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What if the oil in Libya was found by the Italians during the late 20s. How would it change Fascist Italy and WW2???
What if the oil in Libya was found by the Italians during the late 20s. How would it change Fascist Italy and WW2???
Threads of this type just make me shake my head and sigh.
So, Mussolini's Italy "finds" oil in Libya? Just how does that happen give 1920s technology and geological knowledge? Jedellini Clampetti is out shooting for some food and up from the ground comes a bubbling crude?
So, what if Mussolini found Libya's oil? That depends on how he found it. Is Libya's geology hugely different or does Mussolini have advanced technology? No matter which way you answer, finding Liyba's oil will only be one of the minor effects of the POD.
Than there is this war. Several actually. I figure the one with Ethiopia is superfluous.
Without the war in Ethiopia, Italy remains on the outs with Germany.No, I stay neutral, reinforce Libya to make sure the Brits don’t try something with my oil wells, because they don’t want me sell it to my buddy Adolf who get the special dictators discount. Of course I sell the Brits all the oil they can pay for, too.
Actually, Ardito Desio discovered subsurface oil in 1938, but a wider search for deposits was first made difficult by the lack of deep drilling equipment and then halted by the war.
The 1920's post war restructuring of the Italian Military peaked in ?1935?. The second round of restructuring was to be done by 1942~43.Now I know what some people will say, but the Italians got trounced in Greece, it wasn't until the Germans pitched in that the Greco-British forces were defeated.
Actually, Ardito Desio discovered subsurface oil in 1938, but a wider search for deposits was first made difficult by the lack of deep drilling equipment and then halted by the war.
Not at all. What Italy relly needed to exploit libyan oil is better relation with USA, which had that technology, if I remember correctly. Hardly impossible, though we can discuss about its probability.
And yes, you'll need help from the Americans, strictly speaking the Texas oil industry which IIRC were the ones with deep well experience.
Geekhis,
Mea culpa. No more Clampetts from me.
Bill
However, people always forget in threads like this that drilling deep isn't the same as knowing where to drill deep and the presence of surface deposits don't automatically equate the presence of deep deposits.
Jedellini Clampetti is out shooting for some food and up from the ground comes a bubbling crude?