Can human remains be turned into crude oil?

I have a potential sub-plot in a story that takes place in the not too distant future where most of the world's fossil fuels are exhausted or contaminated (war reasons more than environmental) and unusable.

Ignoring all renewable energy debates about the future, (because it's a different subplot reason not to have them) can the remains of humans be conceivably processed into crude oil for energy use?

I THINK it would be possible with the right equipment, but I also need it to be something reasonably possible within around fifty or so years...

EDIT: I should add that there is a lot of unusable land for farming any sort of bio-fuel in this imagined future, and there are some other reasons that play into utilizing humans.

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