Oil Wars. Geopolitics and World Power 1900-1945, vol. I

An analysis of the geopolitical clash among the states for the control of the world oil sources since the late XIX century until 1945. Firstly, there was the great conflict between the German Empire and Great Britain over the Ottoman Empire and the dynamics regarding the south-western Eurasia, the so-called Middle East. After the Great War, France and Great Britain dominated the Middle East areas and signed the San Remo Agreement (1920) regarding their world oil interests and the Red Line Agreement (1928) together with the United States and the oil expert Calouste S. Gulbenkian, the master of all the Ottoman-Iraqi oil matter. Secondly, the analysis focused on the geopolitical struggle in the Eurasian landmass among Great Britain, Germany, USSR, Japan and USA (1939-1945). Appendixes with the examination of the synthetic hydrogenation plants in Germany (Bergius and Fischer-Tropsch processes, appendix 1); the partnership between the Standard Oil of New Jersey and the IG Farben (appendix 2); the San Remo Agreement (appendix 3).