Film about keeping up with the free world’s growing oil needs.Middle Eastern oil well. Camels walk past. Men lay electronic monitoring devices, to check for oil after a controlled explosion in the ground. At the Shell Oil development company laboratory, a Van Der Graff accelerator subjects rocks to atomic bombardment. Shots of various gadgets in the laboratory; CU of meters and knobs. Aero Service Corporation make a relief map of the Earth’s surface from an airplane. Pilot checks numerous read outs.