During the first season of Landman, we encounter the protagonist, Tommy Norris, hooded and shackled, delivering a lecture to his Mexican cartel captors. The kidnappers are as unhappy that Tommy is building oil pumpjacks on West Texas land they have been using to smuggle drugs and migrants into the United States as they are unconvinced that his bosses will come to his rescue.

“It costs six million to put in a new well,” Tommy, played to curmudgeonly perfection by Billy Bob Thornton, patiently explains. “They’re putting in 800 right f***ing here. That’s 4.8 billion in pumpjacks. They’ll put in another billion on water and housing and trucking. At $78 a barrel, that’s 6.4 million a day for the next fifty f***ing years. So, yeah, the oil company’s coming.”