My view is that for millions of years, our oil reserves have been lubricating the earths plates.
Petroleum does not exist at anywhere near tectonic depths. It cracks to methane and char long before those depths. 80-100 miles depth is the diamond stability zone. Russia's Kola peninsula, 1989, 7.6 mile deep hole. The rock at depth and pressure, 180 C, oozed back into the borehole.
there are NO oil reserves near the Himalayan mountain range
The Himalayas are limestone. Petroleum is trapped in sandstone. Do you know what a
millidarcy is?
When the Kola drill string was withdrawn for the last time workers heard souls cereaming at the bottom of the bore hole. That is the intellectual rigor to which you aspire. Why don't you look up the composition of ultrapressure lubricants? Hydrocarbon does not lubricate under those conditions; other chemistries are involved (e.g., lamellar solids like phthalocyanines from pressure condensation of phthalonitriles or FeCl2 from reaction of halogenated chlorocarbons at point of contact).
