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Originally Posted by Two Bills
When oil is pumped out, it is under pressure.
When pressure drops, water is sucked into the void to take up the space left by extracted oil.
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Right. But the water doesn't come from god's holy drool. Do you think the sea level is NOT affected by all that water now filling those pockets where there used to be oil? And - that's just the oil wells in the ocean. The ones on land aren't magically turning into ponds.