LNG Canada

Title: LNG Canada First Cargo

Duration: 5:15 minutes

Description:

The video is made up of people talking directly to the camera with footage playing at the same in most cases - from natural spaces, Shell Canada’s natural gas operation, LNG Canada facility, surrounding communities, and community members.

LNG Canada First Cargo Transcript

[Background music plays]

Soft slow music by piano opens the scene with birds chirping in background.

[Text displays]

LNG from Canada

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Open on a view from behind pine trees with the Pacific Ocean in the background, the sun is shining. The trees part and a tugboat comes into view then we see a cargo ship with the mountains in the background. Video footage of a cargo ship in the ocean with several tugboats surrounding it. A bald eagle flies by. A bird’s eye view of the forest appears and the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, BC, appears.

[Conversation/ speech Title]

Hadi Qazi, Joint Venture Asset Manager

Hadi Qazi

This is an incredible story. It's a story that is well over 15 years in the making. From the very first idea through to today as we look to ship our very first cargoes of Canadian LNG across the Pacific. I really do think that this is a story about a company with deep, deep Canadian roots. This is a Canadian story. Here in Canada, we live in a very, very large country, one of the largest on Earth. You know, we have geographies that range from mountains and valleys to rivers and coastal waters and everything in between. And so Canadians from the very start have had to get used to really taking on outsized challenges to build in this country.

The video transitions to Hadi Qazi, wearing a brown suit with a white shirt, sitting in a lounge area at Shell Canada’s Calgary head office. As he speaks, the video transitions to an aerial view of the mountains and then to multiple images of the construction site for a pipeline.

[Text displays]

Building energy security

Building a brighter future

Building a legacy

The video transitions to historical images of Shell Canada operations. Black and white photography of old cars, oil rigs, retail station. A female with mid-length brown hair, wearing a black suit and white shirt sits in a lounge area at Shell Canada’s Calgary head office.

[Conversation/ speech Title]

Jenna Lapointe, Petrophysicist

Jenna Lapointe

Shell has a long legacy in Canada. We've been here since 1911, and we started quite humbly with $50,000 and six employees and we're now currently at 3200 employees working in Shell Canada. In Groundbirch we have the Montney Formation, and the Montney is the second largest gas resource that we have in Canada. And it's huge. It’s about the size of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia put together. What I think we do well is pure integration. And that starts in the subsurface, up to the surface, and then a great distance across B.C. all the way to the harbor. Watching those little tugboats come in and do the dance with such precision and such grace. And we're ready, we’re ready to see that integration in action.

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As Jenna speaks, aerial video of Shell Canada’s Groundbirch operation appears. We see Jenna sitting at her computer and then flipping through a large coiled book with technical graphs. An SUV drives up a dirt road to the Groundbirch operations site. A close-up image of a teal blue and white cargo ship in the ocean with four tugboats appear then we see the inside of a tugboat with a white male pilot with his back to the camera. Aerial video of the port at the LNG Canada facility. Two white, male, men wearing black glasses sit across from each other at a large white desk, one has a laptop open.

[Conversation/ speech Title]

Maury Hoehn, Remote Operations Panel Operator

Murray Hoehn

You're talking about a 40-year lifespan plus. So that's prosperity for thousands of families, tax revenue for the government of course. It's mind boggling to think of the amount of engineering and talent and hard work and long nights. When it's -40 and your furnace works, there's somebody out in the field making sure that gas is flowing. So yeah, big props to them.

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Maury is in the Operations Control Centre and we see multiple large screens behind him. He’s in his kitchen with his wife and child showing an old picture of himself when he first joined Shell Canada. Video of office workers then video of site workers. Aerial view of LNG Canada facility. Video of someone welding. We see Indigenous Peoples talking to a group of people then the Joint Venture Partners signing an agreement. An aerial view of people holding up champagne glasses. We see three children playing, a child kicking a ball into a soccer net.

Hadi Qazi

You don't build a project like LNG Canada without really deep partnerships. We’ve done it with all levels of government, with industry, both inside and outside Canada, with international partners and most importantly, with the local communities and in particular, the First Nations.

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Empowering communities

Empowering local businesses

Empowering Canadians

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Aerial view of Moberly Lake in Northeast, British Columbia and West Moberly First Nation.

[Conversation/ speech Title]

Councillor Clarence Willson, West Moberly First Nation

Councillor Clarence Willson

We're a community of 373 people, maybe 374 now I heard, survived in this area, living off the land for millennia. It's home. We don't receive a huge amount of federal funding, so revenue that we can generate, such as revenue from Shell, we get to do what we want with that revenue. You know,

we built our own health centre there. We can put programing in place for our elders, for our youth, for West Moberly, all of our neighbouring communities that participated are going to be benefiting for years to come.

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A hanging wrought-iron type of sign with West Moberly First Nations in red. Water rolling up onto the shore. A canoe with the lake in the distance. Image of the West Moberly First Nations Health Station. Someone driving a car through the community. A far-away shot of a female walking down a dirt pathway in the forest.

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Michelle Murray, Community Liason

Michelle Murray

I love to showcase Groundbirch. I think we're pretty special here. I get to go out there and I get to support our families that work here in Groundbirch, and I get to see their kids grow. We're all so tight knit, and it all takes all of us to get the gas in the pipe.

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Video of site workers working and talking to each other. A close-up shot of Michelle in blue coveralls and a yellow hard hat standing proud.

