How Does Oil and Gas Formation Work?

Oil and gas are like buried treasure hidden deep inside the Earth.

Imagine you're playing with clay in a big kitchen. Over millions of years, tiny sea creatures and plants get squished between layers of mud and sand, it's like being squeezed in a giant hug. This pressure and heat turn them into crunchy cookies, which are actually oil and gas.

As more layers of clay and rock pile on top, the cookies get buried deeper and deeper. It’s like stacking pancakes one after another, the bottom ones get squished the most!

Sometimes, these crunchy cookies find a way to move upward through tiny cracks in the rocks, it's like when you push a toy car through a tunnel. Eventually, they might come out as oil or gas that we can use for cars and lights.

If there’s a place where the rock is soft enough to let them flow, it becomes an oil well or a gas well, just like how water flows from a tap when you open it!