In Sumatra, Indonesia, locals are drilling for oil right in their own backyards.
No modern rigs. No billion-dollar budgets. Just handmade wells, simple pumps, and pure determination.

What’s even more striking — they don’t just produce the oil, they also refine it themselves, using small-scale, homemade distillation setups. Crude oil is boiled in makeshift drums, separated into usable fuels like diesel and kerosene, and sold locally.

It’s raw. It’s risky. But it shows a fascinating side of the oil and gas world — where necessity drives innovation outside the corporate structure.

This raises big questions: safety, environmental impact, but also resilience and local ingenuity.