Oil is not thermally stable below around 11,000’ in most basins. In some cooler ones like the Gulf of Mexico and Nigeria, you can find it down to 20,000’ but it is a rarity. It breaks down into natural gas and eventually elemental carbon around 30,000’. There have been many wells drilled all over the world and all accumulations of oil have been found in basins. Oil and heat, say with vulcanism and plate collision zones, don’t mix. Gold was a moron out for publicity and grant money. Ask any serious geochemist.
I am ignorant. I’m just trying to navigate all of the misinformation out there. I can’t count on the MSM to actually tell the truth about anything, so everything becomes suspect to me.
So getting back to your knowledge that oil breaks down into carbon deeper than 30,000 feet.
Can you please answer my obvious question since I just referred to the deep oil wells.
The Russians claim they have 310 super deep oil wells that are producing. Are they lying about that? If so, where is the oil coming from that they are claiming is coming from those wells?
Is it a lie that Russia now produces more oil than Saudi Arabia?
If it is true, and if the Siberian oil finds are not super deep wells, then did the Russians just neglect this easy to get oil? Why did they wait until recently to tap these fields if they are not super deep wells?
Thanks you. I’m just trying to get to the truth here. There is constant misinformation whether from ignorant people like me, or from people who have old outdated information, or from people who refuse to advance in knowledge. I’m just trying to weed through the various sources of all above. Even brilliant petrochemical engineers with decades of experience can be late to the party when new truths come up against their decades of contrary experience, so I am just trying to find out why the Russians are lying about their claim of 310 deep wells and why the Russians are now producing so much oil.
Thank you.
By the way, you obviously know your stuff so I appreciate the education. Thank you.