Natural Oil and Gas Seeps in California ( excellent info )

USGS ^

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Welcome to our web site about natural oil and gas seeps in the state of California. Seeps are like springs that ooze oil and gas instead of water. Tour our site to learn about: how oil and gas seeps form, where they occur, and how they affect the environment the relationship between oil seeps and underground oil fields the La Brea Tar Pits, a world-famous oil seep in downtown Los Angeles

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

This whole web page is great.

Maps of where the seeps are with pin points.

Native american uses for oil and asphaltum in sealing their boats and canoes as well as other tools.

Other various useful information, background information, and pictures.

[fso301]

Something like 1 million barrels of crude seep naturally into the Gulf of Mexico every year.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Link?

[allmost]

This link says 150,000 metric tons of natural seepage. From the Gulf of Mexico alone.
http://geology.com/news/2007/enormous-oil-seepage-in-the-gulf-of-mexico.shtml

[John Valentine]

At 7 barrels per metric ton, that’s a tad over 1,000,000 barrels.

[allmost]

The ocean being as vast as it is these are still just estimates of what occurs naturally.
Here's a few more links with estimates.

(California)"An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of crude oil is released naturally from the ocean bottom every day just a few miles offshore from this beach". "
http://oils.gpa.unep.org/facts/natural-sources.htm


"The amount of natural crude-oil seepage is currently estimated to be 600,000 metric tons per year, with a range of uncertainty of 200,000 to 2,000,000 metric tons per year."
Natural seepage of crude oil into the marine environment>/A>

[John Valentine]

Yep. And, it’s been going on like that for a loooooong, looooooong time.

[mefistofelerevised]

I was looking at a property near Ventura, CA and there was oil seeping out of the ground. It was really interesting, but not great for sinking a water well.

[fso301]

Link?

There's a ton of information about natural oil and gas seeps into the Worlds waters. Even along the California shorelines, most tar globs on the beach occured naturally.

Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year,

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000127082228.htm

Exxon Valdez has a capacity of 1.48 million barrels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez

Satellite imagery of natural oil seeps in Northern Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oilslick.html

[Waco]

Kali don’t need no stinkin oil, Kali don’t need no stinkin revenue. They’re too busy supporting Nev.and Ariz.

[Leisler]

I once asked a MIT PhD environmentalist if I dump my oil from my Suburban on the ground at a oil sipping pump, was I polluting.

He got all sputtery.

Oil. H2o and carbon. Liquid wood.

[CalvaryJohn]

I still remember back in the 70’s when Jacques Cousteau pulled a lump of tar from the middle of the Atlantic. He bemoaned the man made polluting of the entire ocean. What a buffoon.

[iontheball]

The whole issue of where our oil comes from is an intellectual challenge. Contrary to what we have been taught and what the so called experts claim, there are some who contend that crude originates from the earth’s core. This theory maintains that there is a carbon based component in the molten core that is forced outward and upward to the mantle by the earth’s rotation. It seaps upward through fissures in the earth’s outer shell, getting trapped in underground caverns. In some places, the caverns are relatively close to the earth’s surface, making the cost of drilling rather cheap. It is to these earth locations that “big oil” has exploited. It is also big oil that has for decades propagated the notion that we are running out of crude. What they don’t tell you is that they are running out of shallow/cheap sources of crude. By purpetuating the notion that we are running out of crude, they can keep the prices high. Several decades ago, Russia abandoned the notion that dead plant and animal life was the source of crude and they started deep well drilling, going to 10,000 feet and more and finding oil at that depth. This approach made Russia much less dependant on foreign sources. Ask yourself two questions: 1) Is it really possible to believe that there could have been enough dead plant and animal life in the history of this planet to produce the amount of oil that has been consumed througout the world up to this point in time? 2) How is it possible that dead plant and animal material exists at the 10,000 foot depth?

[allmost]

1) Is it really possible to believe that there could have been enough dead plant and animal life in the history of this planet to produce the amount of oil that has been consumed througout the world up to this point in time? 2) How is it possible that dead plant and animal material exists at the 10,000 foot depth?

Peak oil is a myth. It can be produced by plant and animal material but most of it isn't. Look at a place with no plants or animals.
Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth

[Steely Tom]

1) Is it really possible to believe that there could have been enough dead plant and animal life in the history of this planet to produce the amount of oil that has been consumed througout the world up to this point in time? 2) How is it possible that dead plant and animal material exists at the 10,000 foot depth?

The Cassini-Huygens probe revealed the existance of hydrocarbon oceans on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. They are probably mostly methane, in liquid form because of the low temperatures on Titan's surface.

3) If our oil was formed by the decay of dinosaurs and trees, were there dinosaurs and trees on Titan?

4) If there weren't dinosaurs and trees on Titan, how did the methane get there? Methane is a large fraction of terrestrial natural gas.

5) Why did Titan get non-dinosaur methane, but ours came from dead dinosaurs? And no other source?

Don't forget, Jupiter and Saturn are "gas giants." Guess what types of gasses make up most of their gaseous outer layers.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The theory offered by someone named Gold, I think...

[The Great RJ]

When I worked for a national elder housing development company, we had an option on a site near Santa Barbara that had exactly such an oil seepage.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Thanks for all the info you two.

[NormsRevenge]

I know. Let’s put a new tax in place to pay for clean-up.