Libyan Oil Fire
Libyan Oil Fire
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- Release Date: 14th May 1965
- Asset ID: 801131
- Synopsis: Historic news film of the oil well fires in the Sarir Oil Field that were started by saboteurs. Red Adair and his team arrive at the site to tackle the blazes which they put out in days.
- Shotlist: 00:02:32 Caption 'Libyan Oil Fire'. Map of Libya showing Tobruk, where oil terminal was under construction I 1965 and Sarir Field from where pipeline was being laid to deliver oil to the terminal. WS of sand dunes at Sarir. WS of sand dunes with black smoke billowing out in BG, the result of an attack on five production well heads. CUs of the fire at one of the wells. WS two cars, one with Red Adair, driving towards fires to put them out. Red Adair and team prepare to fight the fires. Shots of team taking units out of aircraft (RAF Blackburn B-101 Beverley) which has delivered equipment. 00:04:50 USAF C-130 Hercules aircraft landing with equipment in desert. CU of plane. WS of lorry reversing next to plane to collect equipment. Lorry drives off with equipment. Men taking aluminium pipes off plane. Land Rover carrying steel pipe. Men working with pipes with fire in BG. WS men at water tank. Water pours out of tank into reservoir. 00:06:39 GVs men working (looks like a breakers yard). 00:06:57 Graphic of a warren girder. 00:07:27 Men working on the girder. CUs of men welding. CU of wheels. WS machinery carrying corrugated iron driving along desert with fire in BG. Men next to corrugated iron fire screens using water gun. CUs of man turning nozzle to control the water. 00:08:29 WS men next to girder with fire in BG. WS bulldozer digging up track so that boom can be brought close to fire, fire in BG. CU Red Adair driving bulldozer. WSs bulldozer with fire in BG. Rake end attachment on boom to pull away coke residue. 00:10:00 Water shooting out of nozzle. Water pouring onto wellhead but fire persisting. Shots of men trying to remover the metal from the wellhead. Adair wearing asbestos suit cutting away wellhead. Winch line is passed around wellhead which is successful in breaking it. Top of tubing is blocked by oil so men hammer down a chisel-like instrument. WS flames caused by the freed oil catching fire, with the men behind the fire screen. 00:13:20 Men fitting stinger assembly to the end of the boom to pump mud into the tubing. 00:13:58 CU of pump with fire in BG. Men next to CU of water spurting out of nozzle. WS the water spurting out of two nozzles, camera pans across to water hitting fire. GVs of the fire. 00:14:51 Good night shots - CUs of boom in fire. Stinger placed over wellhead. Good shot of steam rising from the sand, smoke billowing in BG and long jets of water from the monitors all lit by light of the fire. Shots of silhouetted men next to wellhead with fire behind. Adair guides the stinger to the wellhead. CU of stinger hitting target. WS jet of oil emerges from open top of stinger assembly. Shots of men next to stinger. 00:17:46 Night shot - WS fire starting to go out. WS day shot of team examining site when the first fire has been extinguished. WS men in desert with another blazing well in BG. CU of fire. WS lorry with fire in BG, camera pans up to billowing black smoke. BP logo. 00:18:46 END.
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None