[RFEngineer]

So we can mark you down as an “abiotic oil denier”?

[thackney]

No, you can mark me down who understands oil and geology.

I’m not claiming that an oil cannot be produced by an aboitic means. I am claiming that 99.999% or more of the oil we use is not produced that way.

I understand that our oil we use in the petroleum industry contains unique quantities and qualities, including microfossils, such that individual oil samples can be traced to their field of origin. Each one is different.

[Smokin' Joe]

Denier? Isn't that an admission that all the 'science is settled' like Anthropogenic Global Warming?

Let me put it this way. Seeing is believing.

All of the oil I have seen in nearly 40 years in the exploration industry has been associated with or migrated from sediments containing biological material.

Of the couple of wells I know which were based on abiotic models, all that got produced was money from investors. Such ventures have failed for lack of petroleum.

I'm not saying it couldn't happen somewhere, but that (abiotic oil) just isn't what we have been bringing out of the ground.