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  • Formation of Crude Oil

Petroleum is formed under the earth’s surface by the decomposition of marine organisms, the remains of tiny organisms that lived in the sea, and to a lesser extent, those of land organisms that are carried down to the sea in rivers, and of plants that grow on the ocean bottom.

 

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