I would think places like Hawaii, which are of volcanic origin, would naturally have no hydrocarbons because of how they were formed. Although someday it may be a fantastic mine for copper and gold, whereas the aboitic formations would likely be more stable than volcanic.
Any aboitic formation would probably take thousands if not millions of years to produce large quantities and would gradually seep into reservoir type areas where we find it today.
To add fuel to any aboitic theory; here we consider most methane to be of anaerobic organic origin, there are other planets with huge quantities and its highly unlikely those were formed by organic processes. Who knows those planets may be dripping with oil too.
No matter how it was formed, its mighty nice we found it.
Only if you ignore the cap rocks that prevent the migration of oil to the shallower reservoirs.
To add fuel to any aboitic theory; here we consider most methane to be of anaerobic organic origin
When there is not sufficient oxygen, methane is the lowest energy state for carbon and hydrogen to exist. After planet/moon cools down from formation, the lower energy state for those atoms will eventually be reached. If the hydrogen ratio is higher, ethane and the like will be the result. However, none of these have ever found the heavier, more complex hydrocarbons of Paraffins, Naphthenes, Aromatics and Asphaltics of crude oil. Those are biotic in origin.
By the way, that marketing was trying to tie it to the time period, not the formation.
http://www.sinclairoil.com/history/symbol_01.html
In 1930, Sinclair's advertising writers noted that Wellsville-refined lubricants—the best in the trade—derived from Pennsylvania grade crudes laid down more than 270 million years earlier. These oils were mellowing in the ground during the Mesozoic era when dinosaurs populated the earth. The obvious sales message was: the oldest crudes make the best oils. But how to dramatize this?
A series of advertisements in 104 newspapers and five national magazines feature a dozen of the strange dinosaurs, from hideous-fanged tyrannosaurus rex and three-horned triceratops, to the unaggressive, vegetarian apatosaurus (brontosaurus), a 40-ton lizard with neck and tail each 30 feet long. The campaign—confined entirely to Wellsville oils—was a great success. The curiosity value of it was tremendous.