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Uses graphics, demonstrations and live footage to look at the processes of oil refining: fractional distillation; petrol, kerosene, light oil, gas oil or diesel, lubricating oil, bitumen; detection and...
A debate about oil depletion policy with leading figures in the oil business. The argument is structured around a hypothetical oil policy review by a new oil minister. Moderated by a barrister Marc Cran, the...
In 1989 the oil tanker ‘Exxon Valdez’ ran aground and split open off the coast of Alaska, spilling 10m barrels of oil into the sea. The ecological disaster sparked an angry debate about the oil...
1: Extracts from a HORIZON programme on North Sea oil technology and a NEWSNIGHT item on the price of North Sea oil. The HORIZON extract shows that North Sea Oil production is at the forefront of available...
Focuses on reservoir rocks and the best ways of extracting oil from them, looking at sandstone reservoirs and at recovery methods for reef oil deposits, with demonstrations of how oil can be extracted by...
This DVD examines the properties and uses of crude oil. It introduces the chemical compounds that exist in crude oil and shows how it is refined into many of the fuels and products used in modern society....
Three part series which tells the story of global energy security, at a critical juncture in the history of humankind. Travelling to many oil and gas producing territories around the world, ‘Planet Oil’...
Filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack’s film agues that the world’s oil resources are in dangerously short supply and that the price of oil is about to rise to previously unthinkable levels. The film...
Technical problems and economics mean that it is often not possible to recover more than half the oil from an underground reservoir. New methods are being explored to recover more oil from proven fields....
This film documents the non-violent attempts by Greenpeace activists to stop the Russians drilling for oil in the Arctic. As the sheet ice melts around the northernmost region of the world, oil companies see...
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