eli5: what happens to the areas that contain water and oil when we pump it all to the surface, why are there not sinkholes everywhere?

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eli5: what happens to the areas that contain water and oil when we pump it all to the surface, why are there not sinkholes everywhere?

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The oil and water is trapped within rock, in the pore spaces between sand grains, or in the fractures and inter-crystalline structures in limes.

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