Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Let's retrace on an animated map a summary of the modern history of petroleum until the present day.
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Patreon: patreon.com/geohistory
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English translation & voiceover: Rahul Venkit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1X...
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French version (original): youtu.be/vo51V7kG6Xc
Russian version: youtu.be/-yWGLeSrcHw
Arabic version: youtu.be/CnouCD7qJ64
Spanish version: youtu.be/GsnryOFTNP8
Portuguese version (Brazil): youtu.be/nioJ4EgFPrM
Japanese version: youtu.be/YaeswTEodl8
German version: youtu.be/sHoLbqcKofg
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Music: Hasta la vista - Causmic (YouTube library)
Software used: Adobe After Effects
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Barrel price: https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crud...
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:31 Modern oil era
01:24 Petroleum refining
02:42 Oil discoveries
03:19 Nationalism
04:02 OPEC
04:52 The oil crises
06:03 Middle East instability
07:05 US intervention
08:14 Increase in consumption
09:25 New sources
10:36 Price wars
11:10 Pollution
11:54 OPEC+
12:28 The future?
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