The International Society of Energy Advocates raised the money necessary to commission artist Jay O'Melia to create a seven-foot bronze statue depicting the
Oil Patch Warrior. An identical statue is located at Ardmore, Oklahoma
How oil production started in the UK and how the tenacity
of Sir Phillip Southwell bought the Americans from Oklahoma to Dukes Wood in
the heart of Sherwood Forest at a time of great national need.
The story of how Eugene Rosser and the other Roughnecks from
America found
themselves working in secrecy in an English Woodland where Robin Hood and
his Merry Men once roamed.
