Wayleave

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1974
  • Asset ID: 802406
  • Synopsis: The strip of land in which a pipeline is buried is called the wayleave. The technical problems of building any pipeline can be daunting, but when a pipeline's route must pass through a developed, inhabited area the problem focuses on the rights and wishes of people. This programme tells in human terms the story of the planning, discussions and negotiations that were necessary to obtain the wayleave for the 130 mile pipeline to carry crude oil from BP's Forties Field from its landfall at Cruden Bay to Grangemouth Refinery. It also shows the consideration given to environmental problems and how the pipeline was constructed.
  • Shotlist: START 10:00:00 Aerial low flying over pipeline running through desert 10:00:15 WS underwater divers swimming over pipeline 10:00:27 WS country village 10:00:33 CU and WS pipeline being lowered into ground 10:01:06 GFX map of Britain show passage of oil from North sea to Cruden bay and underground pipeline to Grangemouth refinery 10:01:27 WS aerial over hilly forest terrain 10:01:48 WSs HA zoom into man walking across fields 10:02:44 GVs wide landscape panoramic views 10:03:06 WS Firth of Forth and refinery 10:03:19 CU Jack Sutton - project engineer driving in car WS up-and-past end on CU of Forth Bridges Motel 10:03:37 Conversation between Alan Haugh - chief surveyor and Jack Sutton 10:04:07 WS 3 people on boat 10:04:16 WS rowing boat on the water 10:04:22 GVs man walking through landscape 10:04:42 Tilt up from river to surveyor, 3S locals argue with surveyor 10:05:13 Meeting with John Brodie - Wayleave administrator, Michael Reid-Thomas - Land Agent, Eddie Lloyd - pipeline engineer, discussing which of the local people will let the pipeline cross their own land 10:06:37 GFX map showing passage of pipeline 10:06:58 POV through car windscreen on motorway, CU Eddie Lloyd driving, WS car pulling round bend 10:17:07 WS landowner shooting partridge 10:07:26 Tilt up from ground to 2S of Eddie Lloyd and landowner talking 10:08:08 WS light aircraft landing, camera finishes on airport 10:08:16 CU man talking on radio, zoom past to 2S airport manager talking to pipeline engineer, CA map 10:09:04 2S men talking and walking through field, zoom out from house to static 2S men talking 10:10:08 WS ext house 10:10:16 WS shooting from inside to out, looking at man peering through window, Pan L across house, Swivel down to CU landscape gardener, GVS landscape gardener and surveyor walking round and taking notes, LA WS car drives away from camera 10:11:30 Ext. WS zoom into entrance to Thames house, Int. zoom out from window to meeting. 10:12:10 CU newspaper pull out to WS man looking through it then zoom in to papers moving through printing press 10:12:32 WS meeting hosted by Fraser Cook MD of Grangemouth refinery 10:13:49 CU boots tramping across muddy WS frosty field man in distance, MS man walks down path, reverse previous shot, CU hand of Lord Stoney pointing at map pull out to 2S talking to representative from BP 10:15:02 WS car drives up path, zoom into 2S discussing pipeline route 10:16:08 CU phone rings picked up by John Brodie 10:16:21 GVs men marking out path for pipeline with stakes 10:16:51 GVs clouds 10:17:02 GVs pipeline arrives 10:17:15 Pan L along pipeline, CU welder masks flipped down, CU sparks flying onto welder masks, CU welding pull out to welder. GVs pipeline and welding 10:18:54 Welder puts cigarette in his ear 10:18:58 GVs sawing and welding 10:19:25 WS looking down length of pipeline in otherwise deserted field 10:19:35 GVs digger digging 6ft trench, GVs pipeline being laid 10:20:07 WS Pan R across landscape, WS and CU reinstatement team at work 10:20:37 HA WS JCB replacing topsoil 10:20:59 CU cow pull out to WS craftsmen rebuilding dry stone wall 10:21:24 3S workers walk away from camera which pulls out and up away from them 10:22:09 WS ground after pipe has been laid looking as it did before
  • Production Company: None
  • Licensing Restrictions: None
  • Viewing Restrictions: Public
  • Format: BetaSP_Small
  • Alternative Language Notes: None