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BP Platform Launched

Date released

17 Jun 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2350

NoS ID

030378

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Platform Christened - Colour. DESCRIPTION: The first BP production platform, destined for the North Sea Forties oil field, is launched by seven year old Cheryl Patchett. SHOTLIST:...

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Frigg Story, The (1979 Film, Video)

Producer

Colin Frewin

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The technology involved in the construction of a major gas field in the North Sea; the history of a platform from its construction in Norway to its towing out in the North Sea; the pipeline construction from...

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Report from oil rig platform (1976)

Genre

News report

Report from the Belford Dolphin semi submersible platform on the North Sea. How the platform works and what it does. Male reporter not identified.

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Victory Report: Mary Rose Report - Sleipner (1979)

Track 2 from AV1/VR3/S1. Documentary programme in Victory Report Series with interviews concerning the fitting out of the recovery vessel Sleipner for use in the raising of the Tudor warship Mary Rose from...

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Piper Alpha - Recovery of bodies (1988)

Genre

Interview

The North Sea oil platform Piper Alpha was sunk following an explosion killing 167 men. An unidentified male speaker discusses how they will recover the bodies from the platform, the difficulties they will...

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Piper Alpha raised from sea bed (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

The North Sea oil platform, Piper Alpha, which was sunk following an explosion which killed 167 men, has been raised from the sea bed. Grampian Police Chief Alistair Lynn says that they do not yet know how...

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Fire on North Sea oil platform? (1989)

Genre

Interview

2 clips, possibly about the Piper Alpha oil platform fire of July 1988. Unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells of his escape from a fire by jumping; another unidentified (Scottish?) male speaker tells...

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Brent Spar oil platform fate (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Maurice reports on the possible fate of the Shell Brent Spar oil storage platform. Shell has received two hundred suggestions on how to dispose of the structure following the successful Greenpeace...

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Changing Shape of the North Sea, The (1996 Video)

Director

John Pethick

Producer

Tony Jolly

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Considers the moving patterns of a changing coastline and sea floor topography as currents and waves continually shift sediment from one place and deposit it elsewhere. Shows scientists deplying seabed...

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Piper Alpha disaster - Petrie report (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Following the Piper Alpha disaster in which an explosion on a North Sea oil platform killed 167 people, a report from the Department of Energy’s Director of Safety, Jim Petrie, has prompted different...

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