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Vision: Sweeping shots of Prelude. Voice Over. In a global engineering project of extraordinary scale, destined for gas fields, previously thought too challenging. Shell is building a floating facility that will liquefy natural gas, at sea.

Vision: Prelude under construction. Voice Over. Piece by piece, 14 gas plant modules have been built on a quayside, then carefully lifted on to a giant hull. Now the last module is ready for installation and Prelude is taking shape.

Vision: Aerial shots Prelude FLNG. Super: Didrik Reymert, Prelude FLNG Project Director “Getting the last module is a real accomplishment by everybody. And from now on progress won’t be that visible, but on the other hand there’s a lot of work to do still.”

Vision: Aerial shots Prelude FLNG. Super: Huw Jones, FLNG Construction Manager. “There are 3000 piping connections to make 450 kilometres of cabling to pull. So now the forest of yellow steel is now going to get connected together so it’s one piece.”

Vision: Prelude LNG storage Tank. Super: Jean Chaplain, Storage Tank Lead. “This cargo tank which is for LNG is 39,000 cubic metres. It’s difficult to imagine. “

Vision: Interior of liquefaction module. Super: James Nafraicheur, Pipe Engineering Lead. “We’re in the liquefaction module at the very heart of the liquefaction process with this refrigerant loop being assembled now. For topsides only, we’ve got 60,000 pairs of flanges to make. Everyone has to be done right.”

Vision: Marine Loading Arms in Drydock. Super: Cris Moreno, Project Engineering Lead. “We’re at the front of dry dock 1 here, where our 7 MLA’s, marine loading arms, have been for the past few months. As you can see they’re assembled ready to be lifted, ready for FLNG. So hopefully we’ll get to see that in the next few days.”

Vision: Aerial shots Prelude FLNG. James Nafraicheur. “When we see the last module coming in on the deck, then now the real work will start.”

Vision: Aerial shots Prelude FLNG. Didrik Reymert. “Now if you were climbing Mount Everest I think we are well past base camp, but there’s still quite a long way to go. And of course as you go it gets narrower and narrower.”

Vision: Aerial shots Prelude FLNG. Huw Jones. I tell you what. I’m going to give you another analogy. I’m going to talk about Wales winning the Rugby World Cup. We’re just getting ready for the semi-final.

Wide Shot Prelude FLNG. SOUND OF SHELL MUSIC FADES OUT ENDS ON PECTEN LOGO.