How is the oil that we drill out of earth made?

Answer 1

Even the petroleum engineers and scientists are not completely sure, but the opinion tends less towards decomposition of plant remains, and more towards decomposition of animal remains, probably the remains of huge numbers of very tiny animals like plankton or diatoms.

The problem is that the oil is very mobile, and it moves, possibly huge distances, from where it was formed to where it is now found trapped under a cap of impermeable rock. So the environment in which it was formed is not there to be examined along with it.

Answer 2

By the right combination of temperature and pressure acting on buried animals and/or plants.

It *does not* necessarily take a long time to create oil.


Many people today, including scientists, have the idea that oil and natural gas must take a long time to form, even millions of years. Such is the strong mental bias that has been generated by the prevailing evolutionary mindset of the scientific community.

However, laboratory research has shown that petroleum hydrocarbons (oil and gas) can be made from natural materials in short time-spans. Such research is spurred on by the need to find a viable process by which man may be able to replenish his dwindling stocks of liquid hydrocarbons so vital to modern technology.
From Sewage to Oil

The 1 March 1989 edition of The Age newspaper (Melbourne, Australia) carried a report from Washington (USA) entitled ‘Researchers convert sewage into oil’. The report states that researchers from Batelle Laboratories in Richland, Washington State, use no fancy biotechnology or electronics, but the process they have developed takes raw, untreated sewage and converts it to usable oil. Their recipe works by concentrating the sludge and digesting it with alkali. As the mixture is heated under pressure, the hot alkali attacks the sewage, converting the complex organic material, particularly cellulose, into the long-chain hydrocarbons of crude oil.

However, the oil produced in their first experiments did not have the qualities needed for commercial fuel oil. So, the report says, in September 1987 Batelle joined forces with American Fuel and Power Corporation, a company specializing in blending and recycling oils. Together they have made the oil more ‘free-flowing’ using an additive adapted from one developed to cut down friction in engines. A fuel has now been produced with almost the same heating value as diesel fuel. The process from sewage to oil takes only a day or two!

http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1182/

Answer 3

It's a long process of the decomposition of old plants and animals