
But Ravinder’s story is not unique and accidents through fatigue are frequent.
[Video footage]
View from within the truck cabin of Ravinder driving.
A busy road: motorcyclists whizz by, hooting loudly.
Various scenes of heavy daytime and night-time traffic.
[Voiceover]
In this challenging environment Shell responded by setting up a new programme.
[Background music plays]
Music becomes lighter and more uplifting.
[Video footage]
Night-time public security video camera footage of traffic streaming along a busy road.
Daytime public security video camera footage of a busy city intersection.
[Voiceover]
First, driving behaviour was studied across the world, in countries where the rate of accidents was low. They took this learning and created a plan to improve driving patterns of Shell India’s truck drivers. And Humrahee was born.
[Video footage]
Aerial footage of a busy city intersection.
Various scenes of busy city streets.
View across rooftops of a large seaport.
Various scenes of trucks on Indian roads.
Aerial footage of a gate guardhouse, car-park and truck depot.
[Text displays]
Subtitles of speech:
Looking at the data, which we have done some analysis, when we see the tremendous reduction in non-Shell trips also, which is really helping.
[Video footage]
Tony Joseph and a colleague seated in an office, discussing the Hamrahee Project.
[Project Manager, Humrahee]
[Tony Joseph]
I look at road safety as a matter which can change the whole scenario of a family. Today he goes out to work, he is the sole breadwinner of the family, he doesn’t return home. So there are so many people in this country who get impacted by it. The whole family’s social structure itself changes.
[Video footage]
Close-up of truck wheels on a truck on a busy road.
View from inside the truck cabin of Ravinder driving.
Close-up of Ravinder’s left profile.
A view of oncoming traffic. Hooters can be heard blaring.
[Voiceover]
Humrahee is a Hindi word which means travel companion in a long, arduous journey. It is now an independent accreditation programme for India’s heavy vehicle drivers.
[Video footage]
The Shell emblem proudly displayed on the front apex of a building.
Aerial view of a truck depot.
Aerial view of a truck making its way slowly through a weigh station.
Footage, from various angles, of trucks in the depot.
[Tony Joseph]
Humrahee is a comprehensive road safety programme which enables the driver to behave safely on the road. And the driver also becomes an influencer to other drivers to ensure that they also drive safe, which in turn will make our roads safer.
[Background music plays]
Music changes tempo as the beat increases and becomes livelier.
[Video footage]
A man instructs a driver seated in front of a driving simulation console.
View from over the shoulder of a driver using the driving simulation console. The instructor stands by to give advice.
Extreme close-up of a hand turning a key in the ignition.
Close-up of a foot depressing the accelerator.
[Voiceover]
The programme follows multiple steps of modules. It starts by pre-screening drivers to measure their behaviours and attitudes and uses driving simulators to mimic road conditions.
[Video footage]
The driving simulation office: a driver and instructor are busy at the console in the background.
Various screen shots of settings on the driving simulator screen.
Close-up of a driver’s hands on the steering-wheel.
Close-up of the driver’s face as he concentrates on the simulator screen.
The instructor offers advice to the driver.
[Trainer, Humrahee]
[Subba Rao]
Simulation is a good practice for the driver. Whatever he is supposed to do on the actual road, he will be practising it himself, so lane driving, discipline, road rules and regulations and hilly driving, night driving, foggy driving.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the traffic seen on the simulator screen.
Close-up of driver’s hands on the simulator steering-wheel.
Simulator screen: a country road with minimal traffic approaching from the right.
Simulator screen: a large intersection in foggy conditions.
Close-up of the driver’s hand shifting gears.
Simulator screen: a moderately busy mountain pass. The truck’s windscreen wipers are in use.
Simulator screen: a night-time country road, with traffic approaching from the right.
Simulator screen: a rural dirt road, in dense fog, with slow oncoming traffic on the right.
[Voiceover]
Evaluations, behavioural profiling and eye tests are all part of the programme. Each driver needs to spend a minimum of 30 hours over a 6-month period training.
[Video footage]
Close-up of a hand pressing a key on a keyboard.
Simulator screen showing settings for driving.
Subba, the driving instructor, giving advice to a driver seated at the driving simulator.
Simulator screen: a narrow mountain pass, with moderate amount of traffic approaching from the right. The windscreen wipers are in use.
Close-up of the driver’s hands on the steering-wheel.
The driving simulation office: a driver and instructor are busy at the console in the background.
[Voiceover]
300 drivers are currently going through Humrahee. 80 have graduated.
[Music ends]
[Voiceover]
The difference with Humrahee is that the training doesn’t stop in the classroom.
[Background music plays]
Light, uplifting music
[Video footage]
Sabba, the driving instructor, is addressing a classroom-full of truck drivers.
[Subba Rao]
[Text displays]
Subtitles of translated speech:
We use this P-drive when we go for the practical driving assessment. We fix this on the windscreen and this instrument faces the road and it records all that is on the road.
[Video footage]
Subba and a truck driver walk across the parking lot which has several parked trucks in it.
Close-up of P-drive instrument in Subba’s hands.
[Voiceover]
The journey is recorded and analysed back at the centre. This monitoring system can record drivers’ behaviours 1,000 miles away, their speed, their braking and their pit stops.
[Video footage]
View from within the truck cabin of Ravinder driving.
