Originally broadcast on FX in the USA in June 2005 three months before Hurricane Katrina hit the state of Louisiana, this feature-length docu-drama proved eerily prophetic.

"You couldn't help wondering how a British TV company could work all this out but the world's most powerful government couldn't" said the Daily Telegraph, continuing "Oil Storm did an alarmingly fine job of exposing the glaring weakness of the US economy".

The Observer wrote "few films can have been more accurate in teir portrayal of impending doom than this effort".

The Independent on Sunday called the film "disturbingly prophetic".

The Times advised "The opening sequences are uncanny, with 100,000 people forced to sleep in the Superdome. Given this, the bulk of the film which concerns the ensuing, year-long oil shortage, should be watched with care."

Oil has been the life blood of America for the past 100 years but in September 2005 a hurricane blew into