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Earth Is An Oil-Producing Machine — We're Not Running Out
Investors Business Daily ^ | 11/04/2015 | KERRY JACKSON

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drillbabydrill; economy; energy; epa; globalwarminghoax; investing; methane; oil; opec; palinwasright; petroleum; popefrancis; romancatholicism; thomasgold
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To: expat_panama

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.


81 posted on 11/06/2015 6:41:52 AM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: onedoug

“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


82 posted on 11/06/2015 6:49:18 AM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Methane and oil aren’t hydrocarbons!/sarc


83 posted on 11/06/2015 6:52:05 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

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.


84 posted on 11/06/2015 6:52:14 AM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: bestintxas

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


85 posted on 11/06/2015 6:52:31 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: onedoug

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


86 posted on 11/06/2015 6:56:03 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: expat_panama

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.


87 posted on 11/06/2015 6:56:10 AM PST by TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed (Yahuah Yahusha)
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To: crusty old prospector

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.


88 posted on 11/06/2015 6:56:54 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Irishguy

“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.


89 posted on 11/06/2015 6:57:34 AM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

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.


90 posted on 11/06/2015 6:59:50 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

Yes, I know, but that is not what the blogger said about it. He said it is not within non-sedimentary rock.


91 posted on 11/06/2015 7:00:18 AM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: American in Israel

Methane is a hydrocarbon. It is not oil.


92 posted on 11/06/2015 7:00:20 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: expat_panama

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.


93 posted on 11/06/2015 7:01:34 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: bestintxas

Bloggers say lots of things.

The companies producing the oil, source it to sedimentary rock.


94 posted on 11/06/2015 7:02:36 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: expat_panama; thackney

Ping!...............


95 posted on 11/06/2015 7:03:54 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Darksheare
Titan doesn’t only have methane.

They also have a new coach!.............

96 posted on 11/06/2015 7:04:50 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: bestintxas

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.


97 posted on 11/06/2015 7:07:54 AM PST by onedoug
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To: expat_panama

This should read The Oceans are an oil producing machine.


98 posted on 11/06/2015 7:09:13 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: bestintxas
I get your point. If the source rock in the reservoir is still producing oil, I guess you could call that "recharging" (or maybe 'still charging'), but for practical purposes it won't cause changes in oil content significant enough to extend production.

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.

99 posted on 11/06/2015 7:10:31 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cheerio

the death of peak oil is the reason we have the global warming boogeyman


100 posted on 11/06/2015 7:13:16 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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