Oil war
- 1953 Iranian coup d'état
- 1973 oil crisis
- 1990 oil price shock
- 2026 United States intervention in Venezuela
- Bolivia
- Chaco War
- Conflict in the Niger Delta
- Dutch East Indies
- Dutch East Indies campaign
- Events leading to the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Foreign involvement in the Venezuelan presidential crisis
- Gulf War
- Gulf War oil spill
- Heglig Crisis
- Invasion of Kuwait
- Iran–Iraq War
- Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
- Iraq
- Iraq War
- Iraqi no-fly zones
- Japan
- Kuwait
- Kuwaiti oil fires
- Nigerian Civil War
- Oil campaign chronology of World War II
- Oil campaign of World War II
- Oil campaign targets of World War II
- Oil pipeline
- Paraguay
- Petro-aggression
- Petrodollar recycling
- Petroleum
- Petroleum politics
- Petroleum production
- Petroleum reservoir
- Rationale for the Iraq War
- Resource curse
- Resource war
- Saddam Hussein
- Territorial disputes in the South China Sea
- War
- World War I
- World War II