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Is crude oil found in rocks?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

No

Oil is found around rocks, Oil is trapped between different layers of dirt. However its not a giant underground lake/cavern. Think of it as quicksand but when they extract the oil they just remove the water from the quick sand and leave the sand.

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