After reading some of the recent posts here and new scientific knowledge, I am starting to come around to the Russian theory of how oil came to be; in short decaying dinosaurs and bio matter - preposterous!
Russians and their like have long believed that oil comes from a process deep in the earth itself. See quotation below my post.
Logically if you think it all through it starts to make some sense. Why?
1.) Dinousaurs roamed and dominated the earth for like 60 million years when plant life was abundant to feed them and the earth pretty warm. Therefore oil should be very common and spread over wide areas and just not concentrated in relatively few places.
2.) Dinosaur and early fossils are found widely - yet oil isn't. Doesn't it make sense that oil would this be found where known concentrations of dinosaurs were?
3.) It has been somewhat a mystery why when they go back to old seemingly tapped out oil wells years later they find that the pumped oil seems to be replenishing itself. Obviously it is not coming from decayed dinousaurs and must be coming from somewhere else.
4.) Maybe the dinosaur theory comes from the old Sinclair Oil Company mascot of a dinosaur. Kids and people like dinasours and are captivated by them. So maybe it was just a marketing ploy?
The Russians may be on to something and maybe oil explorers should consider the below:
"The overwhelming preponderance of geological evidence compels the conclusion that crude oil and natural petroleum gas have no intrinsic connection with biological matter originating near the surface of the Earth. They are prim ordial materials which have been erupted from great depths."
Academician Professor Vladimir B. Porfir’yev, senior petroleum exploration geologist for the U.S.S.R., at the All-Union Conference on Petroleum and Petroleum Geology, Moscow, 1956."