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.
本片的劇情開始於1889年，最後的結局終結於1929年。主人公攜帶妻子來到美國西部的俄克拉荷馬州，打算在草原上建設他們的新家園。然而，西部生活絕非一帆風順。他們同當地牧場主產生了利益糾紛，糟糕的治安環境使得土匪時常侵擾。主人公同情印第安人，經常做出一些義舉。他還組織親朋好友開發油田、開辦報紙。這些舉動卻招來了更多的仇恨，最終主人公在油井失火中喪失了性命。在長達40年的時間之中，主人公到達的地方原本只是一個偏遠地區的小城鎮，結果由於在地下發現了石油而蓬勃發展起來，到1929年的大蕭條之前已經成為了一個繁榮的都市。這個過程也可以看做是美國西部大開發過程中無數城市身上所發生故事的縮影。
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, employed film systematically, producing many films on oil and petrochemical subjects. It also made films depicting Iran's progress and modernization, highlighting the role of the Shah and NIOC in that direction. Under its auspices, Ebrahim Golestan directed A FIRE (1961), a highly visual treatment of a seventy-day oil well fire in the Khuzestan region of southwestern Iran. This film was edited by the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad and won two awards at the Venice Film Festival in 1961.
Wildcatter Johnny Maverick and his pal go to a town in oil country offering $25,000 to the person who brings in the first well. They find oil on the outskirts but have to sell a share to a promoter who hires Johnny's old enemy.
Filmed in the Inner Mongolian portion of the Gobi Desert, this film follows a group of oil field workers as they go about their daily routine.
Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious crew of wildcatters arrives, including a stalwart drilling magnate, his tool-pusher and a young roughneck associate, who endeavor to save the ranching empire by trying to bring in a methane gas well.
“An Imminent Threat” follows a fisherman activist, Yngve Larsen, who fights against oil and gas drilling activities in north of Norway. Will Yngve succeed in avoiding the extinction of many species of fish and thus irreversible damage to our planet?
An oil driller falls for the lonely farm wife of a man working in Budapest.