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Oil Rig Launched

Date released

4 Oct 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2313A

NoS ID

030073

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Rig Launched. DESCRIPTION: Marathon, successor to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, launch their first giant oil rig. SHOTLIST: SV flag. GV new oil rig at Marathon Clyde Bank, Glasgow. SV...

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Piper Alpha: The Human Price of Oil (1988 Video)

Producer

Charles Furneaux

Subject

Engineering; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes), £195.00

In July 1988, 167 men were killed in the world’s worst oil industry disaster to date. Using interviews with eyewitnesses who were aboard the ‘Piper Alpha’ oil rig, questions the standards of design and...

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Piper Alpha oil rig fire (1989)

Genre

Vox pop

Relatives of men killed in the Piper Alpha oil rig fire speak emotionally about their meeting with Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson, where he said he could not do anything to bring the bodies back before the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

IRN Audio of the Decade [part] - nd [1983-1988]

IRN Audio of the Decade [part]. Track 1- 1985; Track 2- 1986; Track 3- 1987; Track 4- 1988; Track 5- End of feed. For the piece on Hungerford in track 3, see also AV769/557/S1. News of 1985: Manchester...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

All Colour Reel: BP Oil Rig

Date released

11 Feb 1974

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2332

NoS ID

030228

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bp Oil Rig Colour. DESCRIPTION: Under construction at a former shipyard near Hartlepool, a fixed platform which is destined for the BP Forties field in the North Sea. SHOTLIST: GV BP...

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Oil Rig

Date released

23 Jul 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/59

NoS ID

112683

Story no

3 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

The launching of the biggest oil rig ever built in Holland. She’s the 6,000 ton "Sedneth One".

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Shetland Oil Strike

Date released

10 Aug 1972

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2253A

NoS ID

029511

Story no

3 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Shetland Oil Strike. DESCRIPTION: A major oil field has been found in the North Sea near the Shetland’s. It could supply up to 15% of Britain’s oil needs. SHOTLIST: GV North Sea gas...

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World’s Largest Oil Rig

Date released

5 Feb 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/11

NoS ID

112402

Story no

1 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Off the coast of Victoria, the world’s largest oil rig drills in search of natural gas which geologists believe lies below the sea-bed in vast quantities.

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Oil Rig Hovercraft

Date released

23 Oct 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2107A

NoS ID

028056

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Rig Hovercraft. DESCRIPTION: The British Hovercraft Corporation is developing a project for transporting oil rigs, tapping the new-found wealth of Alaska, on cushions of air. It...

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Oil Rig

Date released

24 Feb 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/103

NoS ID

112460

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

A new giant oil-rig, the "Gulf Tide" prepares to join the North Sea hunt for natural gas. Built at the John Brown yards, she will stand on four telescopic legs - each 363 feet long - high above the biggest...

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