No, you can mark me down who understands oil and geology.
I’m not claiming that an oil cannot be produced by an aboitic means. I am claiming that 99.999% or more of the oil we use is not produced that way.
I understand that our oil we use in the petroleum industry contains unique quantities and qualities, including microfossils, such that individual oil samples can be traced to their field of origin. Each one is different.
Given that over 99% of all organic matter rots or is eaten, and not fossilized, or buried, or pressurized, we have already used, and mined, more oil than could have been created merely by organic means.
I’m a, Noah’s flood produced all of the oil, believer.
‘Twas pulling your leg
No a geologist here, but in the oil business (mostly down stream and gathering) and do have a geo-physicist in the family.
Since non-sedimentary layers are mostly impervious; basalt, granite, marble, etc. and sedimentary are porous; would not oil vapors coming up from the core settle in the pervious layers? All sedimentary layers formed since life on earth started would have micro fossils.
Could the oil simply be picking up the micro fossils from the sedimentary layers it resides in?
I think everyone is missing the main jist of the article - engineering technology is advancing and allowing us to get to the oil that is (and has been) there. Of course the price needs to be right!