Okay - lets take it to the extreme - since no one is listening...

"The Transition Handbook" also written by another amazing Brit, Rob Hopkins declares that mankind has taken approximately 200 Gigabarrels of oil per decade (that is not including all the years between the decade that's just the addition of the ten year marks).  Hmmm....  I'm still trying to figure out what a Giga-barrel is... 
A ton, I imagine.

If you took a 500 pound person and with an unskilled plastic surgeon took the micro-biological version of 200 Gigacellulite cells from pockets all over that person's body, what would you get?  A person who's skin sags in unsightly ways.  A person who can no longer keep warm in some spots or cool in others.  A person who wants to sue the doctor.  (Yes, still trying to have a sense of humor)

So, let's use our little homemaker mind and try to figure this out.  The animators of "Titan A. E." already figured out the Teutonic plates, their rates of movement and what would happen and how, and how big each plate would be if the earth herself cracked.  Gruesome-to-say-the-least for those of us that love the Earth, but at least all the data has been compiled.

If your use a Timeline of crude oil removal, where and how much, then you essentially have a basic, reverse-engineering game plan on how put non-equivalent material back in, as well as where and in what order. 

However, this plan is VERY crude and simply a very simplistic plan.  Then you bring in your Geologist and Marine Geologists.  After all, the earth is very much like a walrus what happens on one side happens on the other side.  For every neap tide there is a high tide.  For every Spring tide there is a counter tide.  The following UK link provides a very easy to understand model ( Tides explained ) .

So now you have a game plan that is simplistic, but far more realistic.  At this point you bring in the plastic surgeon's.  You know the kind.  They suck out people's leg fat, while the person stands up so they don't get the sagging going on without fixing it.  They also fluff up the face and breast by putting that same fat back in.  Using the skill and talent of these people you refine the simplistic plan into a true work of art.  You might even bring in a blubber specialist (whales, walruses, seals, etc...).  All of these specialist refine the game plan so that the crust/ocean floor is slowly and evenly lifted up.

Hmmm..... What will happen? one might ask.  Well, you would get a series of earthquakes.  Hmmmm..... Is this what people want?  Nope.  But if you ask people would you like plan A - a Total crack of the earth and a boiling of the ocean, or plan B - a return to the natural, relatively minor earthquakes of the past?  Then I would imagine most people would say, "Wake the Ring of Fire back up - we'll go back to doing our civil drills and enjoy a natural healthy Earth versus a completely cracked one."

But then comes the really serious question?  Who's going to pay for it?  Yeah, right.  Well you can either get the Kyoto Accord and the Linden Money stupidity again, or you can force the Oil producers to pay for it (Yeah, I'm laughing too), or you can gather a ton of private, international investors to do it.  These are people that can't expect a return on their money for at least 5 generations.  Now, finding those people would be harder than dirt and my estimate is just a number to say, "they personally won't get their money back, but they could provide for their grandchildren."  This is best.  Rockefeller was a shrewed business man.  He understood the value of laying the groundwork for the future while stealing from the citizens of day.  Something most businessmen seem to be good at today.  Oops, now I'm sliding into being snide so let me back up...

Oil companies are sucking oil out of sand.  Personally, I'm glad they are finally scratching in the dirt on top of the crust.  But if I could personally get them to start flooding old cavities with compost from Louisiana, California Avocados, Italian Olives, and Middle Eastern Figs, or anything else fossil fuel scientist think might cook properly, then I would.  But I think they are pretty busy scratching in the dirt.  So let's not disturb them.  They are already highly disturbed freakouts anyway - considering they have governments fighting wars so they can get their hands on something for free.  Hmmm.....

I think individual investors are the way to go...