Summer 2000 [Poland] Offensive Revisited

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

As for the derelict oil tanker found in Going Home, may I suggest that as the piece that allowed OMEGA to be done in one lift? Otherwise, I suspect that it would have taken all winter to pull it off, using some oil requisitions from Iran.

That's exactly what the canon material is saying. I believe we also know from canon that there is little to no oil being sent from the middle east - there may be enough being produced to keep some aircraft in the air, but it's still in too short a supply to fill a ship bound for anywhere. At best we may see lubricants shipped to Europe and perhaps Korea, but nothing more, even to facilitiate getting a small percentage of the European forces mobile for a few weeks ala the Soviets and the Ploesti fields.
Shipping sufficient fuel from the middle east to all withdrawal of US forces isn't going to be possible for many years.

So where did the oil tanker come from? My guess it was adrift for a couple of years, floating about on the ocean currents after the crew succumbed to radiation sickness or some kind of fast acting disease. It could be more recent than that and be a shipment from the UK North Sea wells, but I can't see the UK sitting still for that much oil just "disappearing" from their custody. I believe most of that is piped out anyway.