Manchurian and Chinese oil deposits Japan occupied...

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Manchurian and Chinese oil deposits Japan occupied...

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Post by flakbait » 27 Feb 2015, 13:33

Was curious about the estimated oil and petroleum reserves that are now known to exist in Korea, Manchuria and Siberia that Imperial Japan either occupied or would have been able to easily seize to fuel her economy and military with vs the sources in the Dutch East Indies...understand too that modern oil extraction is several times more productive than it was in the 1930s; even so was it enough to have at least been worth exploiting it, being FAR closer to the Home Islands and not needing to be shipped across vast sea lanes vunerable to air and submarine interdiction...

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Post by stg 44 » 27 Feb 2015, 16:46

Part of the problem is the oil in Manchuria is pretty deep, so its not exactly like the Japanese had the technology to exploit it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daqing_Field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin_oil_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaohe_oil_field


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Re: Manchurian and Chinese oil deposits Japan occupied...

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Post by flakbait » 27 Feb 2015, 17:35

Understand. Know there are some oil deposits in northern China also. Wasn`t going to count off shore oil fields...

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