The Oil No One Owns

SCP-#### in Ontario, 1994. This picture would appear on advertisements and wanted ads for SCP-####.

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: No personnel are allowed to stay within the perimeter of SCP-XXXX, especially if SCP-4356 is expected to relocate. Mobile Task Force Pi-12 (“Where’s Rockefeller”) is to set up a listening post outside the perimeter of SCP-XXXX‘s new location, where they will surveil the activities of SCP-XXXX-1. Should an SCP-XXXX-1 instance exit the perimeter, a member of Pi-12 is to follow the instance, and ensure that the instance returns to SCP-XXXX. All SCP-XXXX-1 instances should be inside the perimeter prior to SCP-XXXX‘s relocation.

Civilians attempting to receive employment at SCP-XXXX are to be directed to a false website for the refinery.

Description: SCP-XXXX is the designation of a 3 km² plot of land, housing an oil processing refinery, 12 active oil pumps, and an undetermined amount of petroleum.¹ Most structures within the area have shown signs of corrosion, presumably neglected by SCP-XXXX-1, with the exception of the oil refinery and extraction wells. Approximately every 24 months, SCP-XXXX will relocate to a new, petroleum rich spot on Earth.

SCP-XXXX-1, currently totaling 140, are the workers of SCP-4356. Each instance is clothed for cold weather, overlooking the temperature of the surrounding environment. Majority of the instances were a part of the refinery’s original workforce in 1972, some instances were civilians who breached containment and entered the perimeter of SCP-XXXX. Even though all instances are above the age of 90 years, they show no signs of cellular senescence and physically look mod-40 to 50 year old.²

SCP-XXXX-1 have only been seen leaving the perimeter of SCP-XXXX to post flyers at nearby population centers, advertising job openings for the refinery.

SCP-XXXX was first discovered during the Alaskan oil boom following the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.³ The area was purchased by the now defunct company, Amco LLC, in 1972. Majority of the workers were contracted to live inside SCP-XXXX.

SCP-XXXX had its first recorded anomalous event in 1974, relocating to an unknown location with all of the oil refinery’s workers. An MTF unit, Pi-12, from Site-213 secured the area, restricting civilian access. The event was covered up, reporting that an oil well fire burned the refinery and all of its workers. However, in 6/19/1994, one of the workers, identified as Jeffrey Jude Morgan, was seen walking into a town near Ontario, Canada; posting several flyers where he was spotted by his family, causing several news outlets to begin reporting his reappearance. A Foundation misinformation caimpaign began reporting that the family’s claims were hoaxes, and Site-201 sent a research team to perform a covert exploration of SCP-XXXX before the site relocated. See Exploration Log-XXXX for details of the mission.

SCP-XXXX was found 690 km from Baku, Azerbaijan on 3/12/1999. D-32471 was implanted with a tracking device and was given a falsified résumé. She was instructed to apply for a position in the refinery, where then the device would provide the Foundation an accurate location of SCP-4356. D-32471 successfully applied to work, whereafter SCP-XXXX relocated from Baku on 12/31/2000. An SCP-XXXX-1 instance was retrieved for an interview. See Interview Log-XXXX.02 for a transcript of the meeting.

Pi-12 submitted their proposed containment procedures of SCP-XXXX, and was permanently assigned to containing SCP-XXXX. The task force would occasionally encounter civilians attempting to enter the refinery for job applications.

+ Exploration Log-XXXX

SCP-XXXX Exploration log

Team: Mobile Task Force Pi-12

Primary Objective: Enter the refinery inside SCP-XXXX to gain a schematic diagram of the facility.

Timeline:
[15:04] Pi-12 is positioned on the road leading to SCP-XXXX.

[15:48] Two oil tankers were seen leaving the refinery. Possibly transporting oil.

[15:49] Pi-12 enters the perimeter. Passing by several employee barracks.

[15:54] Pi-12 hides behind several transports in the refinery parking lot.

[16:00] Refinery alarm goes off.

[16:11] SCP-XXXX-1 are seen exiting the main entrance of the refinery, heading towards the barracks.

[16:56] Lights inside the refinery are turned off.

[17:05] Pi-12 enters the refinery.

[17:07] Pi-12 report that three more trucks leave the refinery⁴.

[17:11] Team enters the refinery.

[17:14] An SCP-XXXX-1 instance, later identified as the foreman, is seen entering an office.

[17:20] Unidentified entity enters the office, holding a red paper and several folders.

[17:21] Shouting from the office is heard. (Lieutenant Cardon reports hearing, “Keep the place running, or I’ll have you running!”)

[17:27] Unidentified entity is seen leaving the office. Foreman leaves 2 minutes later.

[17:31] Research team enters the office, which only contains a singular table, a chair and several mugs.

[17:34] Pi-12 enters the main processing area. Pipelines are rusting and unstable. The cracker’s⁵ efficiency was tested to have declined.

[17:38] Pi-12 exits the facility.
[17:43] As Pi-12 exits the area, some members reported hearing gulping sounds from the barracks. Pi-12 was advised to extract from the area.

[17:50] Pi-12 is extracted by helicopter 500m from the perimeter.

