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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
Your thinking is good, but you are missing a puzzle piece or two. In the good old days they discovered that as they sucked out oil, the level dropped and they had to go deeper to get to the oil. They figured that, since oil floats on water, if they pumped water in the oil would float up to where they could reach it more easily. So, in some cases there is water where there used to be oil. No void.
There are lots of different ways to get to the oil nowadays.
I recall that as a child in So. Cal. off shore oil deposits would leak into the ocean. A day at the beach often ended by cleaning the tar off yourself. Ah, the good old days.
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About 1956 on Lake Erie's beaches, tarballs about 3 inches in diameter were floating all around. They would create an almost permanent stain on skin and swimming trunks. Those were the days. "The days of wine and tarballs"!