This is how a Reich ends, not necessarily with a bang but a shortage.

Japan's grab for oil ends badly.

War returns as Hitler's gamble in the East goes horribly wrong.

King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and John Philby alter the oil balance of the planet. 

Mr. Five Percent Draws a Red Line around Arabia, but will this new oil cartel last?

The sovereignty of oil has finally arrived. And it is going to be a very, brutal reign.

Winston Churchill’s famous leap into the "sea of troubles” of Persian Oil.

Turmoil in Persia and the start of British petroleum interests in the Gulf.  

Russia's Twilight Empire and the first of two revolutions that would reshape the geopolitical map.

The Texas oil boom opens with a six ton bang at a place called Spindletop.