[Doctor Stochastic]

This theory is rather old. Most geologists reject it as its predictions aren't often borne out. It doesn't explain the sulfur and nitrogen in oil nor why oil isn't found in the oldest rocks.

[narses]

Oil forever ping!

[LifeTrek]

The Drilling & Development of the Oil & Gas Fields in the Dnieper-Donets Basin

The modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins is by no means simply an academic proposition. After its first enunciation by N. A. Kudryavtsev in 1951, the modern theory was extensively debated and exhaustively tested. Significantly, the modern theory not only withstood all tests put to it, but also it settled many previously unresolved problems in petroleum science, such as that of the intrinsic component of optical activity observed in natural petroleum, and also it has demonstrated new patterns in petroleum, previously unrecognized, such as the paleonological and trace-element characteristics of reservoirs at different depths. Most importantly, the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins has played a central role in the transformation of Russia (then the U.S.S.R.) from being a “petroleum poor” entity in 1951 to the largest petroleum producing and exporting nation on Earth.
(http://www.gasresources.net/DDBflds2.htm)
DKK

[FrankR]

Well, I've often wondered about this "fossil" oil theory my self. I mean, there would have had to have been and awful lot of dinosaurs to decay into the amount of oil that we know exists, not even counting what we have used in the past 100 years.

Of course, I often wonder where all my extra coat hangers come from too...I think socks are the embryonic form of a coat hanger, 'cause everytime I lose a sock in the dryer, I find more coat hangers around. Hummmmmm

[Dark Glasses and Corncob Pipe]

If oil is made up of dead dinosaurs, how the heck did the poor defunct dinosaurs commute to work? And how did they fuel their Coleman stoves?

If this post upsets or irritates you, it's probably because you're jealous of my tagline!

[familyop]

I've been told by geologists that it exists, but getting to it would be difficult to do and cause problems later (like overpopulation, pollution, market power balance changes, etc.).

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1098993/posts

Oil At New Highs - Opinions wanted on synthetic oil
MSNBC ^ | 3-16-04 | Jason Rines

This seems like this could be our ace in the hole...

Anything into oil

Stephen den Beste on this process

Anything Into Oil
http://www.discover.com/issues/may-03/features/featoil/

http://www.changingworldtech.com/home.html

Potential oil supply refill?

The world has more oil not less

The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993

PETROLEUM RESERVES EVALUATED WITH MODERN PETROLEUM SCIENCE

Another Washington Post article here

Oil Fields' Free Refill - More oil than we thought (maybe)

[DannyTN]

It has huge policy implications.

If oil is finite, it makes sense to save our oil and get the middle east to pump their's.

However, if oil is replenishable or flows underneath the earth's surface, then we should pump like crazy.

[Aquinasfan]

The prevailing explanation for the formation of oil and gas deposits is that they are the remains of plant and animal life that died millions of years ago and were compressed by heat and pressure over millions of years.

Never thought much of this theory, although I don't have a better one. Maybe this guy does.

[Lael]

The theory was first proposed in the 1950s by Russian and Ukranian scientists. Based on the theory, successful exploratory drilling has been undertaken in the Caspian Sea region, Western Siberia, and the Dneiper-Donets Basin.

I had the pleasure of reading a translation of the Russian Textbook "Exploration Geochemistry" [with a Preface written, which disagreed with the oil formation info, by Shell exploration types, out of California], curtesy of the largest LENDING Library on the Planet...the Ingersoll Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Also read there the original "Power From the Wind", a book documenting the HUGE wind generating station on Grandpa's Knob in New England in the early 1940's.

[VOA]

bump

[MistrX]

I have always been skeptical that there could have beenenough dead dinosaurs and plants to account for so much Texas tea.

[SunkenCiv]

Fossil Fuels Made without Fossils
Similar reactions deep in the Earth may
churn out hydrocarbons from inorganic matter
By Gabe Romain
http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2004-09-13-3