[DesertRhino]

Hawaii is a red herring. Hawaii is the tallest mountain on earth. It’s a 33,000 foot volcano of which about 13,000 stands above the water. It would be bizzare for oil and gas to have ever accumulated there from activites below the plates. Nobody would be surprised to not find oil and gas fields in the top 30% of Mount Everest.

[thackney]

If you were under the mistaken impressions that crude oil (and the associate micro-fossils) is somehow generated from beneath, why isn't it common in places that push up from beneath?

Why is it always found in places that accumulate sediment from above and often away from the edges of the tectonic plates?

Nobody would be surprised to not find oil and gas fields in the top 30% of Mount Everest.

If that is not a sedimentary basin from prehistoric times, I would agree.