I wouldn’t hang my on hat on this quite yet.
This article is actually a 2015 article that references a 2008 Nature article discussing what was found by researchers in 2003.
Yes, they found hydrocarbon compounds absent carbon 14, which is what you find in the decomposing sources.
But they did not find anything remotely resembling an oil field or gas plume. What they found amounted to some chemicals in the fluid spewing from hydrothermal vents in concentrations that “were too low to detect without a filter”.
So, while this is interesting, there is no indication in the article, or elsewhere since the time it was published, that any field we’re able to tap has this type of hydrocarbon.
Meaning everything we are actually able to use is the dead critter variety.
Meaning everything we are actually able to use is the dead critter variety.
Exactly -how many- dinosaurs do you think there were?