Oil Campaign targets of World War II

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Allied bombing of the Oil Campaign targets of World War II included attacks on Nazi Germany oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. Natural oil was available in Northwestern Germany at Nienhagen[disambiguation needed][1] (55%—300,000 tons per year),[2] Rietberg (20%—300,000), and Heide (300,000) and refineries were mainly at Hamburg and Hannover. Refineries in France, Holland, and Italy (54)—mainly coastal plants for ocean-shipped crude—were within Allied bombing range and generally unused by Germany[3] (Italian refining ceased in August 1943).[4] Even before the war, Germany was dependent on foreign sources for an adequate supply of oil. The annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland (and the breakup of Czechoslovakia); the "campaigns in Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France…and imports from the Soviet Union provided significant wartime POL imports to Nazi Germany.[5] Firms that operated oil facilities included Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft, BRABAG (e.g., Böhlen, Magdeburg/Rothensee, Zeitz),[6] Fanto (Pardubice, Budapest),[3] and I.G. Farbenindustrie (Blechhammer, Ludwigshafen/Oppau,[6] Oświęcim).

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Type Germany (Ruhr
& Vienna areas) 		Germany (other) Foreign
Bergius
plants 		Bottrop-Welheim

Castrop-Rauxel
Duisburg
Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern)
Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer)
Homberg[disambiguation needed]
Kamen[clarification needed]
Sterkrade/Holten[7]
Wanne-Eickel

Blechhammer

Essener Verein[3]
Ludwigshafen
Lützendorf-Mücheln[2]
Wesseling

Poland (Oświęcim)
Fischer-
Tropsch
plants 		Dortmund[clarification needed]

Kamen-Dortmund
Odertal
Ruhland-Schwarzheide[5]

Lützendorf-Mücheln[2]

Essener Verein[3]

France (Harnes)
Refineries Austria (Korneuburg)

Vienna (Floridsdorf)
Vienna (Lobau)
Vienna (Moosbierbaum)
Vienna (Schwechat)
Vienna (Vösendorf)

Bremen

Chemnitz
Cottbus
Dortmund
Düsseldorf
Emmerich
Hamburg-Harburg[8]
Hanover
Magdeburg
Mannheim[9]
Mittelwerk (jet fuel)
Monheim[disambiguation needed]
Nienhagen[disambiguation needed]
Regensburg (imports)[2]
Rositz

Austria (Linz benzol plant)

Czechoslovakia (Brüx,
Bratislava, Dubová, Kralupy,
Kolín, Pardubice)
France (Balaruc)
France (La Pallice
Hungary (Almásfüzitő)
Hungary (Budapest)
Hungary (Szöny)
Poland (Czechowice)
Poland (Drohobycz)
Poland (Trzebina)
Romania (Braşov)
Romania (Brazi)
Romania (Bucharest)[3]
Romania (Câmpina)
Romania (Ploieşti)

Oil fields Nienhagen[disambiguation needed] Hungary (Nagykanizsa)[10]
Oil
storage
depots 		Vienna (Winterhafen) Bücken

Bruges
Dülmen
Ebenhausen
Erfurt
Erbach[disambiguation needed]/Ebrach
Frankfurt am Main
Freiham
Hamburg
Kassel
Korcheuberg[disambiguation needed] [sic]
Marienburg[disambiguation needed]
Munich
Neuenheerse
Roudnice nad Labem
Würzburg
Underground:
Ehmen[verification needed]
Farge[2]
Hitzacker[2]
Loccum[2]
Nienburg[2]

Belgium (Antwerp)

France (Dugny)
France (Le Pontet[disambiguation needed])
France (Le Pouzin)
France (Lyon)
France (Montbartier)
France (Paris)
France (Rouen)
France (Sète)
Italy (La Spezia)
Italy (Porto Marghera)
Romania (Constanţa)
Romania (Giurgiu)
Yugoslavia (Belgrade)
Yugoslavia (Pula)

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Map of oil facilities

Blechhammer North
Bratislava Apollo refinery
Magdeburg/Rothensee
Nov '44 Wanna-Eickel bombing photo

References

^Note 1 : Part 10 of the Plan for Completion of the Combined Bomber Offensive identifies plants at both "Lutzkendorf" and "Lutzkendorf-Mücheln" [sic].[3]
  1. ↑ "tbd" (pdf). http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0466-0490%20Item%207.pdf. Retrieved tbd.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Ludmer, Henry (c. March 28, 1946). "Oil in Germany" (pdf). No. 6, Vol. XLVII. University of Toledo. pp. 259–63. https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/3612/1/V47N06_259.pdf. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Script error
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  4. ↑ Western Axis Subcommittee (after August 1943). "Estimated Refinery Output in Axis Europe -- 1943" (pdf). Enemy Oil Committee. http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Tom%20Reels/Linked/B1870/B1870-0517-0541%20Item%208C.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Script error
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Schroeder, W. C. (August 1946). "Report On Investigations by Fuels and Lubricants Teams At The I.G. Farbenindustrie, A. G., Works, Ludwigshafen and Oppau". US Bureau of Mines, Office of Synthetic Liquid Fuels. http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/Bureau_of_Mines/info_circ/ic_7375/ic_7375.htm. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
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  9. ↑ "tbd". http://libraryautomation.com/nymas/usaaf7.html. Retrieved tbd.
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