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What replaces crude oile that has been taken out

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Dom Tuk | 11:56 Mon 10th Oct 2005 | Science
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For more than 50 years we have been taking out billions of tons of oil. What exactly is replacing the space created.
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Odd socks
12:18 Mon 10th Oct 2005
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It actually comes out of rocks which kind of act as a sponge. The oil is pumped out of the rock, the rock remains in place.
12:35 Mon 10th Oct 2005
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Sea water is sometimes pumped in.
12:49 Mon 10th Oct 2005
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elgroucho and CT are correct. The oil is found as tiny droplets in the tiny holes in porous rock. Water is pumped in at the bottom of the well and this causes the oil to float to the top.
19:16 Mon 10th Oct 2005
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Hi Eddie51,  does that mean that global warming leading to "sea level rise" is actually being counteracted to some extent by putting the sea water undergound and that when we run out of oil (SOON) we will stop putting water underground and then the sea levels will rise much faster??
06:55 Tue 11th Oct 2005
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