Buchan Project, The (1982)

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  • Release Date: 1st January 1982
  • Asset ID: 800746
  • Synopsis: The size of the Buchan oilfield, 96 miles off Aberdeen in the North Sea, did not justify the enormous cost of constructing, installing and maintaining a fixed production platform. Instead all the well— heads are on the seabed and the oil is first carried up to a floating production platform and then loaded on to a tanker moored nearby.
  • Shotlist: 18:37:39 BP shield logo 18:37:45 LS across the North Sea, LS view of the North Sea. 18:03 LS tug boats pulling one of the largest oil field platforms across the North Sea, aerial shot pan around and over the platform. 18:38:32 CU control board, GVs of placing and installing the platform on the sea bed, graphics showing the installation process of the platform on the sea bed. 18:39:08 GVs pan under water of the platform structure. 18:39:54 Titles 18:40:04 MLS well heads standing on the seabed, graphics showing oil flow from wells to production platform then to a tanker. 18:40:58 LS over the North Sea, pan across a docked vessel to Buchan platform R to L, travelling shot pan L to R vessel standing next to the platform, HA pan over a vessel, OS men watching installation process of the platform, CU monitor showing marine life, OS MS man sitting and monitoring construction work process on the seabed. 18:41:46 MLS lowering submersible into the sea, MS diver working inside the submersible, HA submersible disappearing into the sea, CU man working on a chart, MS GVs divers working underwater. 18:42:18 MLS waves hitting the platform structure and an oil platform in the BG. 18:42:28 HA pan L to R men placing mooring line on a bollard, HA pan across well head base to men working on the top section of the well head. 18:42:47 MS men watching on the platform, GVs wellhead installation process from the platform to the seabed. 18:43:15 LS and zooming out men standing on the APACHE vessel, GVs process of positioning pipelines by the APACHE vessel on the seabed. 18:44:07 Pan underwater across pipeline and oil well, MS underwater wellhead sitting on the seabed. 18:44:31 Pan R to L across manifold to platform, GVs process of lowering manifold onto seabed. 18:45:18 MS pan over manifold underwater on seabed to riser, pan over riser linked with the platform, MS GVs platform tensioners, LA GVs separators and platform tower, pan R to L across a pipeline to riser. 18:46:59 MS pan Manifolds on the seabed to pipeline, pan over a pipeline carried by a crane, MS welding work on a pipeline, HA pan R to L export pipeline to a barge, GVs process of welding and guiding the export pipeline into sea bed. 18:47:58 MS export pipeline underwater on the seabed. 18:48:03 GVs process of installing loading buoy. 18:48:32 MS zooming out the underside of the buoy to hose on the seabed. 18:48:59 LS a tanker approaching loading buoy, GVs process tanker approaching the loading buoy and connecting the oil hose. 18:49:48 Graphics showing the process of oil production and transportation to tanker at Buchan oil field. 18:50:00 MLS well heads and manifolds on the seabed, 3S GVs men working at the production's platform control room, LS flame on the production platform, aerial pan the Buchan field production platform, aerial pan around a tanker standing next to a loading buoy at the Buchan field. 18:50:41 MCU digital monitor showing total flow of oil, aerial pan tanker at the Buchan field and production platform in the BG. 18:50:58 Titles 18:51:18 BP shield logo 18:51:23 END
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  • Format: Other
  • Alternative Language Notes: None