Background...
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In the 20th century there have been a number of occasions where oil has led
to major conflicts between countries; the Oil Crisis of 1956 and the Gulf
War of 1989 to name two. However these conflicts were to be overshadowed by
the events that have recently occurred. After many of the world's wars
having been resolved in the lead up to the 21st century, many had predicted
a lasting peace upon this planet. This was however to be an ethos that could
only exist in a Utopian society. The planet Earth was evidently not ready
for this development.

After fears that the oil fields in the North Sea were starting to reach
their end, it was decided by the G7 nations to undertake a vast worldwide
geological survey. Expected to take almost three years, it was started in
2011 and in just four months the probing satellites managed to find a stock
of the mineral in the Jammu and Kashmir region of northern India. The survey
revealed that there was oil here, but there were doubts regarding the
quantity of the substance. After much deliberation, the Russian government
decided to help the Indian extraction companies in retrieving the oil. India
had the workforce, but not the technological prowess to take on this task.
Russia was willing to heavily subsidise the work. In 2013, the 'Indo-Russo
Treaty of Natural Finds' was signed. Thought simply to have been agreement
regarding the techniques by which the oil was mined, it was soon discovered
that the treaty actually caused any oil found to be reverted to total
Russian control. India would receive 45% of all profits from the oil, Russia
would have the further 55% and all of the oil. Further to this, any oil
discovered in the next 70 years would automatically be given to the Russian
government. However, other nations were not worried by this agreement; they
believed that oil field in India would dry up within the next five years.

