On the vast shores of Lake Turkana, a steam drilling machine belched thick black smoke, as the boilermen endlessly fed coal into the furnace. Driven by the turbine, the heavy metal drill bit continued its work, up and down, piercing through the rock layers. The workers cleared the rock debris brought up with tools into wheelbarrows, which were then wheeled away and piled to the side. This was an oil exploration site in East Africa.
"Mr. Kars, can we really find oil here? This is the sixth well we've drilled this year, and it feels like we're wasting our time. This situation is undoubtedly like finding a needle in a haystack," oil worker Sol asked.
Sol's team were professional oil workers, who had returned from Austria-Hungary's oil-producing region three years ago to help find oil in East Africa under the kingdom's orders.
