Dans un futur non défini, les réserves de pétrole sont épuisées et la violence règne sur le monde. Max, un ancien de la sécurité routière, se porte aux secours d'une communauté de fuyards aux prises avec des pirates de la route. La bataille se concentre autour d'une citerne de raffinerie.
Lorsque Daniel Plainview entend parler d’une petite ville de Californie où l’on dit qu’un océan de pétrole coulerait littéralement du sol, il décide d’aller tenter sa chance et part avec son fils H.W. à Little Boston. Dans cet endroit perdu où chacun lutte pour survivre et où l’unique distraction est l’église animée par le charismatique prêtre Eli Sunday, Plainview et son fils voient le sort leur sourire. Même si le pétrole comble leurs attentes et fait leur fortune, plus rien ne sera comme avant : les tensions s’intensifient, les conflits éclatent et les valeurs humaines comme l’amour, l’espoir, le sens de la communauté, les croyances, l’ambition et même les liens entre père et fils sont mis en péril par la corruption, la trahison… Et le pétrole.
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Le magnat du pétrole Sir Robert King est assassiné dans l'enceinte même du bâtiment ultramoderne des services secrets britanniques. James Bond réussit à éliminer l'auteur de l'attentat, une tueuse professionnelle travaillant pour le terroriste international Renard. Craignant que ce dernier ne s'en prenne désormais à la fille de King, Elektra, 007 se charge de la protéger. En Azerbaïdjan, où King avait commencé à exploiter un nouveau gisement pétrolifère, l'agent secret retrouve Valentin Zukovski, un ex-agent du KGB devenu mafioso, qui va l'aider dans son enquête.
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.
Norwegian engineers are searching for oil and Egon Olsen convinces his friends to buy stocks in the oil market. In the process, Egon, stumbles upon a scheme to fool the Norwegian Government that there is indeed no traces of oil in the North Sea. The Olsen Gang tries to tell the ministry the truth about the oil but they are caught by Sheik El-Altan who, in order to make sure the boys keep their mouths shut, kidnaps Valborg and brings her to Egypt.
Antoinette Vitrini, a volcanologist, confirms her theory of a long-dormant underground volcano after an offshore-drilling rig bursts into flames. Now, she must stop catastrophic amounts of magma from pumping out right under Miami, Florida.
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.