Graham Eaton / A PDC (polycrystalline diamond compact) type oil field drill bit on one othe Kimmeridge ledges. Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, UK, March. The ledges are hard Jurassic age, carbonate rich horizons of Limetone...

Graham Eaton / Exposure of Kimmeridge claystone, a hydrocarbon source rock. Rock with multi direction minor jointing and thin bedding, Kimmeridge, Dorset, England, UK.

Adrian Davies / Stop Drilling at Leith Hill sign at Fracking Protest Camp, Leith Hill, Surrey, UK. March, 2017

Adrian Davies / No Fracking in UK sign at Oil Drilling and Fracking Protest Camp, Leith Hill, Surrey, UK. March, 2017

Adrian Davies / Oil drilling and fracking protest camp, Leith Hill, Surrey, UK. March, 2017

Adrian Davies / Oil drilling and fracking Protest Camp, Leith Hill, Surrey, UK. March, 2017

Adrian Davies / Kill the Drill at Leith Hill sign at Oil drilling and fracking protest camp, Leith Hill, Surrey, UK. March, 2017

Adrian Davies / Bottles of dirty water at oil drilling and fracking protest camp, Leith Hill, Surrey, UK. March, 2017

Graham Eaton / Cemented nodules within sandstones of the Jurassic, Bencliff grit, Osmington Mills, Dorset, UK. The cementation preferentially develops from a seed grain. The brown staining of the sandstone is oil, a...

Graham Eaton / Oil hydrocarbon seep from Jurassic age, Bencliff grit sandstones, seen as dark wet patches and brown staining, near Osmington Mills, Dorset, UK. It is because of oil seeps such as this that the nearby...

Mark Carwardine / Oil containment booms on boat ready for deployment, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, USA, August 2010

Mark Carwardine / Aerial view of Minerva Virgo oil tanker / chemical tanker sailing along coastal waters, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, USA, August 2010