Where oil comes from 13 Articles

by Ian Loft

Oil transformed the world and propelled humanity into the age of engines and high technology of composite materials, plastics, medicines and a multitude of catalectic agents used to energise manufacturing processes in almo...read more

by Will Kester

"Fossil fuel" is a bit misleading, as is fossil water reservoirs, which means it is an accumulation of time, and non-replenishing, not formed from fossils. As I am asked questions about oil formations, many still think it...read more

by Steve Lussing

The jury is still out for most readers on the true natural origins of oil in our own planet's crust but there is supporting evidence that oil is continuing to be produced through the digestion of portions of the ferrite su...read more

by Ann Marie Dwyer

The term fossil fuel is a misnomer. In fact, oil does not come from the fossils we know today at all. There are no calcified dinosaur bones in the recipe for oil. Beginning 400 million years ago, single-celled plants ...read more

by Nedjoua Boudemagh

Petroleum exploration is notoriously risky. Scarce resources are allocated to drilling opportunities with no guarantee that significant quantities of oil will be found. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the Phillips Petrol...read more

by Vertner Vergon

THE SCIENTIFIC PROJECT A short story There she was sailing on a calm beautiful Pacific Ocean, her graceful three hundred and fifty foot snow white hull contrasting with the blue of the ocean and sky. She was k...read more

by Richard Serra

Over the course of millions of years, oil was able to form as a result of the breakdown of all growth, animal life and any other living organisms no matter how large or small. The oil comes as a result of this breakdown, ...read more

by The Hitchhiker

Strangely enough, nobody is quite sure, but there are two prevailing scientific theories: The first, the Biogenic theory, which I was taught at school is that millions of years ago the earth was a lot warmer and wetter,...read more

by Raleigh Stout

All deposits of coal, petroleum (crude oil), and natural gas come from from the partially decomposed remains of ancient organisms included within sedimentary rocks. This is why they are called "fossil fuels." Petroleum...read more

by Kenneth Schortgen Jr

As with the theory of Relativity being the standard scientific belief UNTIL new information and eveidence started coming to light to denote possible refutations to its complete validity, so does new evidence coming from of...read more

by Lacy Ways

Oil is a mixture of naturally occurring organic compounds that come from beneath the earth's surface containing primarily hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. It is usually called "crude oil" until it is taken out of the ground, ...read more

by Anna Ortlieb

Scientists and geologists are still not agreeing as to where oil derives from. Some scientists claims that oil comes from a life form of one-celled entities, known as diatoms. They are extremely tiny creatures that float i...read more

by William Hamilton

There are two prevailing theories about the origins of oil in the ground. The first is the one you are probably most familiar with, it says that the organic elements of ancient creatures slowly dissolved over time. The tr...read more