Game changer alert!
I have heard of the Russian research on this topic and the results are worth noting. Russian researchers were actually able to duplicate the creation of oil in the laboratory using extremes of heat & pressure.
I asked a guy in church who is in the oil business and asked him, “If oil is basically dinosaur sh*t and old plant life, are there ever any bits & pieces that come up that actually show this? He couldn’t really answer the question.
There are plenty of leaf prints in coal. None in crude oil.
A 10 gal fish tank is 20"x12"x10"
Multiply HUNDREDS of BILLIONs of Barrels by 42 GALLONS, then figure the shear size THAT ONE reserve is.
Now theory is that dinosaurs and vegetation under heta PRESSUER and time turn into oil. PRESSURE compacts mass.
That means these massive oil reserves had to be much larger before the plant and animal mass was compressed.
Now when plants or animals die, they decompose into dust or compost. What caused all this plant and animal material to NOT decompose, but to be trapped underground in stassis, to be compressed and heated over time? How did what was on TOP of the earth, in a relatively short period of time, get transported 10,000 feet below the surface?
Now take all your figuring, and apply that to NUMEROUS oil reserves ALL OVER the world.
These current KNOWN reserves would be OVER a TRILLION BARRELS.
I’ll answer it. Because the earth is like a large refinery. It takes a lot of heat over a long period of time for the organic matter to be cooked until it converts into crude oil. It usually generated between depths of 7,000 and 11,000’ feet, depending on the geothermal gradient of the basin. Below that, most of the time it becomes natural gas.