About Oil: The Race for the Last Reserves | The Struggle for Oil - Geological Deceptions (Full Film)
How much oil is left - and what happens when the world’s most important energy source becomes harder, riskier and more expensive to extract? This compelling energy documentary investigates the global dependence on crude oil, the theory of peak oil and the environmental dangers of deep-sea drilling. Beginning with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it examines how technological failures, financial pressure and difficult drilling conditions contributed to one of the worst oil spills in history. Travel from oil fields in Austria and Saudi Arabia to research centres in Europe, Canadian oil sands and offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists, geologists, engineers and industry experts reveal how oil is formed, how new reserves are discovered and why many of the world’s largest oil fields may be declining. The documentary also explores enhanced oil recovery, horizontal drilling, water injection, polymer technology, Arctic exploration and the enormous financial and environmental costs of extracting unconventional oil. It investigates the use of chemical dispersants during the Deepwater Horizon cleanup and questions their impact on marine ecosystems and human
Oil: The Race for the Last Reserves | The Struggle for Oil - Geological Deceptions (Full Film) is presented by wocomoDOCS. Its listed runtime is 55 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
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- Oil: The Race for the Last Reserves | The Struggle for Oil - Geological Deceptions (Full Film)
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- Society
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- 55 minutes
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- English
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- wocomoDOCS
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