Sped-up footage of two-way traffic on a six-lane bridge spanning a wide body of water.
View of a laptop screen, as seen from over the shoulder of a man examining the screen.
Subba discusses the video footage on the laptop with a driver.
[Tony Joseph]
My dream will be to have this as a standard for the country. Our roads are going to be much more safer; we will have less orphaned families, less widows in this country on this context.
[Video footage]
The truck depot: the driver door closes of a large truck closes. The truck pulls up to the gate of the depot, preparing to leave.
Tony analysing graphs on a computer screen.
Ground-level view of a driver closing the truck door.
View from the front as the truck makes its way fairly slowly along a narrow street.
[Voiceover]
But the programme doesn’t just deal with driving; it also looks into the overall health of the driver, including things like nutrition and sanitation. And Humrahee doesn’t just affect the lives of the drivers; it also affects the lives of the families.
[Video footage]
A truck on a less busy road.
View of apartment buildings.
Pedestrians on a busy street.
A mother holding a toddler as she walks through a busy public area.
Close-up of a woman laughing.
Ravinder and his three children make their way alongside the pavement on a busy street and enter the grounds of an apartment block.
[Ravinder’s wife]
[Anita Chauhan]
[Text displays]
Subtitles of translated speech:
He isn’t as stressed out as he used to be.
[Video footage]
View through a living room window of Ravinder seated on a couch alongside his children, the youngest on his lap.
View from inside the living room of Ravinder seated on the couch with his family. He is interacting with the youngest child.
[Anita Chauhan]
[Text displays]
Subtitles of translated speech:
When he comes home early and takes the children to the park, then the children are happy and he feels good.
[Video footage]
Ravinder, accompanied by his children, strolling along through the grounds of the apartment block.
[Director Operations, SaveLife Foundation]
[Saji Cherian]
Humrahee is an incredible concept, and I want to congratulate Shell for developing this concept. And I wish a number of corporates and other entities will take it up.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the driving simulator screen. The driver’s left profile is just visible. The screen shows a lonely country road.
Close-up of the driver’s hand shifting gears.
Simulator screen: building façade and traffic moving through an intersection ahead.
[Tony Joseph]
The impact has been stupendous. We see a drastic improvement. Now our drivers are much safer.
[Video footage]
Pedestrians crossing a busy road, weaving in and out of traffic as they do.
Close-up of truck wheels as they whizz by.
Close-up of Ravinder’s face as he concentrates on driving his truck.
View of Ravinder’s truck approaching on a busy road.
Aerial footage of the truck depot.
[Voiceover]
Humrahee has been running for over three years. Based on statistics collected over almost one year, Humrahee drivers were found to be nearly six times safer than non-Humrahee-trained drivers, continuing Shell’s journey to protect India’s roads and its people.
[Video footage]
Subba assisting a driver to buckle himself into the simulator driver’s seat.
Close-up of the seatbelt being buckled.
Close-up of a hand shifting the truck’s gear lever.
Close-up of foot depressing the accelerator.
View of the simulator screen as seen over the driver’s shoulder.
Simulator screen: a dusty, rural road, with heavy oncoming traffic approaching from the right. The conditions are very foggy.
Close-up of a driver’s hand shifting gears in a truck.
View of the rear of a large truck driving along a narrow road.
Close-up of symbols and, presumably, Hindu writing on the truck bumper as it whizzes past camera.
The truck slowly negotiates a curve on a dirt road.
View from the rear of the truck driving along a four-lane highway.
Aerial view of a busy six-lane highway.
[Graphic displays]
Shell logo
[Music ends]
Watch: Improving standards in biofuels production
Title: Shell Biofuels
Duration: 7:34 minutes
Description:
Shell’s efforts to support and grow a sustainable palm oil industry in Thailand.
[Background music plays]
[Video footage]
Busy traffic in an Asian city.
People on the streets of an Asian city
[Narration]
Mobility is critical to our daily lives. But transport accounts for a quarter of global CO2 emissions.
[Video footage]
Busy traffic in an Asian city.
[Narration]
Demand for transport is expected to grow rapidly, especially in fast developing parts of the world like Asia.
[Video footage]
Busy traffic in an Asian city.
Sped up footage of busy traffic in an Asian city.
[Narration]
And to meet this demand, whilst lowering CO2 emissions, the world will need sustainable transport solutions.
[Video footage]
[Text displays]
Improving Standards in Biofuels Production
Independent Smallholder Support
In Thailand
[Video footage]
Oil palm trees in a plantation
[Narration]
Biofuels are renewable fuels. Over the coming decades, they could be one way to help reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector.
[Video footage]
Sunlight through branches in the plantation
Fruit on the oil palm
[Narration]
The oil palm lives for around 25 years, and bears fruit within five years. Its oils can be mixed with diesel to make biofuel.
[Video footage]
Ants crawling on palm fruit
Driving past oil palm plantation
[Narration]
In Thailand, the fruit can be harvested all year round, making it a good source of biofuel.
[Video footage]
Long pan across oil palm plantation
Interview with Kamolpat Bahalyodhin
[Title]
Mr Kamolpat Bahalyodhin [Indecipherable]
[Kamolpat]
Biofuel, to Thailand, is very important to the country, and it’s also very important to the agriculture industry. With biofuels, the country is able to reduce the import of petroleum products into the country, saving the country the moneys. It also help palm oil farmers with their income.
