Petroleum Industry in Popular Culture
The Petroleum industry's influence on modern society has made it a favorite subject in contemporary fiction. Most notably films like There Will Be Blood (2007) set around Southern California's oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and Syriana (2005) set in present-day Middle-Est.
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