Drilling-501

The film tells about the experimental deep oil drilling at the Kurtamak-501 drilling rig according to the method developed by Soviet and French scientists. Group photo portrait of oil workers working at the experimental site "Kurtamak - 501". Kuibyshev region An oil rig at the Kurtamak-501 drilling rig. On the site there is a billboard with an inscription in Russian and French "Kurtamak - 501. Deep Hose Drilling Machine USSR-France". Drillers, French and Soviet specialists at work on the rig. Various plans for a deep hose drill. Oilmen's wagons. Interviews with experts in which they express different opinions about the method of drilling oil wells without pipes (sync.). April 1972. Russian and French flags on an oil rig. A group of specialists present at the rig as observers of the experiment. The cameraman is preparing to shoot. Drillers and engineers are preparing the rig for start-up. French experts are inspecting the equipment. The driller foreman speaks on the intercom. Start of operation of the deep hole drilling rig: the drill on the umbilical is lowered into the borehole. Experts, the scientific leader of the experiment, Leonid Timofeevich Papirovsky, oversees the operation of the equipment. The installation stops. Emergency buttons on the control panel flash. Experts discuss the shutdown of the equipment, study the drawing. General view of the rig. Drillers' carriage. It's raining. Russian and French experts, head of the experiment L.T. Papirovsky, driller talk about the prospects for slag-cable deep drilling of oil (sync.). General view of the oil rig in the evening; drillers at work.

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Lyricist B. Svoisky, sound engineer I. Kokorin, editor B. Kozhin, script A. Polushkin