>>BP has proven abiotic oil
Can/would you please address this, Smokin’ Joe?
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.