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Title: EKOFISK: ONE OF A KIND

Reference number: 4137

Date: 1980

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 30.22 mins

Description: Safety procedures and working conditions on oil rigs in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea. Features footage of rig operation, the diving crew, and safety measures taken on the 'Ekofisk' rig, operated by Phillips Petroleum from 1971.

Dated approximately from 1977, because one of the safety officers mentioned an event which happened in 1977 (the Bravo platform blow-out).

See British Film Institute record at http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150011177 [last accessed 24/7/2014]

Credits: comm. s. Gordon Jackson

Shotlist: [No credits] l/s of commentator sitting in a chair in a studio, film cameras surrounding him (0.15); [camera zooms in] shot of talking head (2.13); Oil worker on a rig (2.26); l/s of oil rig with the sea beating against it (2.30); workers speaking to camera (2.41); shot of a small ship in the rough North Sea (2.46); man talking to camera from a control room (2.57); man talking to camera (3.42); (3.43); c/u of man on rig (4.05); brief shot of workers on the rig (4.12); man talking to camera, geology diagrams, l/s of rig, men operating rig (6.06); drilling in process, men standing around near drill (6.36); pan of Ekofisk (7.17); man talking, diagrams of wells, control room, various interviews with workers from the different platforms with background shots of the rigs/control rooms etc (12.16); safety procedures notice, safety drill with workers getting into a life boat, boat lowered into water; workers all wear "Phillips Petroleum" on their jackets (13.21); gvs of rigs and sailing vessels, water jets on rig to put out 'blow outs', men talking to camera, safety instruments are shown, divers, and the "Phillips SS" diving bell (17.42); medical bay on the rig, doctor treating a patient (18.01); medical staff, helicopter taking patient to land, gvs of medical staff and facilities. gvs of rig life, including the helicopter shuttle service, television , gymnasium etc. Ekofisk....One of a kind (30.22)