Posted on 11/06/2015 4:46:41 AM PST by expat_panama
Ever since M. King Hubbert in the 1950s convinced a lot of people with his "peak oil" theory that production would collapse and we'd eventually exhaust our crude supplies, the clock has been running. And running. And it will continue to run for some time, as technology and new discoveries show that there's still an ocean of oil under our feet.
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A BP official told the magazine that "energy resources are plentiful. Concerns over running out of oil and gas have disappeared."
Things are so good, in fact, that Engineering and Technology says "with the use of the innovative technologies, available fossil fuel resources could increase from the current 2.9 trillion barrels of oil equivalent to 4.8 trillion by 2050, which is almost twice as much as the projected global demand." That number could even reach 7.5 trillion barrels if technology and exploration techniques advance even faster.
This information backs up the idea that Earth is actually an oil-producing machine. We call energy sources such as crude oil and natural gas fossil fuels based on the assumption that they are the products of decaying organisms, maybe even dinosaurs themselves. But the label is a misnomer. Research from the last decade found that hydrocarbons are synthesized abiotically.
In other words, as Science magazine has reported...
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But for now, enjoy our cheap, abundant and efficient "fossil" fuels.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
God’s blessing to us continues in the form of the most natural of substances, oil and gas.
It ain’t called ‘Natural’ gas for nothing.
“And why, here on earth, are deposits not found in other than sedimentary structures, as well as containing microfossils from the surface?”
Though not as prevalent as in in sedimentary, Oil can indeed be found in non-sedimentary formations. Yemen has huge oil fields found in igneous(granite) not sedimentary rock. Check it out.
http://www.geoscience.co.uk/assets/file/Reservoirs%20in%20Fractured%20Basement%20Ver%2010_JCG.pdf
Methane and oil aren’t hydrocarbons!/sarc
recharging is relative if one thinks in geologic time.
Unless for some reason the original charge stopped, there can be a very slow recharge component there.
since we use it up far faster, we cannot wait for geologic time to recharge, so for intents and purposes, it can be considered not a recharge situation, which is what I think you mean.
That is fractured basement rock with a oil bearing sedimentary rock laying on top of it.
We’ve had this conversation before.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3196945/posts?page=13#13
Sorry, I should have included you in the link above.
The Yemen oil is sourced to sedimentary rock.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3196945/posts?page=13#13
Agree. The earth produces petroleum in its crust, just as its designer intended.
Calcium carbonate (chalk), iron oxide (rust), and di-hydrogen monoxide (water), under great pressure and heat, combine to form hydrocarbon chains, which, being lighter than water, make their way to the surface.
Methane is a 4 carbon chain, octane is 8 carbons long, diesel is 16. With the right conditions and catalyst you can plug and play any of the above into the other.
Methane IS oil.
“he good news for the world is there is no shortage, at least for a century or more. that gives us the time to gain the knowledge to leave it behind and use something else.”
Oil will last for many, many generations, just gets a bit more expensive to find and produce.
And natural gas, which can be made into synthetic oil, is much, much more abundant than is oil.
It will last for millenia.
And how does that theory work for the oil/bitumen fields with API gravity below 10?
Some oil fields contain oils that are heavier than water.
Yes, I know, but that is not what the blogger said about it. He said it is not within non-sedimentary rock.
Methane is a hydrocarbon. It is not oil.
For years, decades, I’ve said ‘the world is awash in oil’.
Life is good, Global Warming is being proven to be untrue, we have endless supplies of oil and other proven energy sources, and the Anti-American Left is continuing it’s losing streak with the American people.
Bloggers say lots of things.
The companies producing the oil, source it to sedimentary rock.
Ping!...............
They also have a new coach!.............
Just time to read a little, though I’ll get back to it. However, this concerns “fractured” igneous basement complexes where the hydrocarbons migrated to. I cannot conceive of a scenario in which hydrocarbons could originally have been emplaced in igneous structures without having been metamorphosed to a harder carbon molecular form.
This should read The Oceans are an oil producing machine.
Will that increase reservoir pressure? (unlikely, at least in the time it takes to do humans any good).
If a stratified reservoir which was produced too rapidly re-stratifies (the cone-ins level out), that might appear as if it has recharged but actually, there isn't any new oil to speak of, it is simply rearranged in respect to existing well bores.
the death of peak oil is the reason we have the global warming boogeyman
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