What if the British and Dutch had started petroleum well fires? Since Imperial Japan had so little experience developing petroleum fields to begin with, having to extinguish fires could cause further delays.
If you are really really lucky, you find a field where pure oil wants to come out of the ground by itself.
Even if that happens, almost inevitably, after an initual flush of production lasting months, the well settles down into a mix of oil and water that needs to be pumped.
You can see the problem with setting fire to wells.
A related problem is how the air gets to the fire once the pump isnt working.
Refineries, set on fire quite well. Indeed, having them not do this is the big challenge with running a refinery
A better solution for wells involves merely dropping a small explosive charge down each well, to crack the casing and make the well impossible to pump, untll it is redrilled and has new casing installed.
Alternatively, if you're short of explosives, a new concrete plug can be poured in, and once it hardens it will need to be drilled out.
The Allies did both these things.
In any case, the Allies did a good to decent job on crippling the fields and the refining capability, as all the IJN efforts to use crude oil where refined was needed shows.