Shell Argina & Gadinia – Power Engine Oils

Title: Shell Argina

Duration: 3:23 minutes

Description:  

Shell Lubricants -  from operating a power plant, to powering nations reliably

Shell Argina Transcript

[Background music plays]

Shell Music, Etheral

[GFX Title]

Shell Lubricants

From Operating a power plant

To Powering Nations Reliably

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Night time shot of harbour, Timelapse

Power plant

[Dialogue: Richard Holdsworth]

Electricity today, is at the heart of everybody’s lives.

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Richard Holdsworth

Global Brand Manager
Shell Lubricants

[Dialogue: Richard Holdsworth]

Across the world there’s an increase in the demand for electricity,

[Video footage]

Interview with Richard Holdsworth

[Dialogue: Richard Holdsworth]

… and our power customers, they have to meet that demand.

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Night time shot of city, Timelapse

Street in Bangladesh at night

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

In Bangladesh, 76% of the people are getting power.

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Interview with Saiful Islam

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Saiful Islam

Plant Manager

Raj Lanka Power Company

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

Nowadays there is a demand, and more people are using power in every instance.

[Video footage]

Night time shot of market

Power plant gate

Power plant signage

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

Raj Lanka is a power plant,

[Video footage]

Interview with Saiful Islam

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

… we’re generating 52.2 megawatt of power and connected to the National Grid.

[Video footage]

Aerial shot of power plant

Power plant

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

Actually for running the power plant, if the lubricants fail, it damages everything.

[Video footage]

Interview with Saiful Islam

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

So there will be a major breakdown, if we select a poor quality lube oil.

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Raj Lanka is a power station in Bangladesh, running new generation Wärtsilä engines.

The biggest challenges for its geography are humidity and heat.

This makes the quality of the lube oil mission - critical.

[Background music plays]

Shell Music, Inspiring

[Video footage]

Praveen working
Interview with Praveen Nagpal

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

The major issue which is coming up from the customer, problems like more partial replacement of the oil...

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Praveen Nagpal

Global Product Application Specialist

Shell Lubricants

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

… plus the BN depletion, plus the increase in viscosity...

[Video footage]

Bottles of engine oil components

Scientist in a laboratory

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

… and it means you need new products that can actually manage these challenges very effectively. And that made the basis for development of our new product.

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3 years of development with 7,000 hours of engine testing led to the formulation of the New Shell Argina S5

Prior to putting this product into a field trial, the team conducted more than 10,000 analytical results in laboratory testing

[Video footage]

Scientist pouring liquid into beaker

[Dialogue: Richard Holdsworth]

The development process can take a number of years. And then we do a field validation.

[Video footage]
Interview with Richard Holdsworth

Mechanical equipment

Interview with Praveen Nagpal

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

We start identifying the right engine for our new Argina S5 trial, we engage with Wärtsilä.

[Video footage]
Praveen with Martijn in engine room

Interview with Martijn Grynngärds

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Martijn Grynngärds

Technical Manager

Wärtsilä

[Dialogue: Martijn Grynngärds ]

We were informed that Shell has a new product and the want to validate it.

[Video footage]
Praveen with Martijn working in engine room

Interview with Martijn Grynngärds

[Dialogue: Martijn Grynngärds ]

Wärtsilä, we are supplying a lot of engines to power plants in Bangladesh. So we can validate in Bangladesh.

[Video footage]

Aerial shots of power plant

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

Raj Lanka, the engines also operate on base load, close to 100%, and that gives the real representation of the stress on the lubricating oil.

[Video footage]

Powerplant
Interview with Praveen Nagpal

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

These trials are very critical from OEM approval perspective, because any of the product that can be used from this engine has to be approved from an Indian manufacturer.

[Video footage]

Praveen and Saiful working

Shots of Praveen and Martijn working in engine room

Interview with Saiful Islam

[Dialogue: Saiful Islam]

After 4000 hours of completion, we found that all the pistons, piston heads, everything, that the lubricants functions well. So we found that everything is like new.

[Video footage]

Praveen and Martijn inspecting engine

Interview with Martijn Grynngärds

[Dialogue: Martijn Grynngärds ]

We have quite a lot of parts inspected already, and everything looks really good. The engine is clean on the inside, and the oil performs well, so that’s good for us and Shell.

[Video footage]

Praveen with Shell employees, working

[Dialogue: Praveen Nagpal]

Based on our final assessment, we found Argina S5 offers up to 15% less oil consumption, compared to previous oils customer had used, and up to 18% better BN retention compared to the previous product customer had used.

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Shell Argina S5 offers up to 15% less oil consumption and up to 18% better BN retention.

[Video footage]

Praveen with Shell employees, working

Praveen, Martijn and Shell employee walking outdoors

Interview with Richard Holdsworth

[Dialogue: Richard Holdsworth]

I am confident that when our customers start to use the product, they will be able to reduce the amount of oil they’re using in those engines. And they will see that the area around the piston is cleaner than they expected. Probably cleaner than they’ve ever seen it before.

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Shell employees shaking hands

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Shell Lubricants

Together anything is possible

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Shell jingle

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