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This programme reveals the untold story of the 87-day battle to kill the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout a mile beneath the waves, a crisis that became America’s worst environmental disaster. Engineers and...
Scott Pelley reports on a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over oil drilling pollution. Chevron is America’s third largest company behind ExxonMobil and WalMart. One way it became that big was by buying Texaco...
Looks at the ecological disaster in the Arabian Gulf resulting from the oil spills and burning oil wells of the conflict in the area that began in August 1990. Follows the progress of the oil slicks along...
In the Soviet Union oil production threatens the ecosystem of the tundra of western Siberia, homeland of the nomadic Netsy people. In the Gorbachev era, environmentalists found the freedom to speak out about...
Documents the construction and placement of a steel oil platform designed to be permanently fixed on the sea floor up to 80 kilometres off the Victorian coast in the Bass Strait. The design had to last up to...
Shows the hazards involved when fire breaks out at an oil well, and the measures taken to extinguish the fire. Shot in 1951 when fire broke out at a well in Persia.
How oilmen decide where to drill and how the drill works. The old method of siting a well is contrasted with new, more scientific, techniques. The erection of a derrick is shown and the practice of drilling...
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