[Conversation/ speech Title]

Crystal Smith, Former Elected Chief Councillor, Haisla Nation

Crystal Smith

I often describe LNG Canada as a hope, a vision of a brighter future for our people. This project is going to be a change in our future forever. Everything from infrastructure such as our beautiful youth centre, our new health centre building where key programing is delivered to our community and seeing the employment opportunity.

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Close-up of Crystal who has mid-length dark brown hair and wearing a black button-up shirt. She is sitting with bright green trees blurred in the background. A child running and older man walking behind her on a bridge both wearing orange Every Child Matters t-shirts. Shot of the Haisla Health Centre. A newborn being passed from one person to another. A view from behind of five tugboats in the ocean.

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Hadi Qazi, Joint Venture Asset Manager

Hadi Qazi

Here in Canada, the resource sector has been a source of prosperity to Canadians for generations. And by way of LNG Canada, this segment of the resource sector will continue to provide prosperity for Canadians for generations to come.

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Creating connections

Creating jobs

Creating opportunity

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Image of a large port. Video of people working at a site. Close up of a woman wearing a blue V-neck sweater. An employee fixing a light on the outside of a building. Close up of Hadi speaking.

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Randy Thomas, Wells Supervisor

Randy Thomas

A lot of people don't realize what it's takes to get to this milestone, and how many people were involved to make this happen, right. It's been a long journey over a decade. There's a lot of ingenuity

that's gone in here. Innovation, technology. A lot of people put heart and soul into this project

and people are treated here with respect.

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Close-up of Randy talking with an operations site blurred in the background. An operations employee looking up in the air at equipment. We see from behind a man walking on a paved road with trucks parked along the side. Randy walks side by side with a female colleague. Large equipment is seen in the background.

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Erin McLean, Production Superintendent

Erin McLean

I think the key for Canadian natural gas is we have some of the highest standards in the world. Safety standards. We respect our communities. We are proud to work in our communities. I don't know that people recognize the gravity of how big of a deal this is to get our gas to global markets.

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Two site workers looking at large gas equipment. Close up of Erin wearing a yellow Shell hard hat with blue coveralls. In the background is steel pillars on gravel. Front shot of Erin walking through a natural gas plant. We can see the pipes where the gas flows. Close up of a silver pipe with a yellow and black sticker that reads ‘Natural Gas’.

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Video of a woman working at a computer. We see an image from a display booth that reads LNG from Canada. The energy that Powers lives around the world.

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Alex Arcourt-Rippingale, Commercial Integration Manager

Alex Arcourt-Rippingale

For Canada it's incredible having an opportunity to now take our gas out of continental North America and seeing what it means to our JV partners where, you know, they really want to establish a link

between Canada and their home bases. And, you know, it takes a village. But I think in this case, it's

almost like a city. There's just thousands of thousands of people from the people who are constructing it in Kitimat, the folks who work to construct CGL, all the folks here in Calgary, Shell in London,

Beijing, Tokyo and all over the world. The implications of LNG Canada will long outpace ourselves.

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Close up of Alex talking in a lounge at Shell Canada’s Calgary head office. He is wearing a white striped shirt. Series of footage of the LNG Canada facility from an aerial view. Backside video of operations employees wearing safety vests walking away from the camera. A series of shots of LNG Canada employees. One is waving. A group shot. An aerial view of a large team of workers in front of a pipeline and some higher up on the group. We see the Calgary Tower through a window. We see the LNG Canada facility. Two people are at a computer looking at graphs. Two people are now standing looking at large screens in the operations centre. Two employees in blue coveralls and white hard hats looking out into the distance at the LNG Canada facility. Close up of Hadi.

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Hadi Qazi, Joint Venture Asset Manager

Hadi Qazi

The implications of LNG Canada will long outpace ourselves. We're talking about a generational project. Many, many people over many, many years have worked on something that will bear fruit for generations.

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We see a finger pointing at spot on a large paper map. Two women smile at each other while looking at the map. A close up of Jenna then Councillor Clarence Willson then Michelle Murray, then Erin McLean. We see a family of three walking along a bridge and then along the water’s edge of a river. Two employees wearing hard hats and blue coveralls looking out to the LNG Canada facility.

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Ken Esau, Production Supervisor

Ken Easu

It's a big project, involves a lot of people, and we're at the finish line. This is only going to happen once, and, you know, remember it. It’s something special.

Video footage - Close up of Ken who is wearing a black hard hat, sunglasses and blue coveralls. View of the LNG Canada facility. Zoomed out shot of a cargo ship in ocean with one tugboat following behind.

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Katherine Rushfeldt, Supply Optimizer

Katherine Rushfeldt

To have that first cargo going out the door, it's just bringing all of that hard work to this monumental milestone.

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Close-up of Katherine with large windows behind her. She is wearing a black suit with a black and grey checked scarf with skulls. A close up of a cargo ship with two tugboats. Jenna standing and holding onto a rail looking out the window.

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Jenna Lapointe, Petrophysicist

Jenna Lapointe

I don't think excitement does it justice. It's about arriving. This is setting it up for the next generations because of LNG Canada.

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Video closes out with a view of a white LNG Canada flag blowing in the wind. The words LNG from Canada Energy for the World comes onto the screen. The video ends with an image of the Shell logo and a logo with a cargo ship, the words Canada underneath the ship and 2025 under the words Canada.