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Title: PIPER GAS PROJECT, the

Reference number: 5821

Date: 1979

Sponsor: Oxy Allied Chemical Getty Thomson

Production company: Edinburgh Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 14.12 mins

Description: Overview of the upgrading of a platform in the Piper field by Occidental for a planned gas conservation scheme. It involves the use of the world's largest barge crane.

Credits: [cam. Alex Sheridan]

Shotlist: title, platform in Piper field, flame flaring (0.47) Leon Daniels, VP of Occidental in office, talking to camera about gas cooling process and planned gas conservation scheme, platform illustrations in background and map of North East coast (2.15) Flotta (2.33) aerial view MCPO 1 platform (2.44) St, Fergus on mainland, access point to national gas grid (2.51) illustration of 3000 tonne Balder? crane barge compared to Big Ben (2.59) gvs crane barge in operation (3.22) sunrise over sea, view of platform from barge, anchor handling tug, Laga, approaches. Men on tug handling crane hooks and anchors (5.16) men welding on platform (5.38) gangway linking crane barge to platform, aerial view of the two structures together (5.57) East crane and supporting pedestal being removed the drilling modules, gvs manoeuvering (6.30) removal of 200 tonne mud module (7.35) cleaning of east crane slewering (7.48) drill derrick substructure being lifted (7.58) observers watching as storage module comes off before compacted muck is cleared by pressure hose and small digger (8.44) night time, men working (9.13) Mike Ray, Oxy Safety Rep talking about exhaust fumes on platform (9.54) gvs surveyors preparing for arrival of new gas modules (10.13) c/u man welding, lifting on of enormous, utilities module, brief view from crane cockpit (12.11) lifting of process module of 1000 tonnes (13.07) reinstallation of east side crane with extended pedestal (13.48) aerial view of rig and crane (14.08) ecs (14.12)