[llevrok]

I always wonder - if oil was created once (and not from dead dinosaurs), couldn’t it still be creating itself? In short, a renewable resource?

[pierrem15]

A tremendous amount of calcium carbonate rock is pushed around underground. It is possible to convert calcium carbonate into hydrocarbons: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/ra/c3ra40264a.

The paper argues that with iron compounds the efficiency is comparable to Fischer-Tropf.

[Red Badger]

Old oil wells have been known to become productive again after years of being shut down..............

[EastTexasTraveler]

“I always wonder - if oil was created once (and not from dead dinosaurs), couldn’t it still be creating itself? In short, a renewable resource?”

I know that oil fields do replenish themselves. This has been known for a long time.

[Lockbox]

Old, abandoned oil wells (properly capped off) have been found to be refilling over the decades. So yes the earth creates more oil.

[Dead Corpse]

The whole planet is a huge hydro-carbon engine. Of course it’s renewable...

[crusty old prospector]

That process occurs slowly. Then, it has to migrate to a trap or it hits the surface.

[Robe]

It’s earth juice

[Doulos1]

The theory is called abiotic oil.
I believe it is true.
Too much oil to be dead dinosaurs.
https://www.petroleum.co.uk/abiotic-oil-formation