Can we make oil, without drilling it out of the earth?

Question: Can we make oil, without drilling it out of the earth?
- Keywords:
  drill,
  earth,
  ground,
  mine,
  oil
Asked by sammieblues to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 22 Mar 2011 in Categories: General.
- Luna Munoz answered on 22 Mar 2011:
  
  It seems like a possibility but I don’t know how!
- David Pyle answered on 22 Mar 2011:
  
  Yes, we can make oil by the Fischer-Tropsch process: if you heat carbon monoxide and hydrogen together under the right conditions, you can make a variety of liquid hydrocarbons (oil). This is an important industrial process.

Question: Can we make oil, without drilling it out of the earth?