Posted on 06/15/2010 9:37:36 PM PDT by CWW
Can/would you please address this, Smokin’ Joe?
Okay. the short version:
Poppycock.
In explanation:
The only prospects I have seen drilled on abiotic oil theory produced from the investor's pockets--and nowhere else.
BP hasn't released the geological intricacies of the prospect, but they have said the producing formation is of Paleogene age, which is British for the American Paleocene, Eocene, and Oligocene periods, roughly the period from when the Dinosaurs went extinct to about 23 million years ago on the Geologic Time Scale.
That is not abiotic, if we recall the little fish kill which likely accompanied the impact which wiped out the dinosaurs.
There should have been an abundance of dead thingys settling to the bottom of that crater with the water that rushed in, and there are the organics to provide the oil.
Keep in mind that the Mississippi drainage system and others have been filling that basin with anything and everything which floats, can be suspended, or bounces along the bottom, and there has been a huge volume of sediment as well--along with sea level changes during ice ages. So there are plenty of organics in the system to produce oil.
I see absolutely no evidence that the oil is abiotic.
Wow, but the problem is there haven’t been any 65 million years. The dynos were here in significant numbers until about 1000 years ago. This is proven by the written historical records of europe and asia. They have far too many descriptions of their dragons attacking men for there to have been a distant extinction, and if the Earth were more than 10,000 years old the close proximity of the moon would have caused tides that would have rolled 40,000 pound boulders across the surface of the Earth that would have obliterated all life, animal and vegetable.
And all that obliterated life is the goo that oil forms from...
Nukes tend to make really big holes.
That’s the opposite of what is needed here.
My, you ARE ready for $10.00 gasoline.
Joe, somebody out there screwed up. There have been a lot of wells drilled out there that no one screwed up, where there was no blowout, no spill, no rig burned and no one got killed.
The drilling mud is the first line of defence.
Displacing the drilling mud with seawater and ignoring all the signs that the well was flowing despite supposedly being plugged was the screwup, and had those warning signs been heeded and the appropriate action taken, the BOP might never have been needed.
It wasn't the equipment that failed nearly so much as someone making decisions.
No one has a free pass to take short cuts and f**k anything up, and eleven people paid for that screwup, whether it was theirs or not, with their lives.
BP will be paying for quite a while, as they should...but not like those guys.
Actually not. Thanks for the charm offensive.
>>Poppycock.
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>>I see absolutely no evidence that the oil is abiotic.
Thanks for clearing that up. ;-)
Think a little harder.
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*ping*
sobering.
thx thx.
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