ISRAEL MAKES NEW DISCOVERY OFF ITS COAST

Natural Gas Europe ^ | December 18th, 2014 | Karen Ayat

[thackney]

In an environment without sufficient oxygen, Carbon and Hydrogen will eventually form Methane as it is the lowest energy state of those atoms. Ethane and the like will also be formed depending on the ratio of atoms that exist.

But the simple methane molecule is a far cry from the complex long-chain hydrocarbons (Alkanes, Naphthenes, Aromatics and Asphaltics) found in crude oil.

[AU72]

Sheldon on the “Big Bang Theory” says that Geology is not a real science.

That's because "Intro to Geology" or "Earth Sciences" is a perennial gut course.

[RinaseaofDs]

We’re finding this stuff below the bedrock, so there’s no way its dead dinosaurs.

Yet, the press still calls it a fossil fuel.

[exit82]

I'm beginning to believe that the earth creates gas and oil, and we're not burning old dinosaurs

The world uses 90 million barrels a DAY of oil.

Each barrel is 42 gallons.

There's no way that many dinosaurs could have died to create that much oil.

Besides, in the Gulf of Mexico, we are getting oil 18,000 feet down. That's over three miles!

God made oil out of hydrocarbons, it is a natural substance, that's why there is so much of it.

[thackney]

We’re finding this stuff below the bedrock

Could you provide an example of that?

so there’s no way its dead dinosaurs.

You should understand the dinosaur thing was just cartoon advertising for material that eventual formed oil was laid down during the time of dinosaurs.

We know today we can get oil out of algae. Trapped in falling sediment away from sources of oxygen, cooked under pressure and increased temperatures for dozens to hundreds of millions of year, it is released and trapped under cap rocks.

[RinaseaofDs]

“Conversion of biological material to petroleum and natural gas is a geological process.”

Why are we finding lots of oil beneath the bedrock? How would stuff die, float down, and then somehow permeate bedrock?

[thackney]

Besides, in the Gulf of Mexico, we are getting oil 18,000 feet down. That's over three miles!

And still in a sedimentary basin comprised of materials laid down from the surface.

Take 1 inch of compacted sediment every thousand years. Now multiple by 400 million years. That is over 6 miles deep.

Where do you think all the sediment that runs out of the Mississippi and other rivers ends up?

[FatherofFive]

There's no way that many dinosaurs could have died to create that much oil.

It is not just Dino. Algae. Plankton.

But I never heard a good explanation why oil wells that went dry, somehow 'refilled' after years.

[Psalm 73]

I appreciate your analysis and you have a far greater grasp of the subject than I do - I can understand how frustrating this can be for you - but I'm still not sold on organic sediment becoming petroleum.
We would probably agree on a thousand other topics, though!

[exit82]

Where does all the sediment come from to raise the level of the Earth six miles in all directions? C’mon.

[thackney]

It isn’t laid down in all directions. It is in basins in select areas. It is not an even distribution any different that mountains.

The Appalachian Mountains used to be at least as tall as the Rockies. Erosion over immense time wore them down. Material like that is carried by rivers into lakes and oceans. The weight of the sediment will push down upon the basement rock.

You have to think in geological time frames; times periods where continents move around the globe.

[MWestMom]

I’m going to go away from the geology discussion for a second and just say, the Lord takes care of His own.

[thackney]

A question then:

The drilling for oil has clearly shown it it layers, trapped beneath different impermeable rock layers that hold the oil. If these cap rock layers didn't exist, the oil would not be trapped there.

How do you think that oil moved above one cap layer to then reside beneath another cap layer, but is still trapped beneath the lower layers as well?

And these oil deposits contain microfossils. And oil found under the same surface area, often have greatly different qualities like sweet/sour, heavy light, etc.

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You might also consider to date, petroleum geologist following the "theories" of biotic oil production laid down in layers of sediment produce oil.

Aboitic theorist have produced cash from gullible investors and sometimes governments, but no commercial oil.

[onedoug]

I’ve often wondered how much more information on the crust of the Earth we’d have if so much oil data weren’t proprietary.

But that’s the way the industry operates, and I’m fine with that too.

[Jan_Sobieski]

More really bad news for Putin (and Russia)!

[thackney]

Russia Angling for Share In Israeli Natural Gas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3238650/posts

[onedoug]

Great post, btw. Good too to hear from one who’s taken one or more actual courses in geology.

Thanks a lot.

[Joe Boucher]

More headaches for Putin.
He envisioned bending Europe over for Russian gas to heat em.
Now them damn Jews are about to ruin everything.