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Posted on 01/18/2026 6:17:00 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The U.S. Geological Survey said a new assessment shows the Permian Basin in Texas contains an estimated 1.6 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and 28.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Woodford and Barnett shale formations. The findings highlight major untapped energy potential deep beneath West Texas and southeastern New Mexico.
According to the USGS, the two formations could also yield about 813 million barrels of natural gas liquids. At current consumption levels, the oil alone would supply the United States for roughly 10 weeks, while the natural gas could meet national demand for about 10 months.
The Woodford and Barnett shales lie far deeper than many other Permian formations, in some areas as deep as 20,000 feet below the surface. While these depths once made development difficult, advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have made production increasingly viable.
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Best part? None for California…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Time for the NM governor to re-double her efforts to decarbonize the state’s economy to the detriment of the state.
Good
I hope most of it is in America. The New Mexico part will force us to deal with a foreign country run by communists. NOT/s/!
Inorganic oil is real and never ending.
CH4 + ½ O2 → 2 H2 + CO
(2n+1) H2 + nCO → CnH(2n+2) + n H2O
Within the mantle, carbon may exist as hydrocarbons—chiefly methane—and as elemental carbon, carbon dioxide, and carbonates. The abiotic hypothesis posits that the full suite of hydrocarbons found in petroleum can either be generated in the mantle by abiogenic processes, or by biological processing of those abiogenic hydrocarbons, and that the source-hydrocarbons of abiogenic origin can migrate out of the mantle into the crust until they escape to the surface or are trapped by impermeable strata, forming petroleum reservoirs.
Abiogenic hypotheses generally reject the supposition that certain molecules found within petroleum, known as biomarkers, are indicative of the biological origin of petroleum. They contend that these molecules mostly come from microbes feeding on petroleum in its upward migration through the crust, that some of them are found in meteorites, which have presumably never contacted living material, and that some can be generated abiogenically by plausible reactions in petroleum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
simple chemistry HS easy
Serpentinite synthesis
A chemical basis for the abiotic petroleum process is the serpentinization of peridotite, beginning with methanogenesis via hydrolysis of olivine into serpentine in the presence of carbon dioxide. Olivine, composed of Forsterite and Fayalite metamorphoses into serpentine, magnetite and silica by the following reactions, with silica from fayalite decomposition (reaction 1a) feeding into the forsterite reaction (1b).
Reaction 1a:
Fayalite + water → magnetite + aqueous silica + hydrogen
3 Fe2SiO4 + 2 H2O → 2 Fe3O4 + 3 SiO2 + 2 H2
Reaction 1b:
Forsterite + aqueous silica → serpentinite
3 Mg2SiO4 + SiO2 + 4 H2O → 2 Mg3Si2O5(OH)4
When this reaction occurs in the presence of dissolved carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) at temperatures above 500 °C (932 °F) Reaction 2a takes place.
Reaction 2a:
Olivine + water + carbonic acid → serpentine + magnetite + methane
(Fe,Mg)2SiO4 + nH2O + CO2 → Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 + Fe3O4 + CH4
or, in balanced form:
18 Mg2SiO4 + 6 Fe2SiO4 + 26 H2O + CO2 → 12 Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 + 4 Fe3O4 + CH4
However, reaction 2(b) is just as likely, and supported by the presence of abundant talc-carbonate schists and magnesite stringer veins in many serpentinised peridotites;
Reaction 2b:
Olivine + water + carbonic acid → serpentine + magnetite + magnesite + silica
(Fe,Mg)2SiO4 + n H2O + CO2 → Mg3Si2O5(OH)4 + MgCO3 + SiO2
The upgrading of methane to higher n-alkane hydrocarbons is via dehydrogenation of methane in the presence of catalyst transition metals (e.g. Fe, Ni). This can be termed spinel hydrolysis.
Spinel polymerization mechanism
Magnetite, chromite and ilmenite are Fe-spinel group minerals found in many rocks but rarely as a major component in non-ultramafic rocks. In these rocks, high concentrations of magmatic magnetite, chromite and ilmenite provide a reduced matrix which may allow abiotic cracking of methane to higher hydrocarbons during hydrothermal events.
