| Description | Running time: 48 minutes. Colour. Film about the construction and laying of the twin 32" pipelines.
Narration in English over footage from the operations and animations. First 57 seconds an introduction to the Frigg Field. 1.54: manufacture of the pipes at Invergordon, storage, cleaning and anti-corrosion coating. 4.21: Peterhead harbour and loading the pipe sections onto boats. Footage of boats and helicopters offshore. 6.35: Pipes unloaded from supply boats, preparations for welding, pipes fed into welding area and aligned. Footage and animation of welding procedures. X-rays of completed welds for quality control. Pipes fed overboard, with animation to show pipes underwater. 11.23: Control room and navigation of boats in the flotilla. Footage and animation to show how the pipeline is positioned and the pipelaying barges are moved and positioned.16.00: Explains how and why pipe ends are dropped to the seabed and relocated later. 17:15 Boats in rough weather and progress report/facts and figures concerning the work carried out during by the close of the 1976 summer season.19.42: Description of double-joint welding and the recordbreaking 4.3 kilometres of pipe laid in 24 hours. 21.05: Pipelaying at the St Fergus coastline. 22:28 MCP-01. Animation, footage within the central core and footage of divers shows the connection of subsea pipes to MCP-01.27.24: Manned submarine launched to inspect pipes. 31.31:The joining of the ends of the sections of pipeline underwater, including hyperbaric welding. Includes animation and footage of divers. 40.26: Burial, inspection and testing of the pipeline.46.32: Atmospheric shots of all the Frigg installation (MCP-01, St Fergus and the Frigg platforms) whilst narration summarises financial and production information. |