When oil is pumped out of the earth, what takes its place?
437631
air...or dirt...or..hmm..how bout you go and find out
379648
crude oil is the oil as it is when it comes out of the grond.  Comes from decomposing organic matter.  such as dead dinosours.
404666
By the pull of earth's gravity
1008220
The earth isn't going to cave in because we extract the oil out of it.  Its not like the oil is just sitting in some big open cavity deep down in the ground.  It is in the tiny pore spaces in the rock, and the cracks and fissures for the most part.  It behaves similar to water in the ground, and people pump that out from their wells all the time without collapse
372008
It is called a wildcat well not a field. It is a well that is drilled in an area where there are currently no oil wells.
436001
Oil is not really from dinosaurs themselves, its from that period in time.  Its actually plant matter compressed over time underground with extreme pressure and heat causing it to turn into the oil we see.\n\nCheck out this site to learn more about oil and how it was created.\n\nhttp://edugreen.teri.res.in/explore/n_renew/oil.htm
1156512
In 20 years there will be only 3 places that you can get oil from; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Alaska, U.S.A (not yet dugged up).  Within a next 50 those will be used up aswell.
856700
The tectonic plates were already broken before oil was drilled, it has always been that way since the earth cooled. Oil drilling is not the reason earthquakes exist.
1000716
The oil is usually within a layer of porous material. Imagine a bucket full of marbles and water. You can get the water out of the bucket without disturbing the marbles much at all.
527053
well the oil is under pressure, so when we drill all we are doing is releasing the pressure. Then when the pressure is gone there is still some oil left. sometimes to get out the oil we have to pump water down to force the oil up.\nSo it is not like you are left with any empty space if that is what you are thinking.\n\nthere are no consequences that I am aware of.
276556
Another good clue is whether or not you are near a salt dome (i.e. cental and south Louisiana).  Oil is almost always found in the vicinity of these domes.
351596
There's oil under the water. I am not sure how oil is made, I assume it has to do with the fossils of animals - in this case mammals, fish, and plants.
1157312
Oil is one of the end results of a long, long process of decomposition, heat, pressure, and transformation of molecular structures.  Many people are unaware that there are multiple types of oil resulting form differences in all of the components of the process.\n\nAs a "renewable resource," you are barking up the wrong geologic age.  Once the oil available on Earth is gone - that is, the "petroleum" created through metamorphic processes in deep layers of the planet - human beings may berely live long enough for them to see more.  it takes many millions of years to create oil through purely natural processes.  And the many physical changes in the planet that cause it to begin with, including vast earthquakes, total transformation of the layers of the Earth's crust, extinction of life forms, and other events, suggest that when is more oil made in the distant future, humans might themselves be part of the matter eventually converted into petroleum.\n\nWell, no, that's hardly likely.  Decomposition would prevent that.\n\nBut, anyhow - no, oil is not a practical form of a renweable resource.  It is possible to make synthetic versions of petroleum, or to make alternative fuels that have some of the key features of petroleum, however.\n\nUltimately, humanity may discover that petroleum is much too valuable to just burn.  It is a fundamental ingredient of many kinds of medicines.  It plays a role in various types of chemistry and other applications that may not ever be replaced or reproduced artificially.\n\nAnd humans will never live long enough to get more once it is gone.
199749
oil is the result of decayed organic material (dead plants and animals).  there would have had to have been life, LOTS OF IT, on the moon at one time, some sort of atmosphere at one time to promote both life and decay, some catrosphic event or chain of events would have had to happen to remove all evidence of both because to date there is evidence of none of these.   so....probably not.  besides, oil on the moon wouldn't matter unless we colonized the moon.  it would be too expensive (and currently impossible) to get it, pack it and bring it back safely.  there is no space craft to date (or anything near) that would be big enough to bring it back.  \n\non the other hand, they have considered putting some sort of fuel repository on the moon, much like the international space center, so that once a space craft has expended the enormous amount of fuel necessary to achieve escape velocity to get into space, it could land on the moon, fuel up and go a LOT further with a lot less fuel. there is no gravity or wind resistance in space, so you point in a direction give your engines a little boost and you could theoretically go for ever in that direction assuming you don't hit or get hit by anything or fly into the gravitational pull of any other planets or stars.  interesting stuff huh?\n\nwww.m-w.com   merriam websters definition of fossil fuel, which oil is\n\nMain Entry: fossil fuel\nFunction: noun\n: a fuel (as coal, oil, or natural gas) that is formed in the earth from plant or animal remains\n- fos·sil-fueled  /-"fyü(-&)ld/ adjective
980107
YES it is all about oil. It will not change unless there is a revolution or Revelation. Our children will continue to DIE to support the "status quo" failed petroleum policy of GWB and Company.\n\nRead the White House energy policy signed by Dick Cheney. Not much about getting out of the Oil Economy here:\nhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/summaries.pdf
77980
Usually the geology of the rocks prevents the oil sepage.  oil is normally found in large reservoirs formed by permeable rocks deep underground.  They are capped by a layer of impervious rocks, this prevents the oil and any natural gas present from escaping.
1061635
Oil wells are typically much deeper than groundwater, so I would not expect most wells to fill with groundwater (and the original oil would float if they were in contact).\n\nIf the oil field was in direct contact with ocean water, the oil would have flowed out and been replaced with water already.\n\nWhat is likely to happen is that the ground will sink as the liquid is removed, just like most ground "subsides" when water is pumped out of it.