What is Fuel Oil and Home Heating Oil?
Biogenic Theory Most geologists view crude oil, (fuel oil or home heating oil) like coal and natural gas, as the product of compression of ancient vegetation over geological timescales. North America is blessed with a supply of native oil. So are many other regions of the world, including the Middle East, Asia and even our Oceans. North America however only possesses about 3% of the total supply of fuel oil, home heating oil, petroleum on the planet. According to this theory, fuel oil was formed from the decayed remains of prehistoric marine animals and terrestrial plants. Over many centuries this organic matter, mixed with mud, was buried under thick sedimentary layers of material. The resulting high levels of heat and pressure caused the remains to metamorphose, first into a waxy material known as kerogen, and then into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons. These then moved through adjacent rock layers until they became trapped underground in porous rocks called reservoirs, forming an oil
