Why is there so much Oil in the Middle East?

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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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Just a small correction- oil and gas were created by marine plants and animals, not land based ones. Coal it’s what was formed by dead land-based vegetation.

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