oil

Saudi Aramco was founded in 1933 by what became Chevron. Oil discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. After World War 2 the Saudi government took over half of it's shares. After the Yom Kippur War it was completely nationalized. But What if before the Third Saudi State was established in 1902 a...

This is probably a highly unlikely scenario, but I'm curious to see what comes up. Starting around the 1900s or some time after, the challenge is this: What series of events would need to occur such that fossil fuel use has been significantly, if not entirely, phased out, at least in America if...

If William the Bastard conquers England, does the Oil language stand a good chance against Lingua Franca/Lemosin, the Lemosin language, and Lingua Franca became the common language in France causing the Oil language to be moribund in Francia but in Lorraine and Brittany it is flourishing, would...

I see that the Oil language is official in Lorraine but the Lenga Franca(Occitan) language almost has assimilated the Neusrian Language in France(Franca/Francia), Eleanor of Aquitaine's son, Saint Philip promotedf Lenga Franca. Could we split the Neustrian-speaking regions from France? or have...

Both countries have similar sized populations, both countries have similar amount of oil reserves in their territory, yet Saudi Arabia is immensely more wealthy than Venezuela. Is it plausible that Venezuela can be as wealthy and prosperous as Saudi Arabia?

What if large scale oil desposts were discoverd in the Middle East during 1920 and exports of oil makes up majority of the econmic activity of the region and Middle Eastern oil exports are of geopolitical significance by 1939. Also the technology to extract Middle Eastern oil depots is know by...

Since there were refugees who were Romance and Brythonic speakers in Britain to Northern Gaul, how did they influence the Oil languages?

The other day I read about the Iran Crisis of 1946. What if things turned out differently and the country was split into a Northern Communist part and a non-Communist Southern part? Would the split last? Would there come a proxy war? Does the 1979 Revolution (or something similar) still happen...

World War II was a war of resources. The most crucial Allied operations, the "Three Tide-Turning Battles" (named so despite being operational level and each containing several fights) centered around the crucial axis oil fields of Matzen, Libya, and Manchuria. At the cost of hundreds of...

IOTL, Japan in WW2 suffered from shortages of many goods required to fight a modern, industrialized war, most prominently oil. They would go to war in Indochina and Southeast Asia to seize these resources, also provoked by the US oil embargo, and we all know how well that turned out for them...

Hi all. I am looking for some numbers on Oil consumption in WW1. Preferably for all belligerents but particularly for Britain. The closest I have been able to find was a quote from the Wikipedia Article "Economic History of World War 1" which claims (Quoting from The American Petroleum...

As the TL says. I was thinking that if by some reason there's a right-leaning government in Venezuela in the 60s (for instance, if Medina Angarita or Pérez Jiménez aren't overthrown), that government would have been more friendly towards the United States and wouldn't have tried to create an...

The Visigoths would see that the Franks would be a threat to them if they had no buffer between them and decided that they would support Syagrius rather than letting him fight himself against the Franks and knowing that the Alans would also be defeated by the Franks, they would let that the...

So in much of the middle east of OTL, we see a a pattern of countries striking liquid gold and discovering huge oil reserves in their borders. They then use this oil wealth to become wealthy countries, and in many cases diversify their economy by investing in trade, finance and tourism. This...

With the caveat that there were plenty doing similar work, what does the removal of the Pew Brothers change in the Republican Party and America? It’s a ton of money and organization applied during key times to shift the Republican Party that’s now gone… you’ve got Goldwater and the religious...

The United States has the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) which–as the name might suggest–is a government controlled oil reserve equal to roughly just over a month supply at current usage in case of interruptions to oil supplies, prompted in large part by the 1973 oil crisis. It's the largest...

One of the great victories of the US in the Cold War was their out-manoeuvring of both the British and Soviets for position of pre-eminent power in the Middle East. Combined with American economic and banking power, good diplomacy helped ensure that the US had (and still has) a privileged...

I was watching this video (The main reason why Germany lost WW2- OIL) on youtube, and the poster argued that a severe oil shortage in Germany was the main reason for their defeat, and that if they didn't attempt an invasion of the Soviet Union by 1941 and win, they would run out of Oil as a...

Before the 1908 Young Turk revolution, Cars, and the tools to make them were banned, only exclusively for the Sultans, and other officials. This ended after the Young Turk Revolution, in which all restrictions to make cars were finally lifted. Ottoman entrepreneurs went straight to trying to...

IOTL, during WW2, before Germany attacked the Soviet Union, France and Britain contemplated on attacking Soviet oil fields in Baku from their air bases in Syria and Lebanon because the Soviets were exporting oil from there to Germany, feeding its war machine and making the Allied blockade less...