The United States, the world's largest oil consumer on the planet, is experiencing an oil boom.

This week Ginny Stein reports from North Dakota, a state which is attracting millions of dollars in investment for new oil wells. However it isn't just the oil companies that are getting rich, those who hold the mineral rights of the land are also getting a healthy slice of the profits.

Will North Dakota's newly found oil help solve America's dependency on foreign oil?

Also in this episode: Africa's Cocaine Coast

Dateline invites you inside west Africa's Guinea Bissau, an impoverished nation fighting a dangerous underground cocaine trade.

Latin America's feared drug cartels have established a new pipeline for their lucrative trade and Guinea Bissau is caught in the middle. The country's army spokesman tells Video Journalist Amos Roberts he knows he's fighting an uphill battle against the cartels and the widespread corruption the trade has spawned.

These days, however, there are serious allegations of criminal involvement by senior military and government figures, and luxury homes – funded by drug money – continue to multiply in the deeply impoverished capital, Bissau. But the army's Chief of Staff denies his men are involved in the drug trade.

About International Dateline 

SBS Dateline, which began in 1984, is Australia's longest-running international current affairs program. It has a well-earned reputation for authoritative and incisive reporting. Dateline has taken the traditional way of producing TV current affairs and turned it on its head. Reporters who used to travel with a cameraperson and sound recordist now travel alone and have the responsibility of both filming and reporting their stories. The reporters became video-journalists, gaining access to people and places that the conventional camera crews cannot.