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To: billorites
This would be great if it were true but to me it seems to be a pipe dream. Paleontologist use microfossils to determine the probability of oil existing at a particular location. The proof the article points out is rather small.

What I find surprising is how many posters here seem to think this "must be true". If that is the case why do we have oil wells drying up? Why are they not constantly being replentished? Maybe they are but they cannot match the rate at which they are being pumped. Either way, this seems dead wrong.

58 posted on 03/05/2006 2:31:33 PM PST by trashcanbred (Anti-social and anti-socialist)
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To: trashcanbred
If that is the case why do we have oil wells drying up?

As silly as it sounds, some of these folks don't think any oil wells are drying up.

There is a tiny handful of oil wells (one in the Gulf of Mexico in particular) where a well appeared to have been "refilled"...which can be explained by migration of normally formed biogenic oil from another location.

However that was seized upon and exaggerated into "Oil wells all over the world are refilling and nobody knows why!" in support of abiogenic oil theories, and repeated ad nauseam.

Then you'll see experienced oil workers and oil geologists pop in and mention they've seen many, many wells and fields play out and not refill, and they're ignored, of course.

63 posted on 03/05/2006 2:44:14 PM PST by Strategerist
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