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Oil war

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Oil war

Oil war is a term used to describe a conflict about petroleum resources, or their transportation, consumption, or regulation. It may also refer generally to any conflict in a region that contains oil reserves or is geographically positioned in a location where an entity has or may wish to develop production or transportation infrastructure for petroleum products. It is also used to refer to any of a number of specific oil wars.

List of wars described as oil wars

  • Chaco War (1932-1935)
  • World War II (1939-1945)
  • Oil Campaign of World War II
  • Oil Campaign chronology of World War II
  • Oil Campaign targets of World War II
  • USA-Japan (1941-1945)
  • The Biafran War, also known as the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
  • The Saddam Hussein Wars
  • Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988)
  • Gulf War (1990-1991)
  • Gulf War oil spill
  • Kuwaiti oil fires
  • The Iraqi no-fly zones conflicts (1992-2003)
  • Iraq War (2003-2011)
  • Rationale for the Iraq War#Oil
  • Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004-)
  • 2012 South Sudan–Sudan border conflict (2012-)
  • 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014-)
  • 2014 military intervention against ISIS (2014-)
  • 2014 Core Coalition intervention in Syria (2014-)
  • 2015 Russian military intervention in Syria (2015-)

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