[Video footage]
Oil palms against a blue sky
Palm fruit on the palm
Oil palm trees in a plantation, panning to workers in the distance.
[Narration]
The Thai government encourages the use of palm oil. As part of its ten year plan, it wants a quarter of energy use to come from renewable sources by 2021.
[Video footage]
Various footage of oil palm plantation activities
[Narration]
Thailand is now one of the world’s largest producers of palm oil globally. Today, more than 120,000 farmers cultivate palm oil here. Most of them are independent small holders, with four to seven hectares of land.
Interview with Sophon Thongsakul
[Title]
Mr Sophon Thongsakul [Indecipherable]
[Sophon]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
In 1986 I have more than 200 rais.
Because I’ve planted palm for 200 rais.
I never get tired of it. But selling is difficult.
I cry sometimes when I sell the palm, because the price keeps going down.
[Video footage]
Sunlight through branches in the plantation
Oil palms in a plantation
[Narration]
Many of these farms produce low yields, and poor quality palm oil.
Interview with Sanin Triyanand
[Title]
Mr Sanin Triyanand [Indecipherable]
[Sanin]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
Many of them sometimes don’t care about environmental issues, or
good ways to operate their farms.
[Video footage]
Oil palms in a plantation
[Sanin]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
But when the price went real low, the farmers started to realise
that if they don’t do anything about it , they won’t survive.
[Video footage]
Oil palms in a plantation
Distant mountains in the countryside
Trucks and motorcycles on rural road
Close up of palm fruit being driven on a truck
Truck on a rural road
[Narration]
Shell is one of the largest biofuel blenders today, and has been working to improve sustainability standards in its supply chain for many years.
[Video footage]
Truck pulls up to plantation buildings
Exterior of Patum Vegetable Oil building with logo
[Narration]
In 2012, Shell and Patum Vegetable Oil in Thailand started the sustainable palm oil project.
[Video footage]
Lens of video projector and screen presentation: RSPO SUCCESS/MB
Teacher speaking in classroom
Farmers studying in classroom
Teacher speaking in classroom
Farmers in classroom applauding
[Narration]
The project helped the farmers meet the standards set by the roundtable on sustainable palm oil, or RSPO, and so produce palm oil in a more sustainable way.
[Kamolpat]
What Shell is doing is, like it’s providing opportunity and raising the standard skills of small holder farmers into the international standard level.
[Video footage]
Pan from sky through treetops into a village meeting
[Narration]
The project provided training on good farm management, the use of fertilisers, safety, and the environment.
[Video footage]
Outdoor training session in progress with two instructors
Villagers watching training session
[Kamolpat]
In the beginning, when we launched this project, we seemed to get a bit of resistance, and some sceptical from the farmers. We’re trying to tell them that, you know, the eight principles of RSPO, with this eight principles this would help them improve their harvesting, their living standards, considering the effort that Patum and Shell has put in, and never wanting anything back in return.
[Video footage]
Villagers watching training session
[Kamolpat]
From then onward there seemed to be a good trust issue, and things seemed to be, you know, going a lot better.
[Sanin]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
We got more than 2,000 farmers to join the program
[Video footage]
Villagers watching training session
[Sanin]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
It takes them 2 to 3 years to learn and work together, till they are ready to be certified
[Video footage]
Palm fruit after harvest going through processing
[Narration]
Shell and Patum wanted the farmers, mills and refineries to benefit from improved agricultural practices, whilst protecting the land, the environment, and local communities.
[Video footage]
Two smoke stacks sending white clouds into the air.
[Sanin]
Normally, farmers and mills, they never work together. In this programme, you have to take these two gentlemen to sit together, and talk them through everything that they have to work together. And at the end, it came out right. You know, they become partners, they become friends.
[Video footage]
Outdoor training session in progress with two instructors
Villagers watching training session
[Narration]
800 farmers are now RSPO certified.
[Video footage]
Distant mountains in the countryside
Farmers working on palm plantation.
[Narration]
Choawalit Wuttipong is a trained RSPO farmer. He is now the chairman of one of the farming groups, guiding the farmers, sharing his knowledge, and encouraging the mills and farmers to work closely together.
Interview with Choawalit Wuttipong
[Title]
Mr Choawalit Wuttipong [Indecipherable]
[Choawalit]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
In the past, I didn’t know much about palm oil like I do now.
[Video footage]
Farmers working on palm plantation.
[Choawalit]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
I learned about the growth stage, when palm starts to flower. The
time taken for the fruit to ripen and how to manage the palm at
each growth stage.
[Video footage]
Choawalit instructing a Nisara Sriawut on the palm plantation.
Sunlight through branches in the plantation
Farmers working on palm plantation, harvesting palm fruit.
[Narration]
Through improved agricultural practices, farmers can increase yields by up to 50%.
[Video footage]
Palm fruit loaded onto a slow moving van in the plantation
[Narration]
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates this could mean an additional income per farmer of nearly US$500 per hectare per year.
Interview with Satit Thongsak
[Title]
Mr Satit Thongsak [Indecipherable]
[Satit]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
Being involved in the program means acquiring more knowledge
about fertilizers
[Text display - subtitles]
how to manage and maintain the plantation
to improve the quality of palm production.
