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Synopsis:At the end of the road across Alaska's North slope, 250 miles beyond the Arctic Circle, is Prudhoe Bay. Here, where for all but 6 weeks of the year the sea is frozen solid, where winter is 8 months long, 4000 people developed America's biggest oilfield. To carry the oil south to an ice-free port, 20000 men built a pipeline across 800 miles of Alaskan mountain, tundra, forest and river - the costliest commercial enterprise in history.
This programme is not a technical engineering record, it is the dramatic and exciting story of how men worked in one of the world's most hostile climates to bring oil to an energy-hungry world.
Shotlist:Footage of people working on pipelines in all conditions and great snowy gvs. There is a graphic showing the route from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez and the various construction camps on the route and there is footage of the road and trucks passing up and down the road as well as the construction camps.
05:04 - Truck driving across frozen land
07:30 - Aerials of Prudhoe Bay
07:55 - Plane shots
08:56 - Unload plane
09:56 - Wellheads
11:40 - Drifting snow
13:05 - Laying pipeline in blizzard
13:50 - Control centre
14:10 - Living quarters
16:10 - Aerials of mountains
17:50 - Derrick
18:38 - Gravel digging
20:16 - Pipe laying
21:15 - Stilts and pipeline
23:05 - Trucks on road
23:30 - Aerials of Prudhoe Bay
24:43 - Valdez tankers and snow
25:39 - Drilling gvs
26:58 - End
