Considering oil forms under compression of trees and the like, doesn’t that mean there must have been a lot of life and vegetation there a long time ago? Why did all of that dissappear and only leave mostly barren wasteland?
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Almost all Oil and gas is formed from organic sediments deposited on seabed over million of years. This means that the areas that have oil was in all likelyhood at some point under water. Most of the oil fields on Arabic peninsula and Iran are very close to the sea [http://oges-files.s3.amazonaws.com/p/assets/2615cba7-d8fa-478d-b243-1be0f5d22620.jpg](http://oges-files.s3.amazonaws.com/p/assets/2615cba7-d8fa-478d-b243-1be0f5d22620.jpg)
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