Where would this German company extract oil? Did the Germans have the technology for North Sea extraction at this time(pre 1914)? Maybe the company would have operated in a colony or in cooperation with the Ottomans.
Nope the North Sea oil fields were unknown then and first usable offshore oil platform came in 1930s in Texas, USA
but so strange it sound but Germany is a Oil production nation, not much today 46,839 tonnes a year, put it on place 55 of top 100 oil producer.
most field are located in Lower Saxony and today Mecklenburg-Vorpommern also small one in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria
Exploration of those fields were in hand of the DEA (
Deutsche Erdöl Aktiengesellschaft)
This is interesting here if DEA becomes state owned oil company in 1912.
Others German companies were more creative like ARAL
a consortium of German Coal mining industry (in 1930s better now as "Benzol-Verband" ) who produce Benzol and sold Petrol-Benzol-spirit mix as ARAL car fuel
DAPG (
Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft) today ESSO, make same Petrol-Benzol-spirit mix
Only difference DAPG was part of US Standard Oil...