Interview with Nisara Sriawut
[Title]
Mrs Nisara Sriawut [Indecipherable]
[Nisara]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
They gave us knowledge. At first, I didn’t know in depth details
about palm trees, the need for fertilizers, nutrients
[Video footage]
Choawalit instructing a Nisara Sriawut on the palm plantation.
[Nisara]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
They explained and gave me additional advice.
[Choawalit]
[Thai language spoken]
[Text display - subtitles]
I think that in the long term, if the group stays together,
and be strong to continue to work together to improve
[Text display - subtitles]
I think the farmers will become stronger and be independent.
[Video footage]
Villagers eat together after training session
[Narration]
RSPO certification is a win for everyone. A win for the farmers and the mills through improved yields and higher quality palm fruit.
[Video footage]
Various shots of coastline and beach
[Narration]
A win for Shell and Patum, who want to source biofuels produced in a sustainable way. And a win for the environment, protecting the local land and helping to reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector.
[Video footage]
Coastal sunset
Shell logo
Watch: Shell Oman: a natural way to filter water
Shell Oman: a natural way to filter water
Duration: 1:48 minutes
Transcript
[Music plays]
[Caption]
A natural way to filter water
In the desert of Oman, water is being cleaned using only reeds, gravity, sunlight ... and hungry microbes
[Visuals]
Shots throughout the video show the Nimr oil fields, pumps and the surrounding desert and the fields of reeds.
[Voice over]
At the Nimr oilfields in Oman, thousands of barrels of oil are produced every day. But only a tenth of liquid brought to the surface is actually oil - the rest is water, which must be cleaned and disposed of.
In the past, Petroleum Development Oman has pumped the water back underground. But this is costly, and uses energy.
A new approach uses reed beds to purify the water before it evaporates naturally beneath the desert sun.
Using the new technique, most of the crude oil is first separated from the water. Traces of oil, however, remain in the water. Pulled only by gravity, the oily water then flows downhill through about one and a half kilometres of reeds.
As it passes through, the oil sticks to the reeds, and is eaten by natural microbes living on the plant. By the time it reaches the bottom of the fields, the water is 99.5% pure, and can be left to evaporate safely in the sun.
[Caption: Roman Breuer, Bauer Umwelt, GmbH, Oman]
"The four purification stages have removed everything that's left after the oil has been separated. The reeds have also dealt with the organic substances dissolved in the water".
[Voice over]
After a successful trial, the plant has been expanded to more than double its size. Engineers also hope that the process can soon be used elsewhere.
[Caption: Roman Breuer, Bauer Umwelt, GmbH, Oman]
"A plant like this could reduce energy consumption for water purification to almost zero".
[Caption]
Thanks to Bauer Resources GmbH
Watch: Shell at Dawson Creek: Preserving fresh water through innovation
Title: Shell at Dawson Creek: Preserving fresh water through innovation
Duration: 3:01 minutes
[Carson Newby, Community Liaison Office, Groundbirch]
My name is Carson Newby, I'm Shell's Community Affairs Rep for the Groundbirch Venture here in Groundbirch, British Columbia.
The Groundbirch Venture is located in northeast BC, or British Columbia, and it's situated near the communities of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and the village of Chetwynd.
[Manuel Willemse, Development Manager, Groundbirch]
Groundbirch is a very large piece of land, about 30 by 50 kilometres, that has a big resource in it of clean natural gas.
There's not only production coming from it which is about enough for two and a half million homes when it's fully up and running, it'll also live for about 40 years of production life.
[Carson Newby, Community Liaison Office, Groundbirch]
The Groundbirch area is like many other communities - it centres around water availability or access to water.
The ranching and farming community that's here has told us repeatedly how important water is to their lifestyle.
[Mike Bernier, Mayor, Dawson Creek]
One of the issues that we have is, the oil and gas industry requires a lot of water.
With the community really growing right now, it's something we really have to be cognisant of to make sure that it's a sustainable resource.
[Rej Tetrault, Operations Manager, Groundbirch]
We minimise the use of fresh water through recycling of the existing water that we have in the system.
What you can see here is actually a big part of that.
On the one side we have a pond that holds nothing but produced water, and this is water that comes back from our wells following the fracking process.
[Manuel Willemse, Development Manager, Groundbirch]
We were using water from ponds which are also used to actually water cattle and we would draw water from the river.
We were looking, as a company, for better sources of water that were less taxing on the environment and the community, and, at that time, it happened to line up that the city of Dawson Creek came out with a proposal to seek industry support for making more of their waste water.
[Mike Bernier, Mayor, Dawson Creek]
We had a discussion around council and it was actually somewhat in jest we made a joke that, "What if we used the water at our sewer lagoon?”
Shell came forward with a really great proposal of how they could partner with the community, partner with the city and we'd be able to make a project that was something that would benefit all of us.
[Rej Tetrault, Operations Manager, Groundbirch]
We partnered with the city to treat the water to a standard that would essentially allow the city to use that water to water lawns, service other industrial users, and we would be one of those industrial users.
[Manuel Willemse, Development Manager, Groundbirch]
This project is a big win-win, and I'm actually quite proud that I'm part of that project.
Lots of cities we know have tried to engage with Dawson Creek, to copy this and make more out of their waste water, so I have good hope that both in Shell as well as in the wider nation that some people will follow the thinking like this.
