Posted on 06/25/2016 10:10:23 AM PDT by rktman
Not dinosaurs. Vast mats of phytoplankton deposited in shallow marine, anaerobic environments. And it’s quite obvious that there were phytoplankton in such quantities...because we find their fossilized remains in the formations where oil is encountered. Hence the moniker “fossil fuels.”
The envirowhackos want to make it illegal to even question globull warming.
They’re doing it in Portlandia. No contrary or opposing view point will be allowed in the public schools. K-12
Oil is also found in conjunction with salt. It makes as much sense to say oil comes from salt.
No, not really. But it does make sense to say that the salt and the oil, transformed from the remains of the phytoplankton which was its precursor, are both the by-products of the ancient shallow sea in which both were present.
“Sustainability” is a trigger word for me.
How about aliphatic precursors are a natural product of the earth’s core. Methane “ floats” up, under pressure and heat. Sort of the opposite of the Fischer Trop process. Salt traps the petroleum halting it’s upward process. Seems more likely to me than dinosaurs.
LOL. What is the E&P business?
Well said and formatted, Kudos.
Exploration and production. The reason I asked was that I don’t know of any commercial oil and gas prospects successfully generated using the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin. Not saying there haven’t ever been any, just that in my 35 years in the E & P business, I myself haven’t heard of any. However, I am familiar with thousands of successful oil and gas prospects that have been generated under the theory that oil and natural gas are formed from deposition and burial of organic matter in marine environments. All I’m saying is the people who find oil and gas for a living have a pretty good idea what works and what doesn’t. And the marine deposition and burial theory seems to be a pretty good working model. On the other hand, I’m just not familiar with anybody in the business who lends much credence to the abiogenic theory of petroleum origin. Once again...there may be a geologist here or there who subscribes to the theory, but I myself don’t know of any.
As you know, theory is just theory. I can come up with several. How’s this? Methane is a solid at deep sea pressures and temps. Methane ice gets subducted ...more pressure...no oxygen...heat....petroleum.
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