Japan discovers oil in Manchuria in the 1930's
This has popped up on the AltHistory board http://alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=70329 So, in OTL, the Daqing oil field, in the northern Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, was...
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Oil exploration technology and recovery methods were quite different between the 1950s and 1930s. Japan with no exploration companies to speak of would be hard pressed to develope the field.
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seasick wrote: Oil exploration technology and recovery methods were quite different between the 1950s and 1930s. Japan with no exploration companies to speak of would be hard pressed to develope the...
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By the 1930s Royal Dutch Shell was producing far more oil in Indonesia and Malaysia. The Japanese enterprise was still relitivly small. By 1970 Japan had produced 176 million barrels of oil,...
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Finding a decent quantity of oil means that the war against China can go on, as oil embargo would have reduced effect. No need to attack Indonesia, and no need to secure communication lines by taking...
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seasick wrote: By the 1930s Royal Dutch Shell was producing far more oil in Indonesia and Malaysia. The Japanese enterprise was still relitivly small. By 1970 Japan had produced 176 million barrels of...
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