[Mike Bernier, Mayor, Dawson Creek]
This has been one of those amazing projects, that started with a small idea, that has not only worked out for Shell, but it's going to be beneficial for decades to come for the city of Dawson Creek.
[Caption]
Shell and the City of Dawson Creek officially opened the Reclaimed Water facility on September 7th, 2012.
Watch: Natural gas for health
Gas for health
Duration: 3:10 minutes
Description:
Around 700 million Indians still rely on solid fuels like coal, dung and crop residue for cooking. These often take many hours to source and can be harmful to inhale. In the Western state of Gujarat, where Shell's Hazira joint venture supplies natural gas to industries, a government-led initiative is also bringing piped gas to villages, supplied by Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation.
Gas for health – transcript
[Background music plays]
Dramatic instrumental music.
[Audio]
Crackling fire sounds.
[Video footage]
Footage of Ushaben placing wood into the fire pit in her home.
Extreme close-up of Ushaben as she blows on the fire, sweat beading on her forehead, cutting to a close-up of a large pot of food simmering on the fire.
[Narrator]
Ushaben spends three hours a day cooking for her family, like millions of women in rural India.
[Video footage]
More footage of Ushaben on her haunches, stoking the fire beneath the pot of food. Smoke rises up from the fire.
Extreme close-ups of the log fire and Ushaben’s sweat-beaded face.
Interview with Ushaben
[Title]
Villager / Gujarat, India
[Text displays]
Ushaben
Villager / Gujarat, India
[Ushaben - subtitle]
We bring the wood and burn it in fireplace.
[Video footage]
Close-up in profile of Ushaben’s sweat-beaded face, cutting to a mid-shot of Ushaben facing the camera, the rough brick walls of her home in the background.
[Ushaben - subtitle]
Due to the smoke, both me and the children cough. We sweat and our eyes start to tear. This is the harm it causes our bodies.
[Video footage]
Low angle close-up in profile of a small boy against the background of the home’s tin roof, reaching up to Ushaben who is out of shot. This dissolves to footage of smoke billowing up towards the roof.
[Audio]
Child coughing.
[Video footage]
Rear-view close-up of the child coughing, cutting to a low-angle footage of Ushaben caressing his head, as he wipes his eyes with her clothing.
Mid-shot of Ushaben facing the camera, the rough brick walls of her home in the background.
Footage of Ushaben and the child seated on the floor of the home as smoke billows from the fire.
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music with strings.
[Narrator]
Air pollution is the world’s single largest environmental health risk. An estimated 700 million people in India still rely on solid fuels like coal, dung and crop residue for domestic cooking.
[Video footage]
Footage of smoke billowing from the top of a factory chimney, dissolving to a wide shot of an industrial area, with black smoke billowing from the factory chimney and across the skies just above the canopy of roofs.
Low-angle footage of vehicles approaching on a busy road. The skyline in the background is filled with factory chimneys.
Footage of street-side vendor carts, with bicycles passing in the foreground, cutting to a wide view of another busy street lined with multi-story buildings and filled with oncoming traffic and pedestrians.
Footage of pedestrians walking the busy city streets, cutting to wide view of two women walking down a sidewalk, both carrying burdens on their head. The sidewalk is lined with laundry that has been hung out to dry.
Low-angle view of a building where a number children are visible through the large window, but the windows are covered with burglar guards and mesh.
Low-angle view of residents entering and exiting two doorways respectively. The doors open right onto the street. An old cart, a motorcycle and laundry are visible outside the homes.
[Narrator]
Here, at the local clinic, the majority of patients are women and children and most have respiratory issues.
[Video footage]
High angle view of people walking over the sidewalk towards the entrance of the local clinic.
Footage from the doctor’s office, including a close-up of a patient’s face as she speaks, a high angle view of the patient seated across the desk from the doctor, and a close-up of the doctor as he speaks.
Interview with Dr. Manohar Ghemawat
[Title]
Village Doctor / Gujarat, India
[Text displays]
Dr Manohar Ghemawat
Village Doctor / Gujarat, India
[Dr. Manohar Ghemawat]
Because of the wood burning stoves, there are diseases related to lungs like respiratory tract infection that may lead, in advanced stages, to lung cancer.
[Video footage]
Low-angle close-up of Dr Ghemawat, against the background of his clinic office.
Footage of the doctor taking the patient’s blood pressure, cutting back to the low-angle close-up of Dr Ghemawat as previously described.
[Dr. Manohar Ghemawat]
The second thing is the burning eye and early cataract.
[Video footage]
Footage of the doctor inspecting the patient’s eyes.
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music with strings.
[Narrator]
Across the country, exposure to smoke emissions from household solid fuels is estimated to cause 500,000 deaths and 500 million illnesses annually, according to the WHO.
[Video footage]
Footage of a pink-hued sky, showing black smoke billowing up into the skies, dissolving to footage of Ushaben carrying the child on her hip and walking towards the entrance of her home.
Extreme wide shot of an elderly woman exiting a building and crossing a courtyard.
Footage of a busy sidewalk, motorbikes passing in the foreground, cutting to a woman seated next to a fire pit, using her clothing to shield her face from the smoke.
More footage of a pink-hued sky filled with billowing black smoke.
[Background music plays]
Synthesised instrumental music with xylophone effect.
[Narrator]
However, in some areas of Gujarat, the picture is quite different.
