Energy minnow Bahrain just found 80 billion barrels of oil, as much as Russia's entire reserve

Reuters via Financial Post ^ | April 5, 2018 | Davide Barbuscia

[huldah1776]

ROTFL thinking of the laws about the size of signs (no billboards allowed) but they’ll ruin the landscape with solar fields. Do they have stinking windmills, too?

[Antoninus]

But...but...Peak Oil. Remember that?

[TnTnTn]

Technology happens....if oil is a fossil fuel there is a finite supply...fortunately we still have a lot left....now abiogenic oil??....hopefully that is the case...but could be ramblings of flat earther types....

[hoosierham]

There is a few quadrillion cubic feet of methane and other hydrocarbons in cold storage on Neptune and Uranus.

Those dinosaurs must have really got atound.

[marktwain]

Those dinosaurs must have really got atound.

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No geologist or petroleum engineer claims that dinosaurs were the source of oil, coal, or natural gas. That is a straw man argument. Oil, coal and natural gas are believed to have primarily come from deposits of dead plants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel

[hoosierham]

Hardy plants on the gas giants.

Coal yes. Oil ??

[marktwain]

Yes, oil.

What does the presence of hydrocarbons on the gas giants have to do with your argument?

Clearly, there are large quantities of hydrocarbons in the universe. The basic building blocks of hydrocarbons are everywhere.

How they came to be underground in the Earth, is another matter.

Abiotic oil is an old theory. It simply does not seem to hold up in practical application. There may be some truth to it, but biotic oil theory has been used very successfully to find and exploit underground hydrocarbons. Abiotic theory has not.

Here is a good explanation of the basic points of the controversy:

http://richardheinberg.com/richard-heinberg-on-abiotic-oil

The article is a bit old, and does not take fracking into account, but it covers a good bit of the controversy.