Military conflicts in parts of the world with lots of oil supplies can make it difficult for oil companies to drill and ship crude oil.

Those large structures house machinery and equipment needed to drill and/or extract oil and gas.

Henry Feniger, president of Get Oil Out, a 20-year-old group formed after the 1969 blowout, said the solution was not drilling oil but saving oil.

The problems on the Indians' land began in 1972, when a Texaco subsidiary started drilling oil in an arrangement with Petroecuador, the state-owned oil company.

The Kuwaiti monarchy made Saddam even angrier by drilling oil out of Iraqi wells.

The clients drill oil, build cars and run banks.

He is a greedy business man who helps bribe the government to acquire the land in Teapot Dome to drill oil.

Bair was the first to drill oil in this area and started the Bair Oil Company for which the town was named.

Oil royalties are payments from the petroleum industry to the Treasury for the right to drill oil on Federal land.