[Video footage]
Low-angle rear view of young people walking along a street, approaching residential buildings.
Pan to close-up of Rameelaben, cutting to a footage of Rameelaben entering her neat kitchen and crossing to her gas stove, which she lights before placing a pot on the stove.
Interview with Rameelaben
[Title]
Villager / Gujarat, India
[Text displays]
Rameelaben
Villager / Gujarat, India
[Rameelaben - subtitle]
Before, we had to search for wood and it would take 2 hours. Then we would go to work, come home, place the wood in the fireplace before we can start cooking, which takes another 1 to 2 hours. When we started using gas, we had extra time for work.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Rameelaben as she speaks.
Footage of Rameelaben lifting a bundle of firewood onto another woman’s head, who then walks down the street, heading home.
Close-up of Rameelaben as she speaks.
[Narrator]
Using piped gas, women can save up to five hours every day, which also helps them increase their household income.
[Video footage]
Footage of Rameelaben turning on the gas valve, and pouring a handful of rice into the pot on the stove.
Low-angle close-up of Rameelaben, cutting to a wide view of her standing at the stove.
[Rameelaben - subtitle]
With extra time on our hand, we work as house help and earn 1500 rupees more per month.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Rameelaben as she speaks.
Interview with Nitin Shukla
[Title]
CEO Hazira LNG and Port
[Nitin Shukla]
Yes, Transmission Networks in Gujarat has helped tremendously in…
[Video footage]
Footage of Rameelaben talking with a friend, the two ladies and a child seated on a bed in a large pink and blue painted room. The room’s décor includes a TV screen and several framed pictures.
Footage of the clean, pink-painted wall where it meets the roof.
[Text displays]
Nitin Shukla
CEO Hazira LNG & Port
[Nitin Shukla]
…increasing the use of gas in the energy basket.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Nitin Shukla, pale blue skies and a large tank forming the background.
Interview with Kartikeya Sarabhai
[Title]
Founder and Director Centre for Environment Education
[Kartikeya Sarabhai]
Suppose gas was a little more expensive – it’s still better because you take the total benefit of it.
[Video footage]
Low-angle view of a line of power pylons and cables, foliage and green grass in the foreground.
Low-angle footage of trucks passing below and then fully revealing a pylon standing tall against the blue sky, cables stretching out from it in either direction.
Close-up of Kartikeya Sarabhai against a background of green foliage.
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music with piano and strings.
[Kartikeya Sarabhai]
I think people are now convinced that it’s good for them. It’s good for their health, their dignity, their working – and I think that’s very important and I think that’s where the government support is very useful.
[Video footage]
Footage of people on the streets of Gujarat, some seated, some walking alongside the traffic on the busy streets, some on motorcycles, others crossing the street as traffic races past.
Close-up of Kartikeya Sarabhai against a background of green foliage.
Footage of Rameelaben in her pink and blue-painted living room, seated across from a smiling young man with a child on his lap.
[Text displays]
Kartikeya Sarabhai
Founder & Director Centre for Environment Education
[Narrator]
Gujarat is the first state to connect some of its villagers to piped gas for cooking.
[Video footage]
More footage of Rameelaben’s family – close-ups of the smiling young man, of the child on his lap, of a young girl, and of Rameelaben.
[Narrator]
An aspiration, according to the Prime Minister, is to expand this to several other states.
[Video footage]
More footage of the people of Gujarat – a teeming crowd of Indian pedestrians; two woman walking down a street, chatting; and several young children seated together indoors, books on the laps of some.
Low-angle view of a boy walking down a street, a toddler on his shoulders, other children running alongside in the street.
[Narrator]
Good news for India. Great news for the health of India’s women and children.
[Video footage]
Close-up of the young boy previously seen in Ushaben’s home.
Mid-shot of a smiling Ushaben facing the camera, the rough brick walls of her home in the background.
Close-up of a smiling Rameelaben.
[Text displays]
#GasForHealth
[Audio]
Shell jingle.
[Text displays]
© Shell International Limited 2016
Watch: Building a better future: New lifelines on Luzon island
Title: Building a better future: New lifelines on Luzon
Duration: 4:08 minutes
Description:
Marco’s Story, Building a Better Future
Marco Camacho used to work in the garment industry in the Philippines. He applied for the Shell scholarship and took a course for insulators which gave him skills in insulating pipes and other equipment. This allowed him to get a job with a local firm which was helping on the upgrade project at the nearby Shell Tabangao refinery. The training programme has a strong focus on safety and allows Marco and many others from the area to gain vital hands-on experience and trade skills, thus building a better future for themselves.
[Background music plays]
Instrumental music
[Video footage]
View of a tree and a house made out of bamboo. Pan to the side where we can see two children. Shot of a lady inside the house folding laundry. Close-up shot of the two children, a girl and an older boy.
[Voiceover]
When Marco Camacho’s widowed mother brought the family to a village near Batangas City in the Philippines…
[Video footage]
Close-up shot of a Marco working with a sewing machine. Wider shot of Marco.
[Voiceover]
At just 15 years of age Marco had to start earning money. Pretty soon he was working in the garment industry. But after five years a better opportunity came along.
[Video footage]
View of Marco sitting outside his house being interviewed. Behind him, there is a bamboo structure.
