WI: Oilfields more accessible to the Axis

Matzen is in Austria, Schoonebeek is in the Netherlands. The North German fields are relatively minor in comparison with those. That really doesn't help Germany until Austria is annexed. IIRC the Matzen field is pretty deep too, so isn't readily accessible to the methods of the 1930s.
I'm not sure if that is true. These are the peak years for Austria, West Germany and the Netherlands from the table in Post 80.

3,608,211 Long Tons - Austria 1955

7,801,994 Long Tons - West Germany 1967

2,357,400 Long Tons - Netherlands 1965
 

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I'm not sure if that is true. These are the peak years for Austria, West Germany and the Netherlands from the table in Post 80.

3,608,211 Long Tons - Austria 1955

7,801,994 Long Tons - West Germany 1967

2,357,400 Long Tons - Netherlands 1965
In the 1930s they were minor. I'm not sure about what the increases in production in Germany were by the 1960s (or why the dropped during WW2 according to your charts), but it may well only have been due to the technologies of the day that they were viable.
 
As the oil will be discovered about 10 years before the war started IOTL, one of the first questions is how much will Weimar Germany be affected? Could the NSDAP still come to power with a better German economy? When will Austria and the Netherlands start looking for oil in their territory?
My opinion is that the earlier discovery of oil will not have any effect whatsoever on the Nazis rise to power.

I think that because even if German oil production in the early 1930s ITTL was as high at it was in the late 1960s IOTL the improvement in Germany's economic performance would not be big enough. There isn't enough oil to turn the Wiemar Republic into an analogue of Saudi Arabia. It will help Germany's balance of payments by reducing the need to import oil, but it isn't going to reduce the number of unemployed in Germany by millions.

Furthermore Germany isn't going to be producing 7.5 million long tons of oil in the early 1930s in any case even if the oilfields were discovered between 1925 and 1930. The first factor is time and the second is money. In the second case AFIAK/IIRC the Nazis inherited the plans for the synthetic oil industry and the autobahn network from the Weimar Republic. And AFAIK those plans had existed for several years, but a shortage of money had prevented their implementation. I think the same situation would have applied to the oilfields in Germany hand they been discovered earlier.
 
How about Imperial Japan? If Daqing oil was discovered earlier, how would it change?
That would have been good for Imperial Japan, and bad for the rest of SE asia. Interesting that it seems there was Oil aplenty for Italy and Japan, and even quite a bit more for Germany if only they had been found in the 1920's and been up and running by the mid 30's.
 

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The Axis actually sat on alot of oil in Libya. They didn't know it (Libyan oil was discovered in the 50s) and they lacked the technology to exploit it anyways.
 
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