Centenary: The BP Story

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  • Release Date: 1st February 2009
  • Asset ID: 804516
  • Synopsis: BP's centenary celebration film. The film includes archive footage, dramatic reconstruction and interviews with BP employees.
  • Shotlist: 10:00:00 Introduction to film;10:02:08 reconstruction/archive drill rig, donkeys, goats; still geologist George Reynolds; 10:03:44 Michael Daly (Geologist) reading Reynolds's diary; stills William Knox D'Arcy; intvw.James Kyrle-Pope (Drilling supervisor);archive drilling,mountains;still mansion;reconstruction oil spurts from rig; archive Glasgow street,Persia map,palm trees; intvw. Jim Bamberg (Historian & author);archive Abadan streets; archive pipeline laid, aerial refinery; 10:10:44 intvw. George King (British Tanker Corporation 1946);archive river,mountains,refinery;stills Charles Greenway (Anglo Persian boss);archive pipeline work;intvw.Bamberg; aerial drill rigs,archive drilling,Shell tankers; 1911 archive Churchill,coal,war planes,bombs,tanks;intvw. George King; archive programmes 'Tanker Launch' and Movietone 'King Ghazi Opens Iraq Oil Pipe Line',John Cadman footage (Chairman); 10:17:28 intvw. Norman Falcon,Peter Hill (Geologists),survey archive; intvws. Harry Warman (Geologist), Sir Eric Drake (ex General Manager Iran), Bamberg; war footage, Shah Reza Khan,street, classroom, petrol stations,drilling, Abadan Refinery; intvw. Colin Williamson (Chemist, Abadan);colour archive sports; Sunbury Research Centre; intvw. Monty Sawyer (Chemist Abadan);archive war planes, British army, pipeline, new Shah inaugurated, GVs refinery, steam train; 10:26:40 intvw. Doug Wallis,Kevin Topham(drillers)at Eakring Oilfield,UK; Eakring archive programme, war footage; intvw. George King,archive ship sinking, William Fraser (Head Anglo-Iranian Oil company), Mohammed Mossadegh; intvws. Colin Williamson,Drake;archive Basil Jackson (ex Deputy Chairman), refinery GVs, cargo ship; intvw. Monty Sawyer, AIOC HQ; intvw.Bamberg; boardroom archive, churchill speech, Mossadegh in bed, coup, Shah and entourage in Rome, demonstration, Abadan Refinery, tankers, London HQ, petrol station;10:38:46 intvw. Ron Watkins (Engineer),Bamberg, archive tankers, footage from 'Land for a Refinery' - Isle of Grain construction work; Refinery,surveying, report from Nigel Ryan in North Sea, pipeline from ship, platform; intvw. Roger Bexon (ex Deputy Chairman); Groningen report; 1965 Sea Gem, sinking, people being rescued; Kevin Topham's survival; Forties Field archive, intvw.Secretary of State Tony Benn; Magnus Platform towed out to sea and laid; intvw. Ron Watkins; intvw. Mark Woolveridge (ex Assistant General Manager, Magnus Field); intvw. Sir Peter (ex Chairman), Colonel Gaddafi, OPEC negotiations, Yom Kippur War footage; intvw. Roger Bexon; 10:50:41 archive UK petrol station queues,Ted Heath speech;intvw. Drake; archive Harold Wilson moving to No.10, Wilson speech; Tony Benn intvw.; archive intvw. Dennis Healy; Margaret Thatcher takes office; commercial; intvw. Bamberg; BP share sale;intvw. Walters; Alaska; intvws. Harry Warman and John Martin (Geologists); archive drilling Prudhoe Bay; archive pipeline construction; intvw. Ron Watkins; squirrels, caribou, bears;11:02:45 trav shot pipeline; aerial tanker; Standard Oil still; intvw. Sir Peter Walters; 1980s construction work, pipeline; archive and intvws. John Browne (ex CE),Robert Horton (ex Chairman & CEO);commercial; Gulf War, Britannic House; intvw. Lord Simon (ex Group CE); archive David Simon speech; commercial; aerial oil platforms; intvw. Ian Vann (Geologist); GVs Chicago refinery; Amoco and BP amalgamate - Browne/Larry Fuller; commercial; 11:12:28 intvw. Christina De Luca (Whiting Refinery & GVs); archive laboratory; Lord Browne; commercials; Red Square,Moscow queues; Browne/Blair/Vladimir Potanin sign BP/Sedanco deal; intvws. David Jenkins (Geologist),Tony Hayward (CE); solar panel,wind turbine, Browne Stanford Uni speech 1997; commercial; 11:20:25 Texas City Refinery fire; Hurricane Dennis destroys Thunderhorse; Prudhoe Bay pipeline leak; Browne steps down; intvws. Hayward,Daly,Cynthia Blankship (Exploration Manager); 11:25:33 END Commissioning Editor, Steven Croston Director, Nigel Williams
  • Production Company: Lone Star Productions Commissioning Editor, Steven Croston Director, Nigel Williams
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: Digibeta_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None