I was watching a documentary about the US Army Airforce’s bombing of the Ploesti Oilfields in Romania, in WWII. These raids were very costly, as the oilfields were at the very limit of the range of the bombers, and were defended by crack Luftwaffe fighter groups. It appaers that Hitler’s war machine was almost entirely dependednt upon Romanian oil-I have no conception about the Axis consumption of oil, but I’m sure it was huge-Panzer tanks used a lot of diesel!
Anyway, Is Romania still exporting oil? Or is the Ploesti field mostly all used up?
Is there any oil exploration going on in Romania now?
Short answer, look here–
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ro.html
Long answer–they have oil, but they no longer export any.
All of it is used at home.
I’ll ask my co-worker, Aurellian (I call him Vlad), tomorrow. He was talking about their oil reserves last Thursday, but I wasn’t paying attention.
Aurellian talks a lot. 
Peace
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There’s drilling right now in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea.
The targets of the raids weren’t oil fields. They were the refineries in and around Ploesti. Which supplied about a third of Germany’s fuel oil and aviation gas needs.
In fact my friend (the impaler) was talking about the resistance doing dirt to the oil production in an attempt to keep it from the Germans.
Were the Romanian Resistance that big a deal in WW2? I don’t doubt it, giver their historical distaste for occupation (Vlad again).
I’ll talk to Aurellian, and pay more attention this time. He was a resistor, pre-Gorbachev. He’s still kinda afraid to return.
I think there’s some turmoil over said reserves right now.
Do people know that Vlad was (is) quite the hero to Romanians?
Ok, I asked Aurillian. He says they want to keep the oil for themselves, so they won’t be dependent on yhe same folks we are.
They have crude in some places, he says, that’s so sweet you can burn it as diesel right out of the ground.
Transylvania Tea, I think it’s called. (Ok, I made that up)