Texaco, 1970s
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| (waves crashing) | 0:00 | |
| (seagull cawing) | 0:02 | |
| - | When we were (indistinct) nation, | 0:03 |
| the sea was a part of our defenses | 0:04 | |
| that help keep foreign powers out. | 0:06 | |
| But the sea was important to us in other ways too. | 0:08 | |
| In the early 1800s, | 0:13 | |
| America's only source of oils swam in the ocean. | 0:15 | |
| (sailor shouting) | 0:19 | |
| (intense music) | 0:20 | |
| (waves crashing) | 0:23 | |
| (banjo playing) | 0:25 | |
| But over the next 75 years, | 0:26 | |
| America's need for oil changed and expanded as she did. | 0:28 | |
| And during the last 25 years or so | 0:34 | |
| petroleum has become America's prime fuel. | 0:36 | |
| But today, while eight out of nine exploratory wells drilled | 0:40 | |
| don't produce any harm at all, | 0:43 | |
| our need for oil is even greater than ever. | 0:45 | |
| Since it's becoming harder to find oil on land | 0:49 | |
| in this country, | 0:52 | |
| we returned to the sea. | 0:54 | |
| (seagulls cawing) | 0:56 | |
| Because geologist tell us that beneath the sea | 0:57 | |
| lie some of the largest potential oil peels known to man. | 1:00 | |
| But instead of returning in an old fashioned square record | 1:04 | |
| we returned with a sophisticated drilling rig. | 1:07 | |
| And instead of a 20 foot harpoon, | 1:10 | |
| we used thousands of feet of drill pipe. | 1:14 | |
| At Texaco, we share the old whalers respect for the sea. | 1:16 | |
| So we're very careful. | 1:20 | |
| On every rig, highly trained technicians | 1:23 | |
| use dozens of electronic safety devices, sanctions, | 1:25 | |
| and monitors. | 1:29 | |
| Where men can't see, | 1:31 | |
| underwater TV cameras are watching for them. | 1:33 | |
| And on the well itself sits a blowout preventer | 1:38 | |
| that can shut down a well in seconds. | 1:41 | |
| At Texaco, when we tap the resources beneath the sea, | 1:44 | |
| we do everything we can | 1:48 | |
| not to harm the things that live in it. | 1:49 | |
| At Texaco, we are working to keep your trust. | 1:53 |
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