[mountn man]

Problem is, whether in pools or suspended in the pores of rock, oil still has volume. Billions of barrels of oil, still require trillions of barrels of volume of mass, to be crushed, pressurized and percolated.

With each multi billion barrel oil reserve, it would take multi trillion barrels of organic life to produce.

So how many hundreds of oil deposits have billions of barrels of oil, that originally came from a trillion barrels of organic mass?

And how many times would sudden life ending/changing events have had to happen to make JUST THESE possible?

What about the organic material that was lost? What are the possibilities that each deposit is made up of the majority of the organic material at the time? Wouldn't it be more plausible that the organic material now called oil, is just a small fraction of the organic material at the time of encapsulation? Meaning there was much greater amount of organic material to begin with, that never got changed, but simply decayed.

[PBinTX]

I’m not sure of the point you are trying to make. As a geologist, I’m just saying that what we observe is not unusual. How much organinc matter exists of the face of the earth? How much algae, how many microbes, how much plant, insect, and animal matter? These are among the building blocks of hydrocarbons. Imagine the volume of organic life that dies and is replaced each year then multiply that times a few billion years. The volume is incalcuably large.

You don’t need a “sudden life ending/changing event” to make this happen. Normal day-to-day processes make it happen. For example, organic matter washes into a river. The river deposits the organic and inorganic matter (sand, silt, and clay) in a submarine delta, and those organic-rich deposits pile up over the millenia. These layers of material are buried over time, and with heat and pressure, the organic material is converted to hydrocarbons. Over time these hydrocarbons seep until they are trapped by denser rock above them, and lo and behold you have a oil reservoir. No magic or mystery, just lots of time and natural processes.

Yes the volume of organic matter that is trapped and becomes oil is likely a tiny fraction of the organic matter produced, most of which decays and becomes CO2 and methane. You have to understand that it doesn’t happen all at once, it takes millions of years. If you only collected a gallon of organic matter a year, in a million years you’d have a million gallons. You have to get over the belief that any of this happens suddenly.