Under the North Sea
Under the North Sea
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- Release Date: 1st January 1980
- Asset ID: 802395
- Synopsis: (Updated version) This is a programme about one of the greatest adventures of our age, the discovery and production of oil and gas from under the North Sea. Starting with their formation 100s of millions of years ago, it follows the story of oil and gas under the North Sea through the last 3 decades to an examination of some of the offshore production systems of the future. UNDER THE NORTH SEA is not only a story of technical triumph, but also one of enterprise, investment and human endeavour in one of the most hostile seas in the world. With its dramatic and exciting presentation, this programme will appeal to a wide variety of audiences.
- Shotlist: North Sea at night chopper lands on rig, man playing pool, man on rig, making beds, cook at work, office. Men watch film of the story of oil - crumbling rock, lava cooling of rock amoeba in sea, coal, pit ponies, combustion engine, old card, USA derrick and nodding donkey - USA has oil but Europe doesn't so the search is on. Europeans go abroad to search for oil. Aerials of Abadan. Explosion. English Oil Field, donkey in Britain in the meadow. Find gas in Netherlands and then start looking in North Sea. See first explosions 1965 underwater see the drill, shots as drill goes down into the sea. Sea Gem shot - First gas in West Sole field, Sea Gem accident - casualties come off boat. Newspaper Shot ‘13 Lives Dead’ aerials of sea with gas coming up and catching fire. 20 rigs towed out in rough water. Pulling rig out by tugs dropping buoys, man dives for cover when drum gets loose off side of the boat. Forties field - drilling shots. BP branded North Sea oil raft building of platform, built lying on its side, Teesside to Forties. Rigs on beach on side towed out, aerials 1974 platform on the move - the first one ever. Shot of lowering platform into sea. Drilling into sea bed to secure rig feet - superstructure loaded on top with the kitchen workshops. Gas extracted from oil section with burn off shots. Aerial of fire hoses spraying onto rig during burn off. Shot of rig with rainbow. Constructing platforms, shots being towed out to sea by tugs. Sullom Voe oil terminal being built, Shetland oil tank storage. Underwater shots divers inspect pipes decompression chamber section. Divers undersea welding. Sea Echo well, 1977. North Sea storm bashing boat men hold onto basket with not harnesses or anything as transferred from tug to rig in storm. Forties at night. Chopper lands at night man with rig at sea, shot over the end titles sequence
- Production Company: None
- Licensing Restrictions: None
- Viewing Restrictions: Public
- Format: BetaSP_Small
- Alternative Language Notes: None