Oil Exploration Mugs

Windfall in oil.

Little Oil

'We geochemists did very well before there were geophysicists.'

Buoy with message: 'On this site will be erected a beautiful new twelve story drilling platform that will pump 10,000 barrels of oil a day'.

Wishing well turns into an oil well.

'We've struck off-shore oil!'

'Do you see a tall, dark formation of shale oil?'

Oil gushes out of a oil derrick on a computer screen.

'What do you mean don't tell anyone, we'll keep it in the bathtub?'

"I warned you not to use that club...now look, you struck oil!"

"Does this mean you're not going to plant that cute little tree?"

Oil Rig with Day Care Centre.

"Bad news, Beatrice - I struck oil on the south forty."

'Sir, we've drilled so deep this time that we've reached Arab oil.'

Pummping oil on troubled waters.

"Pollution? Noise? Better than whale oil."

"It's wonderful, Harry! How late does Neiman-Marcus stay open?"

'Are you sure that's the right map?'

"Davina McCall: Life at the Extreme takes a celebrity to the most extreme places on Earth!"

The fate of the emigrant

The experienced backpacker.

'For your information, I am engaging the energy of change and complexity to create the future I desire.'

Spot the difference.

Check out the nice crawdads I have in the bait bucket, George.

(oil - petroleum - gushing out of inkwell)

"You say it all the time, so I climbed every tree to prove it. You were right, money doesn't grow on trees."

'The church says the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round for I have seen the shadow on the Moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church.'

Road sign: "Good Start, but you've still got a ways to go."

"The Ice Age must've caught him by surprise..."

Man painting over a 'You are here' sign.

Alien David statue

Winter Coat Check at a Tropical Destination's Airport

'I want to visit the very EDGE of civilisation, to explore the BRUTAL shores of natures most REMOTE regions. If you could manage that with a five star hotel and first class travel it would be perfect.'

"Congratulations, Amruk. You prove they do exist."

'We look for a new drug, we find a virus - we look for a new virus, we find a drug...'