Examines oil workers, including what they do on a typical day, what the grossest parts of the job are, and what technology they use to stay safe and make the job less gross.
Traces British Petroleum's rise to power, revealing how their cost cutting measures, negligence, and deceit have caused serious environmental damage, destroyed family businesses, and killed people.
The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it.
An exploration of the job of an oil rig worker that describes what they do and discusses challenges and dangers they face, their training, and other related topics.
After their father's death, the three Stoddard girls travel with their mother back to the family farm where they struggle to survive during the Dust Bowl and put all of their faith in the success of a wildcat oil well.