Slender Chance (1976)

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1976
  • Asset ID: 802350
  • Synopsis: Ultimately the only way to find a new oilfield is to drill an exploration well. The cost can be millions of pounds, but the chances of success are only 25-1. If an exploration well reveals oil-bearing sandstone, it is the job of the Petroleum Engineer to determine how much oil is present and whether it will eventually flow.
  • Shotlist: 10:00:01 BP shield logo 10:00:06 Aerial shot across the sea and over an oil rig, MLS oil rig, MS a geologist checking rock sample under a microscope, GVs geologist logging data and working, pan R to L across oil rig tower to helicopter landing on the platform, MS oil engineer enter a room where a geologist is sitting, MCU oil engineer talking. 10:01:13 Titles 10:01:37 MCU geologist looking through microscope, MS mud travelling under surface, CU mud, MCU emptying a mud powder into a mixing machine, MS a man emptying a bag into mixing machine, MCU mud made from chemical slurry, MCU rotating drill pipe, pan over a drill pipe. 10:01:58 graphics showing drilling process, GVs of mud processing and collecting rock samples from the bottom of the sea, GVs geologist examining rock and sandstone samples, CA graphics showing drilling process. 10:02:53 Graphics showing sandstone, MS rotating drilling tube, MLS man operating drilling process, GVs drilling chart, montage of collecting and recording gas from the mud, GVs geologists examining sandstone in lab. 10:04:19 MS pulling out the drilling bit, MCU hole containing mud slurry, graphics showing drilling and earth layers, MCU oil engineer, MS oil engineer standing on the platform next to pipeline talking to another engineer, GVs engineers preparing long containers, MS men working on drilling bit, LS winch lowering drilling tube into water, GVs man working in the logging cabin, animated graphics showing rocks radioactivity, MS winch pulling up the drilling tube, CA animated graphics, MS a man washing the container from mud, MS me placing drilling tube, MS lowering drilling tube, MCU a man operating sound measuring equipment, CA animated graphics showing sound waves. 10:07:09 Pulling up the drilling tube with sonic equipment, graphics showing tests on sandstone, animated graphics, MLS men washing the drilling tube with water, MS man using water jet to clean the collecting cylinder attached to the drilling tube. 10:08:14 Animated graphics showing the sandstone layers, GVs oil engineer measuring and logging layer thickness, MS men lowering coring gun attached to the drilling tube, graphics of coring process, MCU lowering the coring gun, MCU man operating the coring gun from logging cabin, in frame graphics, MS man operating a winch. 10:09:44 MS man washing the drilling tube and the coring gun, MS men pushing the drilling tube aside, GVs geologist collecting and packing samples from the coring gun. 10:10:11 Pan R to L a helicopter taking off from the oil platform and flying away, MS oil engineer sitting at his desk working on charts, graphics, GVs pulling the drilling tube up, GVs Production drilling test, GVs engineer preparing pressure gauge for oil flow tests, GVs men lowering pressure gauges attached to long thin tubes, GVs men lowering metal tubes protecting the pressure gauges, LS a supply ship sailing next to the platform, HA supply ship transporting equipment to the platform, LS man operating crane, HA a large tank being placed on the platform, LS oil engineer taking notes, LS a man walking toward and checking oil burners, MS a man operating a lever to release oil to the burners, LS oil burners, CA man operating, LS oil burners, MCU oil engineers taking notes, LS oil burners, HA men working on the platform and monitoring the process of oil burning, MS engineers checking the tank separator, GVs oil burners, LA man shutting off the oil, LA oil burners, CA man shutting off oil to burners, LS oil burners and supply ship in the BG. 10:12:53 MLS oil engineer checking equipment on the platform, LS view under the platform and its structure. 10:13:02 MS engineers waiting, MS engineers pulling up the oil pressure gauges, MS oil engineer checking pressure gauges on the platform, MCU oil engineer checking a small copper made chart. 10:13:27 Graphics showing oil pressure chart over a montage of the process in the BG. 10:14:24 GVs oil engineer checking his collected information, CA graphics of the drilling and collecting information process. 10:15:31 Aerial shot across an exploration well, montage of oil wells. 10:15:59 Titles, BP shield logo. 10:16:16 END
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