Allied bombing of the oil campaign targets of World War II included attacks on Nazi Germany oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. Natural oil was available in Northwestern Germany at Nienhagen (55%—300,000 tons per year), Rietberg (20%—300,000), and Heide (300,000) and refineries were mainly at Hamburg and Hannover. Refineries in France, Holland, and Italy (54)—mainly coastal plants for ocean-shipped crude—were within Allied bombing range and generally unused by GermanyCover letter: "Plan": "Appendix A": _____ "Appendix B": _____ … "Appendix G": _____ "Supplement": _____ "Part 1": _____ … "Part 10": _____ (Italian refining ceased in August 1943). Even before the war, Germany was dependent on foreign sources for an adequate supply of oil. The annexations of Austria and the Sudetenland (and the breakup of Czechoslovakia); the "campaigns in Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France…and imports from the Soviet Union provided significant wartime petroleum imports to Nazi Germany. Firms that operated oil facilities included Deutsche Erdöl-Aktiengesellschaft, Brabag (e.g., Böhlen, Magdeburg/Rothensee, Zeitz), Fanto (Pardubice, Budapest), and I.G. Farbenindustrie (Blechhammer, Ludwigshafen/Oppau, Oświęcim).
+ This table is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Type Germany (Ruhr& Vienna areas) Germany (other) Foreign Bergiusplants Bottrop-Welheim Castrop-Rauxel Duisburg Gelsenkirchen (Nordstern) Gelsenkirchen (Scholven/Buer) Homberg Kamen Sterkrade/Holten Wanne-Eickel Blechhammer Essener Verein Leuna - most heavily defended oil target in Nazi Germany Ludwigshafen Lützkendorf-Mücheln Wesseling Poland (Oświęcim) Fischer-Tropschplants Dortmund Kamen-Dortmund Odertal Ruhland-Schwarzheide Lützkendorf-Mücheln Essener Verein France (Harnes) Refineries Austria (Korneuburg) Vienna (Floridsdorf) Vienna (Lobau) Vienna (Moosbierbaum) Vienna (Schwechat) Vienna (Vösendorf) Bremen Chemnitz Cottbus Dortmund Düsseldorf Emmerich Hamburg-Harburg Hanover Magdeburg Mannheim Mittelwerk (jet fuel) Monheim Nienhagen Regensburg (imports) Rositz Austria (Linz benzol plant) Czechoslovakia (Brüx, Bratislava, Dubová, Kralupy, Kolín, Pardubice) France (Balaruc) France (La Pallice Hungary (Almásfüzitő) Hungary (Budapest) Hungary (Szőny) Hungary (Pétfürdő)Poland (Czechowice) Poland (Drohobycz) Poland (Trzebinia) Romania (Brașov) Romania (Brazi) Romania (Bucharest) Romania (Câmpina) Romania (Ploiești) Oil fields Nienhagen Hungary (Nagykanizsa) Oilstoragedepots Austria: (Korneuburg) Bücken Bruges Dülmen Ebenhausen Erfurt Erbach or Ebrach Frankfurt am Main Freiham Hamburg Kassel Marienburg Munich Neuenheerse Roudnice nad Labem Winterhafen) Würzburg Underground: Ehmen Farge Hitzacker Loccum Nienburg Belgium (Antwerp) France (Dugny) France (Le Pontet) France (Le Pouzin) France (Lyon) France (Montbartier) France (Paris) France (Rouen) France (Sète) Italy (La Spezia) Italy (Porto Marghera) Romania (Constanța) Romania (Giurgiu) Yugoslavia (Belgrade) Yugoslavia (Pula)
References : Part 10 of the Plan for Completion of the Combined Bomber Offensive identifies plants at both .