Sentences with phrase «oil prospectors»
Oil prospectors refer to individuals or companies who search and explore for oil reserves deep underground. They conduct surveys, analyze geological data, and drill wells to discover potential locations that may contain oil. Their goal is to find new oil sources for extraction and exploitation. Full definition
It was the story of one tormented man — the lonely and driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview: a magnificent performance from Daniel Day - Lewis whose masterpiece this was, too.
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He was the obsessive, driven oil prospector who sounds weirdly like John Huston: he harangues his associates — and bullies and manipulates.
The 2007 period drama about a driven, single - minded oil prospector in the southern California oil boom was chosen by critics from Total Film magazine.
Day - Lewis plays turn - of - the century oil prospector Daniel Plainview, whom the film follows from his beginnings as a silver miner to a finale nearly 30 years later.
Biographie, he comes across like the demonic oil prospector Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood when he writes, «The struggle for victory is fun, but I can't celebrate something once it's been won.»
This is bad news for oil prospectors drilling in permafrost: if they encounter a pocket of hydrates, the released methane could rupture their drilling equipment.
A team led by Durham University geologist and former oil prospector Jon Gluyas, together with Oxford University geochemist Chris Ballentine, adapted oil prospecting methods to suss out ways Earth might concentrate helium gas generated naturally by underground radioactivity.
There Will Be Blood follows the story of oil prospector Daniel Plainview's (Daniel Day - Lewis) unquenchable ambition.
There Will Be Blood's ruthless, loveless oil prospector Daniel Plainview craved possession of land and human souls in roughly equal measure; The Master gave us two spiritually poisoned men, each shaped and gnarled by dysfunctional relations with women, whose power struggle built into a crippled romance of egos.
It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields.
But it has been criticized for, what some say is, an over dramatization of the Huoarani Tribe's fight to keep oil prospectors off their land.
And that oil prospectors look for traces of fossils that indicate there might have been life on that spot MILLIONS of years ago to help them determine if there's oil under there.
Scientists and oil prospectors have drilled the crater in the past, but the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364 was the first to explore Chicxulub's central peak ring.
The oil prospectors who originally collected the Bedout cores also assumed that the rocks were volcanic.
I ask him how could a movie centred on the clash between an oil prospector's desire to make it rich and a evangelical pastor's spiritual attempts to stop him be anything else?
Ever since Boogie Nights, the untamable Paul Thomas Anderson has thrilled us with the mania of self - made men — porn stars, game - show hosts, oil prospectors and cultists.
Ever since «Boogie Nights», the untamable Paul Thomas Anderson («There Will Be Blood», «The Master») has thrilled us with the mania of self - made men — porn stars, game - show hosts, oil prospectors and cultists.
The interests of ecologists, native Alaskans, oil prospectors and the federal government are constantly rubbing up against each other, making for a lot of litigation work, often with a regulatory slant.