As you know oil is a hydrocarbon. Hydrogen and carbon are two of the most abundant elements on Earth.

Back in 1925 two German scientists Franz Fischer & Hans Tropsch invented a process to make gasoline from hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The process is known as the Fischer Tropsch process.

This is where it gets interesting. In 1931 Tropsch accepted a position in the laboratories for Universal Oil Products. see link below. At the very same time petroleum firms saw a possible competitive advantage in owning Universal Oil Products. Guess who was the main player in buying them out? Rockefeller's Standard oil.

This is where you now need to put yourself in Rockefellers shoes. He had a guy that could make gasoline effectively from water and carbon dioxide, there was no need for any expensive exploration and drilling. Where would he make it? As far away from the USA as possible, away from anyone who would give the game away.......The Middle East. In 1933 the company now known as Saudi Aramco was founded as the California Arabian Standard Oil Company.

There are no oil wells over there, just manufacturing plants where they make synthetic oil and pass it off as oil drilled from the ground. Go check on Google Earth and see if you can find any oil fields oil wells, there are none. The Middle East is geographically the furthest place from the USA, one of the least densely populated and they have some very unfriendly rules and punishments.

When you look at the old photographs of oil rigs they are literally within a few feet of each other, gotta be another hoax as they would all be drilling into the same pools of oil.

Now most oil rigs are supposedly out at sea. Go look for a documentary that shows how the oil is collected,stored and pumped to the mainland. All you will find are CGI videos. Any oil rigs at sea you may see are just for show.