Interview with Marco Camacho
[Marco Camacho]
[Foreign language]
[Text displays]
My cousin encouraged me to apply for a Shell scholarship. I took the exam. After a week, I found out I made it. I chose to take a course for insulators.
[Video footage]
Shot of Marco and another male behind a brown object on a table. Marco is using a saw on the object. They are both wearing masks and a helmet. Back to the aforementioned shot of Marco being interviewed at his home.
[Voiceover]
The course has given Marco skills in insulating pipes and other equipment. This has meant he could get a job with a local firm which is helping upgrade the nearby Shell Tabangao refinery to meet new environmental fuel standards. It’s win-win. Marco and others like him gain vital hands-on experience and the upgrade project is carried out quickly and efficiently.
[Video footage]
Various shots of Marco and the other male at work. Outside view of the Shell Tabangao refinery. Various shots of people at work in the refinery.
Interview with Ed Chua
[Former Country Chairman, Shell Companies in the Philippines]
[Ed Chua]
This project actually is a very complex project and one which is very important for Shell and for the country.
[Video footage]
Shot of Ed Chua being interviewed. Sped up footage of a very large pipe-like structure being transported and then installed at the refinery. Shot of Arnel Santos being interviewed.
Interview with Arnel Santos
[Former Vice President, Manufacturing Operations East, Shell]
[Arnel Santos]
This is the first project of this magnitude that the site in the process of executing for the last 25 years.
[Ed Chua]
This is about confidence in the country. This is about continued training and development opportunities for our people.
[Video footage]
Various shots of people at work in the Shell refinery.
[Arnel Santos]
It’s our investment for the future generation.
[Video footage]
Shot of Marco walking, approaching his home. He is wearing a yellow jumpsuit.
Interview with Marco Camacho
[Text displays]
Marco’s Story
Building A Better Future
[Background music plays]
Piano music
[Video footage]
Shot of the refinery. Several workers can be seen walking towards a bus. They step onto the bus. Shot taken inside the bus as the workers take their seats. Various shots of the workers inside the refinery.
[Voiceover]
Like Marco, hundreds of others from the area have taken part in training programmes supported by Shell, giving them the trade skills needed for this kind of work. The trickiest part of the project involves hooking the new components into the original plant.
[Video footage]
Close-up shot of a large sign posted at the refinery. It says danger, men working above, with a large red arrow pointing upwards. Various shots of the workers at the plant. They are all wearing safety gear. Another sign saying danger, steam blowing in progress, is shown.
[Voiceover]
Many more construction workers than usual are busy across the plant. This work is anything but routine and Marco is very aware of the hazards that this type of work can bring.
[Marco Camacho]
[Foreign language]
[Text displays]
Being an insulator is tricky work. When you cut some materials, you have to avoid breathing in the flying particles and dust. The culture of safety starts within you. And if you’re not careful, other people will step in and remind you to think about safety.
[Video footage]
We follow Marco around the plant. Back to the aforementioned shot of Marco being interviewed at his home. Shot of several workers standing in a semi-circle paying attention to one male giving safety instructions.
[Voiceover]
On top of this, there are programmes in place for plant employees and contractors alike to make sure safety remains a priority for all.
[Video footage]
Shot of the workers are trying out some of the safety gear. Shot of a worker pointing to a wall with several posters explaining the importance of safety.
[Unidentified Shell worker]
[Foreign language]
[Text displays]
So we have the 12 Life Saving Rules.
[Voiceover]
But safety isn’t the only concern.
[Video footage]
Close-up shot of a partly collapsed bridge. It is raining and there is heavy wind. Close-up shot of part of the bridge collapsed into a river.
[Voiceover]
Partway through the project typhoon Glenda with winds of up to 260 kilometres per hour washes out roads and bridges, risking vital materials not getting through.
[Video footage]
Night-time shot of the refinery. Sped up footage of parts being delivered and assembled at the refinery. Shot of Marco at work at the plant. Back to the shot of Marco being interviewed at home.
[Voiceover]
But the team manages to bring them in at night when access via one bridge is permitted. Despite this major challenge, the upgrade can be completed on time and on budget. The project success is in part down to Marco and hundreds of others like him.
[Marco Camacho]
[Foreign language]
[Text displays]
I am happy. Not everybody gets the opportunity to work here, or anywhere for that matter. The money I earned in my previous jobs wasn’t enough. My job today provides me with enough.
[Video footage]
Shot of Marco at work at the plant. Back to the shot of Marco being interviewed at home. Shot of many workers at the plant. Back to shot of Marco at work.
[Voiceover]
This opportunity to receive training and employment has been a lifeline for Marco and his family. And even though the upgrade at Tabangao is now finished, Marco can go on to other jobs thanks to the skills he’s learned fit for the future.
[Background music plays]
Shell jingle
[Text displays]
Shell logo
Watch: Building a new generation of engineers: The Bonga deep-water oil field
Title: Bonga
Duration: 2:54 minutes
Description:
The Bonga deep-water oil field, Nigeria’s first oil and gas project, featuring one of the world’s largest floating production, storage and offloading vessels, or FPSO.
[Background music plays]
Stately instrumental music.
Interview with Prince Nwocha
[Title]
Operations Supervisor, Bonga
[Prince]
One, two, three…
[Justin]
One, two, three, four, five.
