[Veritas_est]

"The Middle East has more than doubled its reserves in the past 20 years, despite half a century of intense exploitation and relatively few new discoveries. It would take a pretty big pile of dead dinosaurs and prehistoric plants to account for the estimated 660 billion barrels of oil in the region, notes Norman Hyne, a professor at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. "Off the wall theories often turn out to be right," he says."

Your observations, however astute, do not address this situation.

[Dog Gone]

I'm not aware that the Middle East has doubled its reserves in the past 20 years, so I can't really give an opinion. Even if it's true, it could be simply a recalculation of reserves using better reservoir analysis. If it's new oil seeping in from below, that would be detectable by a change in the characteristics of the oil, as at Eugene Island 330. I've heard none of that, although I'd certainly like to learn more.

I do know that no self-respecting geologist would attribute any oil to the decomposing remains of dinosaurs, who lived and died long after the oil-bearing rocks were deposited.