Does oil make it self, or is it gone once it runs out.?

Question

i heard dead animals turn into oil over thousands of years. i need to comfirm it.

Answer 1

Well Oil is a renewable resource and will keep making itself. However the process takes a hefty 10,000 years. I don't think we can wait. Unfortunatley if we keep using oil at the rate we are we will run out for 10,000 years.

Answer 2

The most widely accepted theory about where oil comes from is that it is fossil plant material, buried deep in the earth’s crust transformed into oil by heat, pressure and time. However there are problems with this theory, the composition of oil in terms of its hydrogen to carbon ratio is not the same as plants - coal does not have this problem. There is a theory called the abiotic or abiogenic theory of oil formation which postulates that oil is formed by microbes living deep in the earth’s crust from naturally occurring hydrogen and carbon. The principal proponent of this theory was Thomas Gold, in a book, “The Deep Hot Biosphere”.

Answer 3

Oil doesn't "make itself", it is a naturally occurring process that requires the proper temperatures and pressures, along with the proper source material. Even then this process requires time, but not time on a human scale. Pretty much when it runs out it is gone. But hey! we always have nuclear power to fall back on. So study Economic Geology and start looking for uranium!

Answer 4

You could say that it's gone when it runs out, but still oil makes itself as you say. Oil, coal and gas are organic material like plants and trees, plankton etc, that gets under pressure in time when other erosion material piles up on top. This way the pressure becomes enormous as this organic material gets deeper and deeper in the bottom of the earth. The circumstances and micro-organisms on this depth make the material chemically convert to oil and gas. This process can take up to millions of years. So you could say that when it's finished, it's finished.

Answer 5

It's made underground through the process of time and organic sources, like fossils. It'll run out soon.