+ Interview Log-XXXX.01

Interview log XXXX.01

Interviewer: Dr. Samuel Ross

<Begin Log>

Foreword: An interview was scheduled with an SCP-XXXX-1 instance in order to learn more about SCP-XXXX. An MTF unit apprehended an instance and led the entity to the interview.

Interviewer: Bring him.

(Several guards enter with the entity. Entity began resisting, leading the guards to handcuff the entity to the interviewee’s chair)

SCP-XXXX-1: No! No, please! I can give you whatever you want!

(Entity attempts to break the handcuffs’ chains)

Interviewer: Calm down. Just, calm down. I just need you to answer me these questions.

SCP-XXXX-1: Questions? Give me the questions. What are they?! I need to go back!

Interviewer: Just calm down for a minute, your answers are no good if we can't understand you.

SCP-XXXX-1: Just give me the questions!

Interviewer: Do you know that your workplace relocates to other parts of the world?

SCP-XXXX-1: No! The place has a foundation! It doesn’t move! Now please let me go!

Interviewer: We have several more questions, then you can head back. Where are the—

(Entity had now decayed into a blackish ash, at the same period SCP-XXXX had relocated)

Interviewer: What the hell? Hey! What the hell happened to him?

<End Log>

Closing Statement: Interview ended before the interviewer could ask more questions prior to the entity's expiration. The matter left behind the entity was tested to be 84% carbon, 12% hydrogen, 4% other elements.

+ Interview Log-XXXX.02

Interview log XXXX.02

Interviewer: Dr. Keaton Whitaker

Foreword: The interview is a continuation of the one intended on 1994. As such, some questions would have been updated.

<Begin Log>

Interviewer: Hello, SCP-XXXX-1, let’s begin shall we? We are aware that your job needs much of your time, so this shouldn’t take too long.

SCP-XXXX-1: Oh, no. Take all the time you could need.

Interviewer: Now, there are several questions I would like to answer. Most of these questions are related to you, your work, and your associates. Please answer these to the best of your ability, and you shall be allowed return to your facility.

SCP-XXXX-1: Okay.

Interviewer: This is one of the few times you were found outside your workplace. And often when you do, it is rarely time for yourself.

SCP-XXXX-1: And?

Interviewer: We would just like to know, do you believe that you deserve some…off time? R&R?

SCP-XXXX-1: Rest and relaxation. (laughs) Yes, I deserve my relaxation. I am entitled to it. And I need it. Corporate has us doing the same thing since forever. The work we do in that place does not make up for how much time off they give us.

Interviewer: And what about the other workers? If everyone gets time off, then corporate isn’t going to earn money. That’s not going to motivate them to give time offs.

SCP-XXXX-1: Yeah, every single one of them deserves time off. We hunched over working in that goddamned place, scientists will think we’re missing link. Ain’t nobody doesn’t deserve the right to relax.

Interviewer: (places stack of flyers on top of desk) We found you posting these up near the gas station. What were you tasked with?

SCP-XXXX-1: Boss said to post these up near town. Not sure if it’s working though. He really wants us to keep posting this.

Interviewer: And corporate told your boss to put up these flyers.

SCP-XXXX-1: No, strangely enough. He said that he came up with the idea. The one thing corporate hasn’t ordered.

Interviewer: Do you know how long you would have to work for?

SCP-XXXX-1: As of now, there isn’t a defined term.

Interviewer: What do you mean?

SCP-XXXX-1: Well, my contract says that my work lasts until the well runs dry.

Interviewer: And is the well going to dry up anytime soon?

SCP-XXXX-1: Not for a long time as I know. The techs‘ deadlines for it has never been right.

Interviewer: So you don’t know when you can leave. And you still want to work in there?

SCP-XXXX-1: Nah.

Interviewer: So why don’t you quit?

SCP-XXXX-1: I mean, still need a job. My wife needs the money.

Interviewer: You wouldn’t know where your refinery shipped its oil to have you?

SCP-XXXX-1: There’s a distribution center at Vancouver. Though I don’t know why you couldn’t just ask corporate to send you a list.

Interviewer: We tried, but we haven’t been able to reach them.

SCP-XXXX-1: Sounds like the corporate I know.

Interviewer: Do you know where we can get a manifest of all of the trucks that came a few months ago? You know, sometime around that?

SCP-XXXX-1: Um…we haven’t had a truck come since forever.

Interviewer: Never?

SCP-XXXX-1: No, we haven’t really had to send out a truck.

Interviewer: Well, that concludes the interview. Davis here is gonna drive you back to the refinery.

<End Log>

Closing Statement: The SCP-XXXX-1 instance was later safely returned to SCP-XXXX. According to Davis, the instance rode the way back to the refinery listening to Rocket Man, on the radio, and claimed that “It just came out”; Rocket Man was released on 1972.

Addendum XXXX.01: Several Foundation analysts believe that SCP-XXXX‘s oil reserves are unlimited. It is currently believed that it could take several decades until a rough estimate, for when the reserve would empty, could be determined.

Footnotes

1. See Addendum XXXX.01.

2. A phenomena where normal cells cease to divide.

3. Though its believed that the anomaly existed prior to its discovery.

4. This was the last time tankers were seen entering or exiting SCP-XXXX.

5. A piece of equipment that creates high temperatures to break down carbon bonds.