Does oil extraction leave a cavity?

Are there not cavities in the earth’s crust that via hi tech drilling capability and gravity could serve as reservoirs for excess surface water brought about by periodic flooding?

was this question answered by somebody that works in the petroleum industry? So given that answer tell me how that applies to the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe? So was the Earth squeezing the sponge? Yes at least cavities in the Earth and these cavities and different places are under incredible pressure. The oil in the earth mantels exist In Pockets that are under incredible pressure the reason that they're under pressure is from the weight of our oceans and primarily gravity. What drilling companies do is they locate these veins of oil if you will and they tap into them and extract the oil out under pressure and vacuum . Chris think about it like this these oil cavities in the Earth's mantle let's just say that there quarts of oil in this court of oil is existing in the Earth's mantle and it's not always in rock it's under many different conditions in the mantle now to simplify the question what you're doing is you're basically drilling into the side of that quart of oil that quart of oil is buried with rocks is sediment with these items pressing down upon it but it can't escape its got nowhere to go it's a pocket so it's completely surrounded with all this heavy dense matter all the way around it putting pressure on it. so now what you're going to do is you're going to drill sure all of these layers of rock and sediment in tap into that quart of oil now once the oil has a way to escape it's going to. which is exactly what we saw with the Deepwater Horizon accident all of the weight of the ocean putting force on the mantles was squeezing that stuff out at alarming rates. Yes at least cavities in the Earth you can't take something away from something and not have there be something missing. stating that we're sucking it out of a sponge is hilarious. So what happens when you suck all of the water out of a sponge ? You end up with this little tiny dried up sponge. So did it have any effect on the sponge yes the size of the sponge shrunk dramatically. and yes this is having an effect on the earth and it's very simple to connect the dots like the sinkholes that are appearing randomly all over the place like the disappearing lakes in ocean water that's Vanishing. like the increase in earthquakes that are happening globally. See you can only do this for so long and Earth's gravity or pressure if you will is going to fill in all of these boys because gravity is what keeps the planet all compressed into a round ball just like water always finds its lowest point of equilibrium that's what's going on. But nobody in oil will tell about the no negative effects of drilling for it the long term use of it the problems known problems that presents that were already experiencing because on this planet if it makes you rich who cares. When money is your master morals are your nemesis. I'm shocked that that was actually a scientifically induced answer. There seems to be some discrepancy over where the fossil fuels come from as well. So I'm going to guess that all the creatures on the earth and all the dinosaurs all decided to have and Extinction Festival what in the Middle East and I'll gather there for end-of-life celebrations? The last time I checked human bone is made out of calcium and you can bury calcium in the earth is it's a mineral that exists in the Earth and it will take calcium forever. I wasn't aware of the fact that calcium gets converted into oil it's some point. The dinosaurs are a nice story though. When are we going to stop lying to ourselves and lying to others and believing some of these absolutely ridiculous fables and fictitious realities. It's some point we have to stop making it up as we go along. if you would like to make correlations between petroleum and coal and how they were formed it's easiest to do that by looking at humic acid and lignite coal I think there's a similarity taking place there is there both the decomposition organic materials such as dead plant matter like massive forests that were buried beneath the earth's mantels in a cataclysmic Collision of two entities are Earth and something else possibly another planet or a or a giant meteor. Look at the planet on Google Earth and look at all of its fault lines in the Ring of Fire and then think about a hard ball like a baseball hard ball in the way that the skin on the baseball is stretched over the inner windings and stitched when this Collision took place the land we live on a planet Earth was stretched over the outside of something else everything that was broken and turned under or caught between those two in the layers is where petroleum comes from. Mark my words though there will be an incredible price to pay for all of the oil that we have removed from the Earth's mantels it's not if something happens it's when. And we're beginning to see that now.

Gary,
I live in Slovenia and we can buy bittled water.
But at the same time we have clean water in pipes and our wells are protected by law as common good. We should defend it by all means.. hopefully we won’t have to.

In my opinion the "elegant" description of the above explanation is not quite convincing. It is not possible to trespass a "porous" material like a solid porous concrete with a "strou" what kind of strou could be able to do that?

Our direction is 2) fold
1. Immediately find ways to reduce the need for petroleum products.
Photo electric generation and others .
Reduce consumption with electrical transportation of small packages
2. Increase solid state and lithium battery power.

I was thinking the exact thing

We are removing the coolant from the earth but the big oil people don’t care about that as long as they make that dollar! I am a 56 year old grandmother and I have thought about this for years! What kind of fate are we dooming our children,grandchildren and their children to!!!

I absolutely agree. The powerful that are causing the catastrophe, have the same conscience as the ones that know that children are dying for hunger every 20 seconds without knowing that their trillions of dollars are not the consequence.

This has been disputed for many years, however when asked to prove that it does not effect the eco structure, scientists then say that only time will prove that question?