A commodity thing, an oil well...

Somewhere near the Carver Oil Field.

Sold stock in nonexistent oil wells. Cincinnati, Ohio.

We want to explore an underwater oil field.

David Vincent had come to the Carver Oil Fields in Houston.

Well, they're having a convention on Field 1.

How are you going to feed Britain? How are you going to feed London?

They operated an oil well.

We've been through this before with other ways of offshore drilling.

Though large, neither field comes close to satisfying

And the Defense Minister she had the tank corps and Air Force and so forth.

He risked his whole fortune to discover new oil fields.

Their last beachhead was Carver's Oil Field.

In spite of advanced technology, the decline in the discovery of new american oilfields has been relentless.

I found it inside an abandoned tank car in Field 1.

This is an early on photograph you can see, we had these gushers.

This oil field used to produce an order of magnitude more oil as it does now.

It has 2,000 life cycles these days.

We already have some indicators of productivity on this stuff.

In this country, terrorists who blow up American oil wells are heroes.

We were asked in the past when we bought an electric car to pay for the entire well, for the life of the car.

Without provocation, suddenly she attacked, against her Prime Minister's orders, the next door neighbor's oil fields.

And whale oil lit practically every building.

This tape is proof that the two men who were killed in Field 1

In the year I've been here, I've found out about Carver Oil.

Here you're looking at some oil fields in California, some of the biggest oil fields.

That is 0.5 percent of the U.S. oil consumption.

Meet me at Field 1, on the siding.

Over 40 years later, the decline in the discovery of new fields seems unstoppable.

longwall mining, fracking, tar sands, tar shale, deep ocean Arctic drilling.

I know how this is gonna sound, but you've gotta get the security guards out to Field 1 right away.

The foundation of this curve is that we keep losing the wells that are close to the ground.

Where's Ota and Adachi?

Hey, Sawada.

Mr Yoshida was born in Yamagata prefecture, and graduated from Nihon University College of Art with a degree in oil painting.

The only thing that really reduces the amount of oil that we consume is much higher prices.

The difference between

Oil Paint...

Oil Paint

Oilpaint

I'm Okuda. Satoshi Okuda.

This engine, well, it's driven by our international banking system, by the problem of anonymous shell companies, and by the secrecy that we have afforded big oil, gas and mining operations, and, most of all, by the failure of our politicians to back up their rhetoric and do something really meaningful and systemic to tackle this stuff.

It's called The Country.

Yamada?

Yamada!