Andrew Pendakis on How to Run a Pipeline through Heidegger.

Being notoriously relies for its essence on the existence of human beings; if Dasein were to cease to exist so too would Being itself insofar as the latter is the special preserve of the only entity for whom Being is an issue. Being is a relation, the prerogative of a self- interpreting, self-questioning human encounter with what appears.

The notion that oil might be phrased in the language of ontology is, then, utterly foreign to the project of Being and Time.