[doghorse]

I tried to tell people this when it was first theorized maybe over 30 years ago now.

[Sawdring]

The abiotic oil creation theory is rising again.

[jjotto]

Thomas Gold’s abiogenic oil theory goes back 60 years.

All the ‘smart people’ consider it pseudoscience, some even claiming the idea is Soviet.

[silverleaf]

People need to checkout abiotic ( abiogenesis) oil theory

[Original Lurker]

Same here..!
(my dad was a geophysicist)

[cuban leaf]

Every time I bring up Thomas Gold, I’m told it is baloney.

Well one thing’s for sure. Nobody’s talking peak oil any more.

[cuban leaf]

Me too. It didn’t go over well.

[Sequoyah101]

I was fortunate to have participated on the edges of the Siljan ring well that tested Thomas Gold’s theory of the abiogenic origins of hydrocarbons. The Russian’s Kola Peninsula well was also to test the theory.

Some traces of mobile hydrocarbons were found in the Siljan ring well but not much.

Gold published a very good article in “The Atlantic” in the early 80s as I recall.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Maybe someone can confirm or clarify this for me. It seems I read that by the beginning of the 20th century, the Azerbaijani (later Soviet) oil fields in Baku were pumping over half of the global production of oil. By WWII the Soviets declared the on-shore wells were dry, the field exhausted. They started drilling productive wells farther and farther out into the Caspian sea.

Come to find out, a decade or two later, the on-shore underground oil reservoirs were filling up again. It was Soviet scientists who developed the (then radical) hypothesis that the earth's crust was itself generating new oil, independent of any supposed deposits of Jurassic vegetation.

Comment? My own knowledge is sketchy -- and that's overstating it.