Abstract: A system and method for converting feedstock material into crude oil, lighter fuels such as diesel fuel, and uncondensed vapors such as natural gas. The material to be converted is properly sized and heated prior to be provided to a reactor. The heated feedstock is metered into the reactor where it is vaporized at a uniform temperature in an oxygen free environment. The reactor breaks down the carbon chains of the feedstock into strands of molecules containing less than 24 atoms per molecule. Any vaporized gas exits the reactor and enters a two-stage fractional distillation column which recovers the converted fuel.