This sounds a lot like how Pastor Lindsey Williams described a similar event in Alaska, of hitting a "mother lode" of crude and TPTB moving in to shut it down and threatening everyone to keep quiet about it. Yes, it sounds A LOT like that nonsense.
I was working Alaskan North Slope projects when I posted the following on that topic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047053/posts
I spent three years bouncing between Anchorage and Fairbanks...
Beautiful place... I keep thinking it's either the wilds of Alaska, Canada, or some deserted isle in the Pacific if things keep getting worse here in the lower 56... ;)