Quote Originally Posted by pathetic sheep View Post
You may have dismissed the oil well to quickly. The see is open and flowing. navies and armies float around and people do stuff there. But no one resides in a place in the ocean. The oil well and its platform is attached to the bedrock. The platform has a crew inhabiting rooms on a permanent 24/7 basis. They extract resources and sell them to ships.
Of course the oil and gas are a huge reason why the conflict is happening, however an oil platform isn't a landmass so it can't be used to claim territory.