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Oil Strike!

Genres: Reality, Documentary

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Oil Strike! is a docu-reality series filmed for the Discovery Channel about a group of very different people, some men and some women, who are risking it all on massive gambles to strike oil or gas.

The series premieres in South Africa on DStv's The Discovery Channel on Monday 28 January 2008, at 21h00.

Repeats are on Wednesdays at 09h10 and 18h30.

Synopsis

Oil Strike! follows the rollercoaster journey of independent oilmen as they gamble their reputations, livelihoods and sometimes their health on finding an elusive reservoir of black gold.

This is the story of a group of very different people, some men and some women, who are risking it all on massive gambles to strike oil or gas.

In Illinois, Brad Gesell must drill past dangerous pockets of methane gas to hit oil. If he gets it wrong, he could send his rig sky high.

In Texas, Cactus Schroeder must drill from the top of a mountain to find oil. Poker player Al Adler is betting over one million dollars that he'll find gas in northern California.

Husband-and-wife team Jim and Debbie Mietchen think they've found a massive oil field beneath the plains of Kansas. But will this rig be the one to spoil their near 100% record?

Each of them can only drill for 10 days before their cash runs out. This is a story of success and failure.


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