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To: crusty old prospector

What about the recent discovery of oil off Florida by BP? Here is the article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1210691/BP-strikes-giant-oil-Gulf-Mexico.html

According to the article, they must have drilled 30,000feet through the crust to get to it. If it is from plants and animals, how did it get that far under the crust, expecially if it is so light to begin with?


28 posted on 09/11/2009 12:56:57 PM PDT by blackpacific
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To: blackpacific
Oh,man, if only we could get to our "own oil" off Florida!

Even from what was known to be there before we would never have needed any sand monkey juice, ever!

Excuse my French, but the things who flew down the Towers were from right there , you know.

Speaking of that why don't we just bill them and have them build'um right back up?

Also, if the data is correct, those deep wells tend to fill back up quicker.

Post 12~14 = dead on , - not enough dinos (that wrong idea dates back to a lone Russian scholar in 1757), and sulfur?, oh, yeah, a one two punch there.

So many just accept stupid ideas and don't stop and think for themselves using basic facts.

30 posted on 09/11/2009 2:11:05 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: blackpacific
According to the article, they must have drilled 30,000feet through the crust to get to it. If it is from plants and animals, how did it get that far under the crust, expecially if it is so light to begin with?

Assume sediments form on a seabed at the rate of .01 inches per year. After 1 billion years, you will have total accumulation of 10 million inches which equals 158 miles!

35 posted on 09/11/2009 2:45:06 PM PDT by fso301
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The Gulf is just one big hole filled in with sediment. The rock they are producing from (the Lower Tertiary)outcrops in Texas and is productive there as well. The crust is still several miles below. Basins can be very deep. Some, including the Gulf and Anadarko, can be over 50,000’ deep to basement.


48 posted on 09/11/2009 9:58:54 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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