Exterior view of the terminal.
Ceyhan Oil Terminal was a fictional pipeline terminus owned by Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough. It was operated by King Industries.
History[]
The main entrance.
Sir Robert King has planned du built an 800-mile pipeline, delivering oil from Baku to the west, 'past the terrorists in Iraq, Iran and Syria', as Elektra explained to Bond. Apart from some stretches in Georgia and north-western Azerbaijan, the pipeline is nearly completed, when Sir Robert dies. Elektra plans to complete the pipeline, the terminus is located in Ceyhan, Turkey, from where the oil is to be loaded in tankers, and shipped to Europe over the mediterranean sea.
Description[]
Control room[]
The control room.
The big screens inside the control room.
Apart from the pipeline itself, the most important room at the terminal is the control room. Several desks with computers are facing a large screen wall, where the current status of the pipeline can be shown. During the Renard incident, Elektra and M follow Bond's actions inside the pipe from here. There is also a smaller area, connected to the main room through glass doors and windows. It is used by M and Bond to speak more privately.
Helipad[]
M arrives at the helipad.
A helipad is located outside of the main building. M arrives here by helicopter - and against her will she leaves in a different one.
Behind the scenes[]
The building where the oil terminal scenes were filmed was actually the Motorola plant at Swindon, Wiltshire. The plant had been opened by the Queen in 1998 and was very futuristic at that time. Motorola sold the plant in 2009, and in 2010 the iconic 'tube' on the roof, resembling a pipeline, was dismantled.
Trivia[]
When looking at the maps seen in the movie, the filmmakers used quite some fantasy when drawing the border line between Turkey and Syria, and they also changed the actual location of the city of Ceyhan. The real city is located 30 km away from the mediterranean coast.
