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• asah 4y ago
  correction? IIUC from that link, America produced as much oil in a day as Japan in a year. --- Japan produced about 2.7 million barrels of oil domestically. The domestic wells were located at Akita, Niigata and Nutsu. This was about 0.1 percent of world production 1941). This was approximately comparable to a single day of American oil production.
  • doodlebugging 4y ago
    For additional context, every day after completion of the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines (1942-1944) to refineries in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as much as 500,000 barrels of oil was pumped out of Texas to the refineries. That is just oil that was not pumped downstream to be refined in a Texas refinery every day.
• cheaprentalyeti 4y ago
  I think you're misreading that essay. Those three domestic wells were "... about 0.1 percent of world production 1941). This was approximately comparable to a single day of American oil production."