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Originally posted by Jaeger:
I wonder if the Fuhrer had any personal view on sending forth refineries or how he was going to extract usable fuel from the region.
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Simple, use some Triumph des Willens stuff and all problems are solved.
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Originally posted by Jaeger:
Does anybody know who made the machinery in Ploesti? Perhaps the Germans did?
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I don't know where the capital and drilling know-how came from, I never had thought of this, but at the time the two big oil nations would be the US and UK. Ploesti was the only significant field west of the Causcasus, and it's most likely that ownership (beside the Romanian government tranche) would be American or British, I can't know for sure at present but I can't see any reason for it to be German.
Aha! God bless the Internet!
Ploesti refineries:
Romano-Americana refinery: 1.25 million tones/year
Concordia-Vega refinery: 1.5 million tones/year
Standard-Petrol refinery and Unirea-Speranta refinery: 1.3 million tones/year
Astra Romana refinery: 2 million tones/year
Columbia-Aquila refinery: 0.3 million tones/year
At least the three first names point to American origin, this is flimsy but with time I may find more.