Title card: The Interstate Oil Compact Commission Presents
More Oil and Gas for Today and Tomorrow
Produced and Photographed by Bob Bailey Productions
[Introduction] "This is an oil rig. Its business? Drilling for oil."
"These are oil men. Probing the depths of the earth for...petroleum"
Construction process of oil rig
Wide view of oil rig and off-shore oil rig
Oil spraying from pipeline. "This...is oil."
[History of Oil Industry and Increasing Demand for Oil]
Oil under microscope
Picture of oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, described as first successful discovery well
Sign: "Drake Well Park, On this site "Col." Edwin Drake struck oil Aug. 27, 1859; the birth of the petroleum industry. Administered by the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission"
Workers using oil and gas-powered machines
"How long can our oil industry supply this ever rising demand?"
Early photographs of oil wells
Early automobile
Waste in early oil industry
Gas flare
[Formation of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission]
Map of states with membership in Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Sign: Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission
Reports and pamphlets created by the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission
[Purpose and Principles of the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission]
Purpose: "The conservation of oil and gas by the prevention of physical waste from any cause."
3 Principles:
Engineering and geological principles
Legal principles
Economic Principles
[Finding and Drilling Oil Reservoirs]
Animation showing layers beneath earth's surface, and places where oil and gas deposits are likely to be found
Oil detection techniques
Animation showing the relationship of oil, gas and water in layers beneath earth's surface
Animation of drill boring into earth
Gauge by Cameron Iron Works
Workers "bringing in a well"
Animation of drilling
Pan from bottom to top of wellhead control device known as a "christmas tree"
Animation showing the "water drive" technique
Animation of water input wells alternated with oil producing wells
Animation of "gas input"
[Planning Process for New Wells]
Aerial view of "discovery well"
Animation of oil well, highlighting planning issues of estimating oil deposit size and determining landowner rights
Engineers planning spacing pattern for wells
Well operators making recommendations to state regulatory body
Mediating landowner conflicts
"Unitized" fields
Researchers discovering new production methods, refining techniques, and uses for petroleum, gas and byproducts
Animated graph showing increase of Oil and Gas Consumption versus increase of Oil and Gas Reserves
Animated graph of Price of Gasoline versus Price of Bread
Summation
Logo for the Interstate Oil Compact Commission
Title Card: Sunoco, From the Film Libraries of Sun Oil Company
Produced film on the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission, covering its 1935 formation, purpose and principles. Contains live
footage mixed with animation documenting oil and gas well planning and construction. Topics covered include unitized fields and the water drive technique. Also provides a brief history of the
petroleum industry and makes a case for petroleum as a continued energy source for the United States. Includes footage of the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission headquarters in
Oklahoma and a plaque for Drake Well Park in Pennsylvania. Film closes with the logos of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission and Sunoco, with a title card reading, "From the Film Libraries of
Sun Oil Company". Color internegative picture with sound. Extra metadata on film leader includes: "End- Print 1; Interneg. [Internegative]."
