Oil Company Branch

I was in charge of opening a new oil company branch, in a sandy dessert area we were going to start drilling for oil on ground, I went to the area, all there was were around ten houses and a small fence airport, the rest was sand and dunes, I thought I might have been on an island but I never saw the ocean, I wanted to hire for the company one of the locals that lived in one of the ten houses, the guy reminded me of the Osama Bin Laden family, I insisted he come work for the company, but he had other interests...