Geologists scoured America.

Since then, the world has used approximately half.

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

Evidence is now mounting that world oil production is peaking, or is close to it.

The discovery of oil enriched the country.

Oil has been discovered under the North Sea.

The discovery of oil was a lucky accident.

When many wells are averaged together, the combined graph looks like a bell curve.

Before WW1, all agriculture was Organic.

Alright. What else?

Fortunately for them, most of their oil and gas resources were discovered after the Soviet Union collapsed.

He's a fuel merchant.

Since 1860, geologists have discovered over 2 trillion barrels of oil.

All of the alternatives to oil depend on oil powered machinery, or require materials such as plastics that are produced from oil.

If we burn fuels such as coal, oil and gas, they give off various gases.

We've stumbled on another energy bonanza in fossil fuels.

They're very important in oil spills.

And this area of the Ecuadorian Amazon oil was discovered in 1972.

American petroleum Institute. It's fair to say that's the oil and gas lobby.

Uh,oil in Burundi.

Bioenergy is oil.

We need to have more mobility choices.

The desert was advancing by a mile or two a year.

There's no oil in it.

Oil.

The lines of supply are long, placing strains on a limited oil resource.

And every single oil is different when it hits water.

And there's Dan Etete.

It's just a sign of things to come.

Tastes like petrol. That's what it is. Excellent.

Coal powered industrial revolution in this country oil, gas, sorry.

Intrinsically safe environments

The napalm is burning there quite nicely.

It's not true, of course, but that's the media impression, and that's like what you get.

I'll tell you what, Stuart.

Uganda has just discovered oil, in about the most disastrous location on Earth

As the pressure grew, so did the heat, until a chemical reaction transformed the organics into hydrocarbon fossil fuels

For every four barrels of oil that we consume, we only discover one.

They substituted coal for oil.

Plastic is the defining feature of cheap electrical goods.

That country abounds in oil.

That's a person down there by the wheel.

Conservation will save you money, but it alone won't save the planet.

We need to stay away from the moratoriums.

You're a consultant now with an Asianbased oil company.