| Description | Running time: 19 minutes 59 seconds. Colour. English language.
From start until 29 seconds are shots of large waves crashing against rocky coastline. 0.29 Frigg Field platforms and supply boats in stormy weather, filmed from one of the boats. Description of the field and the platform locations. 1:28 Flare stack provides backdrop to opening credits, with synthesizer music. 1:53 Map of North Sea showing Frigg's location relative to other fields and countries, conditions in North Sea and the challenges they pose described. 2:15 Construction footage from Norway and Scotland, interspersed with animation to show progression, with narrator providing statistical information and description of construction process. 3:56 Brief shot of the 'Christening' of the platform before being towed out of the dock. More construction footage. 4:54 Animation and construction footage to show how the structure is lowered into the deep water as the top is built up. Focus on the purpose and statistical information about the derrick crane. 6:22 Aerial, and some sea-level, footage of several platforms being towed out to the North Sea. Shows placement of them with animation to show sub-sea processes.8:16 Offshore construction footage; men and structures lifted from boats to the platforms. 9:10 Supply boats in bad weather with supplies being lifted to platforms during bad weather with minimal safety precautions. Explanation of challenges faced. 10:31 Pipelaying footage, showing welding, checking and laying of the pipes from the barges. Working conditions, construction processes and statistics, and positioning methods explained, with animation to show subsea processes. 13:20 World records for depth and speed of pipelaying explained. 13:28 Footage of hyperbaric welding on the seabed. 14:32 Ground and aerial footage of St Fergus Terminal with an explanation of its purpose. 15:04 Animation of all the platforms and pipeline. 15:44 Launch of a mini-sub and its inspection pipelines, with radio chatter in French between the sub and the surface. 17:47 Helicopter take-off from platform, shots of crewmen on board. Aerial footage of the Frigg Field and flaring. Narrator summarises achievements and successes. |