Blood & Oil is an American prime time television soap opera[1] created by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne, that premiered on ABC on September 27, 2015.

[2][3] The series follows a young couple that moves to fictitious Rock Springs, North Dakota, after the biggest oil discovery in American history.

Blood & Oil also stars Amber Valletta as his catty socialite wife, Carla; Scott Michael Foster as his villainous son Wick; and Miranda Rae Mayo as his illegitimate biracial daughter Lacey who has an affair with Hap's personal driver, AJ Menendez (Adan Canto), who leads a triple life.

On January 30, 2015, it was announced that the project had returned to ABC and had been picked up as pilot,[7] which was filmed in Northern Utah and was directed by Jonas Pate.

[11] On August 5, 2015, it was announced that Cidre would be replaced by Jon Harmon Feldman as showrunner, after the production ran into problems due "to its big scope".

[17] On March 11, Chace Crawford joined the series as a main protagonist,[18][19] while Yani Gellman and Caitlin Carver were cast as regulars.

[23][24] On July 20, 2015, it was announced that Aurora Perrineau had replaced Caitlin Carver in the role of Lacey; the character was changed from white to biracial, since Hap fathered her out of wedlock.

The website's consensus reads, "High stakes and bawdy plots make Blood & Oil's plain premise and characters tolerable.

"[43] Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post criticized the series, stating "Aside from Don Johnson's canny oil baron, and as we found with the "Dallas" revival, one savvy old dude can't always carry an entire show on his back, especially when the rest of it is so mechanical."