So you think you can manage a drilling operation?
- simulation 1
- Build, Drill and Connect
- simulation 2
- Brave the elements
- simulation 3
- Handle equipment, lead a team
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SHOWTIMES
Wednesday, September 8 2010
9:30 PM
Worst Case Scenario
RATED 14+. Bear escapes a sinking car, and encounters a rattlesnake and a snakebite victim.
Duration: 1800 minutes
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Wednesday, September 8 2010
10:00 PM
Mayday
RATED 14+. A minor emergency turns into one of the worst disasters in British aviation history, when an engine catches fire on takeoff; the pilots abort but fire overcomes the aircraft in just six minutes; 55 of the 137 people on board lose their lives.
Duration: 3600 minutes
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Wednesday, September 8 2010
11:00 PM
Daily Planet
A daily science show that delivers a fascinating mix of documentaries and features; hosted by Jay Ingram and Ziya Tong.
Duration: 3600 minutes
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Thursday, September 9 2010
12:00 AM
Mayday
RATED 14+. A minor emergency turns into one of the worst disasters in British aviation history, when an engine catches fire on takeoff; the pilots abort but fire overcomes the aircraft in just six minutes; 55 of the 137 people on board lose their lives.
Duration: 3600 minutes
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Thursday, September 9 2010
1:00 AM
Mighty Ships
Get an unprecedented look at USS Kentucky, one of the U.S. Navy's Ohio-Class ballistic missile nuclear-powered submarines; virtually undetectable, she is capable of launching a surprise nuclear attack on any country in the world.
Duration: 3600 minutes
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Drillers Simulation Game
Drillers Arcade Game
Episode Summary
Nabors blasts open its two wells in northeast, B.C. using a complex engineering procedure known as frac’ing. It is the only way to release the gas trapped underground and to know if the company’s multi-million dollar investment this season has paid off. North of the Arctic Circle, MGM boss John Williams and his men have only a handful of days left to complete drilling their third and final well. The pressure is on to clear off the Mackenzie Delta by early April, before the ice melts and moving out the rig becomes a deadly game of chance.
Extras
The Chill Factor
It’s not easy shooting a TV doc north of the Arctic Circle. Crews take a good 20 minutes to bundle up, just so they can grab a mere 30 minutes of footage outdoors before the cold puts a freeze on their work.
Making Licence to Drill
Check out some behind-the-scenes images of our Licence to Drill television crews in action and discover how the series was made. Cool photos include cameramen hanging from helicopters and a director rigging a camera to a giant piece of drilling equipment.
Directors' Notes (MGM)
Directors Leslie Lucas and Stavros Stavrides traveled thousands of kilometres north to film MGM’s winter drilling operations in the Arctic. Find out what it was like to live on a wellsite in the middle of nowhere and to work outside in temperatures that hover around – 30 °C daily.
Directors' Notes (Nabors)
Licence to Drill Director John Westheuser shares his new appreciation for the sacrifices drilling crews make to support their families. Working 12 hours a day in remote locations, isolated from friends and family for weeks at a time is as tough as it sounds.
Did You Guest Right?
Episode
Does the mud prevent Nabors from moving the rig to its second well?
- No 75%
of you were right! No, a temporary water problem gets fixed and the frac happens on time.
Episode
Make Your Prediction this week! Check out the results in episode 2. See if you guessed right!
Latest Video
Directors' Comments (MGM)
Discover the challenges of making a TV show 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle outdoors in winter.
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Natural Gas Timeline
Historical accounts of natural gas seeping out of the earth in a flame date back to 500 B.C in China. Today, over two thousand years later, countries around the world are still looking for the fossil fuel. Only now, once they find it, it is transported across a vast network of pipelines before it makes its way into our homes.
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Latest Photos
Ralph's Photo Shoot
We turn the camera on Licence to Drill photographer Joe Wiecha as he takes pictures of MGM employee Ralph Vanderlinden.
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