Oil, Sweat and Rigs is the story of one of the greatest industrial recovery and repair operations since the Second World War, and the biggest ever mounted by the oil industry.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed 121 platforms and rigs, severely damaged 71 platforms and rigs, breached 148 oil and gas pipelines, and laid waste to five major refineries.
Oil riggers working on the front lines of the recovery operation face extraordinary technical challenges, and work in uniquely dangerous conditions. At sea they have to battle waves in excess of 30 feet, 80-mph winds and driving rain.
In each episode, some of the world's biggest machines do battle as riggers attempt mind-boggling feats of engineering, including the biggest lift ever carried out at sea and repairing pipelines 1,000 feet beneath the ocean. Oil, Sweat and Rigs weaves fantastic technology and science with the human drama of rough and tough people working at the very limits of human endurance, in difficult and sometimes terrifying conditions.
Executive Producers: Malcolm Clark & Liesel Evans