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What if The ASB's relocate the world's oil reserves in 1858?
Topic Started: May 4 2011, 12:22 AM (187 Views)
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Let's presume that some ASB decides to mess around with the world's petroleum geography in 1858. This is one year before the first oil well is dug.


The places with altered oil reserves(use the following site as a reference: https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../2178rank.html ) are:
1 South Africa which now has the full oil reserves of our world's saudi arabia.
2 The area of what would become our world's zimbabwe has Iran's oil reserves.
3 Australia which now has Iraq's oil reserves instead of it's OTL reserves.
4 Argentina which now has Kuwait's oil reserves instead of it's OTL oil reserves
5 The Phillippines now has the United Arab emirates' oil reserves.
6 Colombia which now has Venezuela's oil reserves instead of it's otl oil reserves
7 Brazil which now has Libya's oil reserves instead of it's current otl reserves.
8 Cuba which now has Nigeria's oil reserves
9 Ukraine which now has kazachstan's oil reserves
10 Chile which now has Qatar's oil reserves
11 Uruguay which now has Algeria's oil reserves
12 The Dominican republic which has brazil's OTL oil reserves
13 Armenia has Azerbaijan's reserves
14 Iceland has Sudan's reserves
15 Lebanon has India's oil reserves
16 The waters off of Singapore have Oman's oil reserves
17 The (relatively) accesible portions of Danish greenland contain Egypt's oil reserves
18 Jamaica contains Indonesia's oil reserves.
19 Portugal has australia's OTL oil reserves
20 Guyana has Yemen's oil reserves
21 Nicaragua has Malaysia's oil reserves
22 Belize has Syria's oil reserves
23 New Zealand has Argentina's otl oil reserves
24 El Salvador has Gabon's oil reserves
25 Honduras which has Colombia's otl oil reserves
26 Sweden now has the Republic of Congo's oil reserves
27 Ireland now has Chad's oil reserves
28 Spain now has Brunei's oil reserves
29 Barbados which now has Equatorial Guinea's oil reserves
30 Paraguay which now has Turkmenistan's oil reserves
31 Surinam which now has uzbekistan's oil reserves
32 Dominica which now has east timor's oil reserves
33 Cape verde which now has pakistan's oil reserves
34 Sao Taome and principe which now has Tunisia's oil reserves
35 Saint Vincent and the grenadines which now has Ukraine's oil reserves
36 Saint Lucia which now has Turkey's oil reserves
37 Greneda now has Albania's oil reserves
38 Cyprus has the democratic republic of congo's oil reserves
39 Switzerland has Cuba's oil reserves
40 Samoa gets the phillippines oil reserves
41 Tonga gets Chile's oil reserves
42 Nauru gets spain's oil reserves
43 Antigua and Barbuga gets Bahrain's oil reserves
44 Fiji gets Morocco's oil reserves
45 Kiribati gets Mauritania's oil reserves
46 Guinea-bissau gets Suriname's otl oil reserves
47 Liberia gets New Zealand's OTL oil reserves
48 The Bahamas gets Kyrgyzstan's otl oil reserves
49 Haiti gets Bangladesh's oil reserves
50 Vanuatu gets South Africa's otl oil reserves
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Do we assume that sulfur content stays relatively the same?
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Presume sulfur content is the same.
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I think you're trying to save the West in some form. And it won't work.

Dude, look at how much they guzzle oil as is even with blatantly hostile states and populations throughout the third world. Putting it all in US (or at least general western) countries might make things worse without an energy crisis to make people think things may not last forever. They'll keep digging in the ground for more cheap stuff.

Now, you can potentially get some interesting changes on the map, and I see you're trying to make South Africa and Rhodesia last longer. Which they will. But I still forsee those places falling eventually to their current forms sooner or later.

It's interesting but I'm not seeing huge changes overall.
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