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Alaska Oil Reserves Journey To Prudhoe Bay
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keywords: alaska, prudhoe bay, north slope, oil fields, oil drilling equipment
Synopsis: Master HD drive #578. Details the sealift of modules and oil drilling equipment to Prudhoe Bay to develop the Alaskan oil reserves (oil field) on the North Slope of Alaska and to build the Alaskan pipeline...(read more)
- Date: 1975
- Duration: 00:24:12
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States













































Alaska Oil Reserves - Journey To Prudhoe Bay
Panning view of Alaska North Slope. Low aerial view of herd of migrating Caribou running across the tundra on the North slope of Alaska. CU of male Caribou. Shows oil drill rig on Alaskan North Slope. Drilling for oil in Alaska.
Shows construction and assembly of mammoth modules at Puget Sound that house the oil and gas gathering equipment for the Alaskan oil pipeline (Trans-Alaska Pipeline or Alyeska Pipeline). Modules are loaded on ocean going barges and transported to Prudhoe Bay. Shows ocean going tugboats and barges departing Puget Sound at Seattle-Tacoma Washington. Animated map shows the sea route from Puget Sound to Prudhoe Bay. Shows tugs and barges stranded in ice field off point Barrow. At Prudhoe Bay workers sink pilings into the tundra to support the modules. Panning view of community at Point Barrow. Shows tugboat pulling barge loaded with a module in open sea. Shows unloading of supplies and equipment at Prudhoe Bay. Low aerial view of causeway where modules will be unloaded. Shows modules transported on giant crawlers. At Valdez trucks loaded with giant beams head out for Prudhoe Bay.
Shows Coast Guard icebreaker clearing a path for the tugboats and barges off Point Barrow. Shows modules continue to move forward on giant crawlers during an arctic storm at Prudhoe bay.
Trucks loaded with supplies leave Fairbanks and cross the Brooks Range of mountain passes that rise to eight thousand feet on way to Prudhoe Bay. Aerial view of truck traveling Dalton Highway (originally known as "Pipeline Road") through Detrick Pass. Low aerial view of Alaskan Pipeline (Trans-Alaska pipeline) that when completed will run from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.
Shows activity at Prudhoe Bay. Pipes are welded inside a mobile welding hut to form a gathering system. Shows helicopter lifting a heating unit and in flight to an ice bound barge. Shows a machine cutting through and removing the thick ice to build a gravel causeway out into the sea to unload the ice bound barges. Shows crane lifting large thick blocks of ice. Shows large truck hauling gravel to extend gravel causeway out into the sea.