A very, very, very, small amount of oil might be the result of some unfortunate dinosaur but the vast majority of petroleum was made from small marine beasties and probably formed millions of years before the Mesozoic era when the dinosaurs were thumping around. A so-called fossil fuel, petroleum is believed by most scientists to be the transformed remains of long dead organisms. The majority of petroleum is thought to come from the fossils of plants and One of these seemingly undying myths is the idea that oil comes from dinosaurs. This is an interesting idea that I believe stems from a pop culture phenomenon nearly 100 years old. Most people have a basic understanding that oil comes from dead plants/animals/organic matter. So, although it does not come from dead dinosaurs, the oil we use today is made from creatures that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs. Oil is a kind of fuel called a ‘ fossil fuel ‘, which means that it has been made from animals and plants that lived millions of years ago.
9 Nov 2019 They asked the attorneys what makes a fossil, which is made up of organic material, different from oil, say. “Oil isn't from dinosaurs, it's from a 28 Jun 2017 (or possibly ever, as the processes that created them may no longer work the same way). Oil: What does it feel like to work on an oil rig?
5 Apr 2019 European oil companies have started to address what they worry may one contemplating a future in which oil has gone the way of the dinosaurs made a number of investments including a Brazilian gas-fired power plant In 1933, the Sinclair Oil Corporation sponsored a dinosaur exhibit at the World's Fair in Chicago on the premise that the world's oil reserves were formed during the Mesozoic Era, when the dinosaurs lived. The exhibit was so popular that Sinclair promptly adopted a big, green brontosaurus (today we'd call it an apatosaurus) as its official mascot. Even as late as 1964, when geologists and paleontologists were starting to know better, Sinclair repeated this trick at the much bigger New York Oil formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago, even before the dinosaurs. The tiny organisms fell to the bottom of the sea. Bacterial decomposition of the plants and animals removed most of the oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur from the matter, leaving behind a sludge made up mainly of carbon and hydrogen. Oil, gas, and coal do not come from dinosaurs but they do come from the prehistoric times. Oil and gas are made from organisms found in ancient oceans. As tiny microorganisms such as plants, bacteria, algae, and plankton died they literally covered the ocean floor. Contrary to wide belief that dinosaurs were centrally involved, oil is thought to have derived mainly from single-celled plankton that flourished tens to hundreds of millions of years ago in nutrient-rich environments, such as lakes and the shallow seas above continental shelves. Sinclair uses dinosaurs to symbolize the vast age of the crude oils which are refined into Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil and Sinclair Pennsylvania Motor Oil (by and large, the oldest crudes make the finest lubricants).
Crude oil was made over millions of years from tiny plants and animals, called plankton. The plankton on the left would form oil in about 150 million years time if the sea bed is not disturbed. The plankton that lived in the Jurassic period made our crude oil. This was the time of the dinosaurs. It was about 180,000,000 years ago. The myth that oil is made from the remains of dead dinosaurs has been floating around for many years (You can blame Sinclair Oil for that). Sinclair Oil is the company that used a bright green brontosaurus as its logo, gave away inflatable dinosaurs to kids, put talking dinosaurs in its TV ads and even called its premium gas “Dino Supreme.” There is no doubt that some dinosaurs probably became the source of some oil -- but actually very little of it. One of the reasons is simply this: when a dinosaur died, as land dwelling animal, it was exposed to an oxygen rich environment which would lead to rapid decay and prevent the processes necessary to convert something to oil from taking place. What if there were no dinosaurs what made the oil? Technically, petroleum is made mostly from algae and somewhat from marine animals that died in anoxic conditions caused by algal blooms hundreds As it turns into oil, it slowly seeps out of the source rock. The oil migrates until it is trapped in a reservoir rock layer (usually sandstone) that has an impenetrable seal layer (usually shale) above it. Whether this constitutes "dinosaurs" depends on your definition.
15 May 2017 A nearly intact dinosaur fossil of a nodosaur has gone on display after being pulled from an oil sands mine in Alberta. It also made Lambton oilmen early experts who played a key role in opening oil fields around the globe. By. 1874 Lambton County had a skilled workforce but an