The city of Houston was among the greatest beneficiaries of the boom , and the Houston area became Becoming home to the largest concentration of refineries and petrochemical plants in the world .

Operation Tidal Wave was an air attack Attack by bombers of the United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) based in Libya and Southern Italy on nine oil refineries around Ploiești , Romania on 1 August 1943 , during World War II .

American strategic bombing Attack raids Attack in June-July 1944 seriously damaged Damaging twenty-four synthetic oil plants and sixty-nine refineries , which brought Causation 98 % of all of Germany ’ s aviation fuel plants to halt Process_end and dropped Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale monthly synthetic oil production Manufacturing to 51,000 tons .