List the conditions nessecary for the formation of crude oil?

Answer 1

Biomass + Heat + Pressure + Time = Crude Oil.

Answer 2

Formation Of Crude Oil

Answer 3

It does not necessarily take a lot of time to create oil - contrary to popular opinion.

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!

The researchers are now building a pilot plant. As the report states, potential economic benefits of this new technology are tremendous, since the process produces more energy than is consumed during normal sewage disposal, and the surplus energy products can be sold at a profit. Bonuses include an 80 percent reduction in waste volumes, and the eradication of poisonous pollutants such as insecticides, herbicides and toxic metals that normally end up in sewage.
http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1182/

Answer 4

Sediments rich in marine life + time + chemical reaction = crude oil and natural gas.

Answer 5

--source rock
--migration path
--trap and seal
--sufficient temperature

Answer 6

1st poster is right, but the biomass has to be the right type which is rich in hydrogen compared to carbon most biomass of this type is derived from algae, pollen, bacteria, etc. not woody type material.