Oil in T2k

[Olefin]

Originally Posted by Raellus

The subject of refinery production figures in the Middle East v. Olefin's Kenya came up in another thread but I think the wider topic of oil deserves its own thread.

The idea of exploiting oil shale on the Baltic shelf has been brought up elsewhere.

Where is being produced, refined? Who has access to it? Who controls it? What is its importance in the year 2000?

The French would be putting a lot of effort into getting refineries up and running in countries that were part of their old colonial system - given some of the dispositions of their military forces pre-war they would be in able to move troops to secure working refineries or get the ones that were damaged back up and running. That is something that wasnt in the canon specifically prior to the Kenya module but is now - and given the French interest in spreading their influence is a pretty logical assumption - i.e. controlling what oil is left is one reason they deployed into the Middle East in the RDF after all