The geologists explored for oil on our farm.

So I decided to track down one of the world's most respected authorities on the subject.

But this is it, this is the oil in the world.

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

Geologist.

Intrinsically safe environments

And every single oil is different when it hits water.

In the 1950s,

Suburbia, and many communities were designed on the assumption of plentiful oil and energy.

We're geologists.

Alright. What else?

Geology.

He's a fuel merchant.

I'm a deputy geologist at the office of science and technology policy.

And they've managed to keep out the seismologists and the oil workers with spears and blowguns.

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

A deepwater oil platform near the Indonesian archipelago.

Hands weathered and worn and proud of it.

I decided that I could think laterally.

The talk will be broadly about energy, but oil's a good place to start.

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

There's no oil in it.

Oil.

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

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

The napalm is burning there quite nicely.

They're very important in oil spills.

Uh,oil in Burundi.

Bioenergy is oil.

This is the Earth, as it looked 90 million years ago.

One quality of oil is that it floats on water.

Of course there's still a lot of old thinking out there too.

Arabia abounds in oil.

America abounds in oil.

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

We need to have more mobility choices.

And there's Dan Etete.

And then there's Dan Etete.

They buy and sell big companies.

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

They are boring the ground for oil.

Oil often spilled by tankers also adds to water pollution.

That seems to make more sense.

. ..mathematics, logic, physics, geology and bi ology?

These are pipeline routes, which emerge from Kurdistan, which is an oil rich region.