Posted on 02/19/2017 1:38:04 PM PST by rktman
I am a petroleum geologist/geophysicist with about 36 years of experience in oil & gas exploration mostly in the Gulf of Mexico. In light of Andy May’s recent post, Oil – Will we run out?, I thought I might post an essay on oil formation.
Over the past six years, I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to write guest posts for Watts Up With That thanks to Anthony Watts. Many of my posts have been about issues related to oil production and each of these posts usually triggers comments from Abiogenic Oil advocates. So, this post’s main thrust will be to explain why the Abiogenic Oil hypothesis is not widely accepted and why we think that the original source of crude oil is organic matter.
It’s possible that oil forms in the mantle all the time. The chemical equations can be balanced. So, as an olive branch to Abiogenic Oil aficionados, I will unequivocally state that their favored hypothesis is not impossible.
(Excerpt) Read more at wattsupwiththat.com ...
His drilling project is described at the link, and elsewhere on the internet.
I kinda sped read thru this and shook my head a few times...
I don’t even know anything on the issue but if I had to throw out a hypothesis it would be this... Water... just plain water leaking down into the earths crust picking up various minerals along the way with elements like sulfur and others as well as core gases, being cooked under pressure is a possibility. I never believed it was organic.
Great article! Just skimming through it it answered every question I ever had about organic vs. abiogenic oil.
Let’s let the libs and enviros know that coal is bio. Then they will be all for it.
Yes, use it or it will be like the perceived sea level rise. We will be doomed.
Paul Harvey had a radio program on this subject years ago. Initially that nearly every 5 years some expert has emphatically stated that oil was going to runout.
2) oil companies, who fear that prices will drop if people believe the supply is unlimited.
People would just use more oil, increasing demand, and prices would go up.
[[Oil – Where did it come from?]]
Coconuts-
Epic.
/Hemi owner
It doesn't make sense to think it's from dead animals and plants.......never bought into "Fossil" fuels.
I wasn’t referring to him as my recollection of some of the hypotheses goes back to the late 60’s. I was a Geography/Geology/Geomorphology student at UCLA. I left in ‘67 to go into the Army and there was already quite a buzz going about this new theory.
Then, maybe the old data-bank is getting a little unstable and I might have conflated bit and pieces..
You cannot imagine the fun I had over the years debunking leftards about running out of everything. First of all, to a parson, they are abysmally stupid. Secondly, most of them have never gotten their hand dirty and so don’t know what hard, dirty work mining or working in a slaughter house is. Thirdly, they are in no hurry to educate themselves. So, they’re easy pickings.
Thanks for the post. It added to my somewhat dated knowledge.
Millions of tons of organic matter is subducted at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean every week. It goes some where.
Algae, diatoms, bacteria, fungi, cocolithophores, krill, fish, etc., all make up an incredible amount of biomass in the oceans. Where does all this biomass end up? Take a guess.
I knew that’s why I had my eye on a Challenger Scat Pack...to do the Lord’s work.
It’s much more likely that we’ll have peak oil prices than peak oil.
In fact we may have already had peak oil prices.
Nuclear and geothermal energy, in addiction to that which bubbles up from below, may serve well. Solar can be refined and seems to be as consistent in terms of energy as anything known throughout the ages. There may also be an undiscovered source of energy. Once we find it and make use of it, how will will we use it, and will that use be in accord with what is good and right? We are stewards of God’s creation.
Oil – Where did it come from?.....Easy. Titusville, PA. I always tell visitors “ This is where all the crap in the world, today, came from. Poor old Edwin didn’t realize the shitstorm he released.
If we deplete all the oil, the plates will grind on each other, seize up and we'll all die in increasingly violent earthquakes.
Yeah, I know, but it sounded good to West Coast pothead enviromentalists. Truth is secondary...
pfl
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