If I may step in for a moment, speaking as a now retired Earth Scientist who has been working in the oil and gas industry for 35 years.
The way we go about exploring for hydrocarbons is by building models. To justify investing tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in an exploration well that will be worthless if it fails, we need to present to management a comprehensive risk and cost/benefit analysis. We do this by splitting the problem in essential elements: is there an oil source rock? Is it mature to generate oil or gas? Is there a reservoir rock? Can the oil or gas migrate from the source to the reservoir? Is there a seal to prevent the hydrocarbons from escaping? Is there a structure that traps the fluids? Was that structure already there when the fluids migrated or was it formed later? And so on and so forth.
We try to answer all those questions, and others, by interrogating our models that we build from collecting, interpreting and mapping large amounts of geological and geophysical data (data that don’t come cheap in their own right). We can only assemble the data, interpret it and build it into coherent models if we, among other things, assign depositional histories to the rocks we model; understand their burial and possibly uplift histories; can tell for how long they have been buried, how deep, at what temperatures and at what pressures. We reconstruct the deformation history of the area under study to understand the sequence of events relevant to our exploration prospect - events that can make or break the prospect because of mismatch of structure vs. hydrocarbon generation and/or migration; deformation that may have caused faults and fractures that in some cases impair, in other cases help our traps.
None of this work could be undertaken without having a basic framework of time and space in which these events have happened. This framework is provided by the mainstream geological sciences (several hundreds of years of them) that give us the integrated history of the Earth over billions of years with a great amount of detail and often at remarkably fine resolution.
YEC brings absolutely nothing at all to the table to help build such models. It simply doesn’t provide a necessary framework in which to fit our data and arrive at an understanding of the local geological events in time and space.