On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, and the Pacific War broke out. Tactically, the Japanese sneak attack was successful, damaging the U.S. Pacific Fleet at a fraction of the cost, but strategically, the operation was foolish and a failure. The Japanese had already been dragged to the death of the Chinese battlefield, and provoked the United States, a "strong man", which eventually led to the defeat and surrender in 1945.
Why did the Japanese take the initiative to provoke the United States? A big part of the reason is oil. In 1940, when the Oil Reserves of the Japanese were about to be depleted, they set their sights on the large oil fields of the East Indies (i.e., Indonesia). The United States saw through the intentions of the Japanese Kou and imposed an oil embargo on the Japanese on August 1, 1941, and the United Kingdom and the Netherlands responded at the same time. The move dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese Kou, with about 2.9 million tons of oil import channels completely blocked every year.
Without oil, all the war machines of the Japanese Kou would be unable to operate. The Japanese admiral once said: "Without oil, we are like disabled people without weapons." Therefore, the Japanese took the risk of attacking the U.S. Pacific Fleet in a vain attempt to ensure the unimpeded flow of Japanese tankers to and from Sumatra and Borneo.
As we all know, the Japanese forces invaded the northeast region long ago, and after the "918" incident, they actually occupied the northeast region of China and began to plunder resources wildly. Northeast china is resource-intensive, and rich in oil, China's famous Daqing oil field is found in the northeast, so why does Japan not explore and exploit oil in the northeast? How far are they from the Daqing oil field?
What is less well known is that as early as 1928, the Japanese army sent the famous geologist Shindai Kunitaro to China to explore for oil. Recruiting 10 Russians as advisers and hiring several locals as guides, Kunitaro set off from Harbin and walked east along the Middle East Railway to explore the forested area of the upper Mudanjiang River, but to no avail. However, the Japanese thief was not dead, and once again sent an exploration team.
The Japanese Kou set up the "Mantetsu Survey Department" to explore for oil in northeast China, and Daqing, located in the middle of the Songnen Plain, was also an oil-seeking area for the Japanese Kou, and the Japanese pilots had overlooked the floating oil film floating on the surface of the meadow, and they informed the exploration team of this. However, they found nothing but some deposits of little mining value.
Some people believe that the reason why the Japanese did not find oil fields in northeast China was because their drilling technology was backward at that time, or the drilling depth was not enough, but this was not the reason. Japanese writer Daizo Kusanagi believes in the book "Shilu Mantetsu Investigation Department" that the drilling technology of "Mantetsu" can reach 1800 meters.
At that time, the "Mantetsu Investigation Department" had laid an oil well about 1,000 meters deep on the edge of China's Daqing Oilfield, and this oil well also produced oil, but it flowed out of viscous, high sulfur-containing heavy oil, and the flow was very small, so it was abandoned by the Japanese Kou. About thirty years later, the first well drilled by IronMan Wang Jinxi's 1205 drilling team in the Daqing oil field was only 1100 meters deep. Just this 100-meter difference made Rikou miss the "heavenly opportunity".
In addition, the Japanese Kou's prospecting ideas also went wrong, when the Japanese Kou blindly believed in the "marine oil theory", that is, a large number of plankton in the sea died, and their corpses were mixed with plants and silt to become sediments, which would produce oil and gas after decay, and 90% of the world's oil was in line with the "marine oil theory", such as the Middle East.
The theory of "oil generation in continental formations" put forward by Chinese geologists Pan Zhongxiang, Huang Jiqing and others was incomprehensible and acceptable by the Japanese Kou. Therefore, the Japanese did not expect that the Songliao Plain covered with dark black soil had the possibility of oil reserves, so they focused their main energy on the Zhanuoer region and the Fuxin Basin.
Is there oil in Fuxin? Of course there is, the famous Liaohe oil field. However, the high-liquid crude oil in the Liaohe oil field, buried at 6,000 meters underground, was unattainable by Japanese technology at that time. Therefore, later, when the Japanese heard that the Liaohe oil field was discovered, they sighed: "At that time, even if you stood in the middle of the oil field, you could not find oil." ”
The Japanese Kou found nothing in the northeast for decades, and without solid and reliable theoretical support, they finally could not persist. Eventually, most of his equipment and technicians were sent to the "south", namely Sumatra and other places. This is China's luck, and it is also the world's luck.
Daqing Oilfield is extremely rich in oil reserves, is one of the world's top ten oilfields, belongs to the extra-large sandstone oilfield. As of the first half of 2019, Daqing Oilfield has produced a total of 2.39 billion tons of crude oil in the past 60 years, accounting for about 40% of China's onshore crude oil production in the same period!
If the Japanese had discovered the Daqing oil field that year, they would have received a steady supply of oil, and they might not have chosen to go south, but would have gone north to attack the Soviet Union with their ally Nazi Germany. At that time, the end of "World War II" may also be rewritten. It is not that the Japanese and Germany will definitely win, but World War II will be more difficult.