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
 * The Biafran War, also known as the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
 * Oil War, a 1973 board game by Simulation Publications
 * War in Afghanistan (1978–present)
 * Soviet war in Afghanistan
 * Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–1996)
 * Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001)
 * War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
 * 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
 * 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-)