[Prince]
My son, Justin, likes computation, mathematics, playing with things. And I can see that engineering streak coming out in him.
[Video footage]
Footage of Prince with his son seated around a coffee table in a living room, playing a numbers-related game on the table in front of them.
Wide view of Justin walking between Prince and presumably his mother along a street lined with parked vehicles, cutting to a mid-shot of Prince as he approaches the open rear door a black vehicle, Justin on his hip and a school bag in his other hand.
[Text displays]
Prince Nwocha / Operations Supervisor, Bonga
[Prince]
My name is Prince Nwocha. I'm the first engineer in my family.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Prince against the living room background.
[Narrator]
That’s a role Prince doesn’t take lightly. It’s why he spends nearly half the year here.
[Video footage]
Footage of Prince placing Justin’s school bag into the trunk of the car while Justin leans over from the back seat. Prince closes the trunk.
Footage from a helicopter of the Bonga oil platform and FPSO in the ocean, cutting to footage of the cloudy skies as text displays in the upper part of the frame.
[Text displays]
Building a new generation of engineers / The Bonga deep-water oil field
[Narrator]
Welcome to the Bonga field, Nigeria’s first oil and gas project in more than 1,000 metres of water. Shell Nigeria Exploration Production Company used one of the world’s largest floating production, storage and offloading vessels, or FPSO, for the project. Three hundred metres long and the height equivalent to a 12-story building, the FPSO’s deck spans an area as large as three football fields.
[Video footage]
More footage of the FPSO in the ocean, including panning shots and closer shots of parts of the FPSO.
Interview with Dare Famuyide
[Title]
Shift Supervisor, Bonga
[Text displays]
Dare Famuyide / Shift Supervisor, Bonga
[Dare]
The most impressive aspect of the Bonga Project to me is in her development of in-country capacity. When we started, it was novel, we were possibly the first deep-water offshore assets in the gulf of Guinea. And over time, the company has been able, through the Bonga FPSO, to develop in-country capacity.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Dare against the background of shelving at frame-right and an easy chair and curtains drawn back from the window at frame-left.
Footage of an office environment, workstations lining the walls at frame-left and frame-right with various employees in red overalls standing in the room or seated at workstations.
Close-up in profile of Dare at his workstation, cutting to close-ups of his hand on the computer mouse and of the data on the computer screen, followed by more footage of employees standing alongside or seated at workstations in the office.
Close-up of Dare as previously described.
[Narrator]
That commitment has helped create the first generation of Nigerian deep water oil and gas engineers.
[Video footage]
Footage of employees in red overalls seated around a long table, engaged in discussion.
[Dare]
Let’s try Little Red Riding Hood.
[Narrator]
And perhaps the next.
[Video footage]
Footage of Dare with his family, seated on a sofa, Dare’s young daughter playing on a tablet and claps her hands in delight.
[Dare]
I’ve noticed some engineering trends in my daughter, although more on the destructive end than the constructive side so she can break stuff down very easily but she is also very keen and adept on computers. She’s quite the baby engineer so to speak.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Dare as previously described.
More footage of Dare and his family, his daughter playing on the tablet.
[Narrator]
Shell’s offshore activities in Nigeria are drawing on industry-leading deep water expertise to deliver safe, economic projects that provide jobs and training for local people.
[Video footage]
Mid shot in profile of a man seated at a workstation in an office, speaking into a microphone.
Footage or employees dressed in safety gear on site, some completing work permits other paperwork, another welding, others tightening bolts.
Interview with Theo Ekiyor-Katimi
[Title]
Bonga Operations Manager
[Text displays]
Theo Ekiyor-Katimi / Bonga Operations Manager
[Theo]
The Bonga operations, in addition to being a significant revenue earner for the Nigerian economy, has contributed immensely in developing the local workforce in deepwater skills.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Theo, seated against the background of a blue wall, a photo frame and pot plant visible on the window sill at frame-right.
Rear view shot of two men walking down the deck of the FPSO, blue seas and sky visible in the background.
High angle mid shot of two employees seated and looking up at a screen, cutting to footage of data on the computer screen, followed by underwater footage of new parts being installed.
[Narrator]
Today, 95% of Bonga’s core offshore staff are Nigerian.
[Video footage]
More footage of various groupings of employees in red and orange overalls, some wearing safety gear.
Interview with Austin Uzoka
[Title]
Head Nigerian Content Development Department, SNEPCo
[Text displays]
Austin Uzoka / Head Nigerian Content Development Dept, SNEPCo
[Austin]
The future of the business would rely largely on our ability to utilize local alternatives to help bring down the cost of doing business and by so doing, support the government’s aspiration of building truly Nigerian companies that can stand on their own – not just on the local scene but on the global stage at large.
[Video footage]
Close-up of Austin against the background of an office.
Footage of people seated at desks with laptops in front of each of them, and an instructor standing at the front of the class addressing them.
Footage of an employee dressed in safety gear, operating a large panel of controls.
Close-up of Austin as previously described.
[Narrator]
It’s a dream shared by those who have seen first-hand how going the distance can help reach new heights.
[Video footage]
Footage of the pipes and deck of the FPSO, pulling back to an aerial shot of the FPSO at sea.
[Audio]
Shell jingle
[Graphic]
Shell pectin centred on a white background, text displaying below.
[Text displays]
© Shell International Limited 2016
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