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Right: So you see my dilemma.

If "oil" (methane/light oils/heavy crude oils/heavy-tarry asphalts) were ALL coming from the pre-Cambrian/early plant deposits getting squished/baked together, then how could they found under the ocean floor in these "new ocean" floor areas?

The "renewal" of the ocean crust seems to preclude either from happening:

1. New ocean floor is coming up from the interior lifeless and barren and uncovered. It CAN'T have either: earth's surface plant/organic life, nor deposited ocean droppings (from fish and plankton and organic matter washed down from the shore rivers), nor covering sedimentary rock deposited over the organic matter. So "new ocean floor" can't have oil.

2. "Old" ocean floor flowing "into" a subduction region gets heated and destroyed as the rock itself is melted. (The Ring of Fire" around the Pacific is the circle of volcanoes that arise as this newly melted crustal rocks comes up from the subduction zone.) Any oil/methane in these rocks that is subducted is clearly also destroyed as a chemical. Supporting this conclusion is the fact that no "oil fields" are discovered "past" (further inland) subduction zones.

3. The rest of the "ocean floor" just hasn't been around long enough for its deposited organic matter to (1) build up in enough quantities, get covered by sedimentary (dead rock) matter to get enough heat and pressure to turn into what we find now as oil.

Second. Off of "stagnant" undersea plains, we KNOW absolutely that oil is found (North Sea, TX/LA/FL coasts, Venezuela, Malaysia, etc. So, in these undersea fields, we have a different problem. The TIME that the original organic matter got deposited in order to FORM the oil fields that we now find doesn't seem to add up: If somebody finds pockets of oil/gas under 10,000-15,000 feet of rock, then ALL of that rock HAS to have been deposited AFTER the surface plant life lived, and BEFORE the "ocean" covered up the plants/microbes. And there isn't enough time for that to have happened.

Third: Many inland oil fields are also too deep to be explained by surface plants and microbes. In the MidEast and deep TX and OK fields, the land is basically stagnant since the Appalachian mountains were formed and Africa broke away from North America. So ALL of the oil had to have been deposited ALREADY that many thousand feet underground BEFORE the mountains were raised up.

And not only had the (surface) plants and organic matter have to been alive long enough to be captured and buried, but the 10,000 feet of surface rock had to be deposited as well to create the mass.