Chemically reduced rocks are required to drive this reaction and high temperatures are required to allow methane to be polymerized to ethane. Note that reaction 1a, above, also creates magnetite.
Reaction 3:
Methane + magnetite → ethane + hematite
n CH4 + n Fe3O4 + n H2O → C2H6 + Fe2O3 + HCO
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3
+ H+
Reaction 3 results in n-alkane hydrocarbons, including linear saturated hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, aromatics, and cyclic compounds.
They told us it was from dead dinosaurs and old trees. It’s still called fossil fuel. I think they had to redo the BS we learned when the old oil fields they thot were dried up started percolating again.
That’s just great. Now you’re gonna have the ecoterrorists out there trying to blow the whole thing up with and without explosive legislation.
You guys need to brush up on your geology. I would start with source rocks and kerogen. This article is very vague. Woodford/ Barnett plays have been going on in the western Delaware Basin for years but they are mostly gas. This could be an oil play in the Midland Basin.
Should this be a surprise???
There is plenty enough oil and gas in this word to satisfy our fossil fuel needs for many generations to come.
California has a huge deposit off of Santa Barbara. The greenies won’t let them drill so it seeps out of the ground and washes up on the beach.
There is probably more petroleum in the crust and mantle than there is water in all of the oceans combined and that including the 10’s amount of water they just found in the mantle and crust a few years ago. Oil and gas will never be depleted, Its still being produced now, water is the same water from many billions of years ago. There is no chemistry on earth creating water from natural processes.
Water exists in Earth’s crust and mantle, not as liquid oceans, but chemically bound within minerals like ringwoodite and wadsleyite in the mantle’s transition zone (250-410 miles deep), potentially holding more water than all surface oceans combined, transported down via subduction, and released through volcanism, playing a crucial role in the deep water cycle that replenishes surface water over geological time. In the Mantle Deep Reservoir: Huge amounts of water are locked in the mantle transition zone (between 250 and 410 miles deep) within the molecular structure of high-pressure minerals, primarily ringwoodite, which can hold significant amounts of water.Not Liquid: This isn’t a liquid ocean; it’s water chemically incorporated as hydroxyl ions (\(OH^{-}\)) within the mineral’s crystal lattice, essentially “sponged” up by the rock.Transport: Water gets to the mantle via subduction, where oceanic plates sink, carrying seawater into the interior.Release: Under immense heat and pressure, these hydrated minerals can partially melt or release water as vapor during volcanic eruptions, contributing to the deep water cycle. In the Crust Hydrated Minerals: Seawater penetrates the oceanic crust, transforming minerals like olivine and pyroxene into hydrous minerals (e.g., serpentines), storing water within them.Groundwater: The crust also holds vast amounts of accessible liquid water in aquifers, lakes, and glaciers, though most of Earth’s water is in the oceans. The Deep Water Cycle This internal recycling process, where water is carried deep into the mantle and eventually returned to the surface through volcanoes, is essential for maintaining Earth’s surface oceans over billions of years.
Yep, the “greenies” have effectively removed the West Coast from suppling their own energy for transportation. Can’t wait for some greenie to sue the Sates for forcing the West Coast’s solution on to another people’s area because the West Coast does not want to “dirty” their air! Isn’t that like Pollution Slavery?
NM was a great place to live in the 1960s with great schools and great jobs. Now it’s schools are the worst in the nation and great jobs are being destroyed by the democrats. Maybe they want to make my home state another Tourist trap selling trinkets on the I-40 and I-25.
The idea that Oil came from dead dinosaurs is laughable but that is the BS we were fed for decades. The truth is there is enough oil to last a thousand years minimum. That fact is messes up the narrative and justification for strangling the engines on our cars
The idea that Oil came from dead dinosaurs is laughable but that is the BS we were fed for decades. The truth is there is enough oil to last a thousand years minimum. That fact is messes up the narrative and justification for strangling the engines on our cars
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