Was Hitler being a fantasist when he dreamed of capturing Soviet oil fields?

If the Army Group A moved fast enough during the early stages of Plan Blue there was some hope of capturing the oil facilities relatively intact.  In any event, the Germans got hang up around Rostov-on-Don while they waited for the Sixth Army which was having trouble clearing the Don Bend.  Meanwhile, once it became clear that the Germans were after the oil fields, Stalin summoned the Minister in charge of oil production and told him that he will have him shot if the Germans captured the oil installations at Maykop and Grozny in working order.

The man carried out the order perfectly.  Even the Germans were impressed by the amount of destruction they found once they reached Maykop.  After the war it took Soviets several years to restore the oil production to pre-war levels.  In the months that they occupied the area the Germans only managed to produce about 40 to 60 tons of crude oil per day.  There was no reason not to expect similar amount of destruction if the Germans reached Grozny.

The oil that comes from the North Caucasus fields is not the same as the oil that comes from the Ploesti fields in Romania, Germany's main source of fuel.  With no working refineries nearby they had to ship the oil from Maykop to Romania to process it and then ship the fuel back.   But the Romanian refineries couldn't process it without extensive modifications that would take them off line for an extended period, further depriving Germans of fuel, so in the end capturing the oil fields did Germans absolutely no good.

He was being unrealistic. The size of the USSR on a map was proof. I'm not even sure if the Americans joined the Germans, if they'd have defeated the Soviets.

Most historians agree, even if the Germans captured the Caucuses oil fields in tact, it was not logistically feasible to transport oil to Germany where the war machine was being manufactured.  

They were initially successful and delivered oil production engineers and equipment, together with specially assigned troops and intelligence units.

No if he was he would have captured them in 1941

Warsaw to the Urals was only 3000 Miles and the USSR was not ready for war and Germany could have taken the Oil Fields in about a week

but Lance Cpl Hitler wanted to destroy the City named after Stalin then abandoned Moscow then lost 75% of his army and then decided to try for the Urals and failed 

Hitler should have had 2 Plans in 1939 Thke the North African Oil Fields or take the Russian Oil Fields

but the Idiot Ran out of Fuel 27 december 1944 wher Iran was Supplying 44 Gallon Drums of Fuel x 44,000  a Month to the British from 1942

Once France was liberated standard Oil could not supply the Nazis enough Fuel to continue the war

as For Oil drilling Engineers, Standard would have supplied them and all the equipment needed to Open the Oil wells

He was "coked out" by his personal physician.

His plan was a never ending supply of oil to fuel his 1,000 year reicht!

Same as Japan who needed oil for their world domination!