Comments on: Abiogenic Oil

By: Good peak oil visuals

Good peak oil visuals — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:00:42 +0000

[...] back in the 20's, and was scoffed at by the general scientific community.. Sustainable oil? Abiogenic Oil | A Second Hand Conjecture Like the global warming conspiracy, this is stuff that the general public will not be told about.. [...]

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By: jonah

jonah — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:15:28 +0000

Surely oil and natural gas are abiogenic and primordial materials.

By: Paul Graham Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About : The Drama 2.0 Show

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:00:33 +0000

[...] In 1914, the US Bureau of Mines predicted that the world’s supply of oil would run out in ten years. In 1951 the US Interior Department predicted the wells would run dry in 13 years. In 1972, the Club of Rome predicted that the world would run out of oil in 1992 and natural gas in 1993. All the while the Saudis keep investing billions to keep finding more dinosaur cemeteries. Funny this is they’re doing a good job. A new field, Khurais, has 27 billion barrels and will take 50 years to deplete, unless of course you simply believe the Saudis are lying. And the Brazilians, too. There can’t be that much oil, right? I guess. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:47:27 +0000

Chris said on HoyStory: “Abiogenic oil is not taken very seriously by the scientific community.” Maybe so.
This is the trouble with scientists, and the primary reason why we have engineers. http://magazine.mst.edu/2006/09/prime_slime_umr_has_big_plans.html
Within a decade or so, we’re going to be growing our own crude oil. Courtesy of engineers, not scientists!

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:23:26 +0000

Additionally there’s very little evidence for abiogenic oil, while there is a great deal for biogenic. I’m also surprised anyone could say coal is abiogenic when coal rocks are filled with plant and more specifically fern fossils.

By: ChrisB

ChrisB — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:45:35 +0000

Yet in recent years Russia has quietly become the world’s top producer of oil, in part by drilling wells as deep as 40,000 feet — far below the graveyards of T-Rex and his Mesozoic buddies.

Oil isn't made from dinosaur bones so this reasoning is pretty irrelevant.

By: MichaelW

MichaelW — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:36:17 +0000

The whole theory (if I understand it correctly) is based on the fact that the abundance of H, C, etc. is never depleted (matter neither destroyed or created, and all), and thus the supply of oil is constantly regenerating. It simply waits for extraction to create space for new reserves.

That being said, you're right that depletion of the core elements is a concern, even if there are 100 times as much oil as we think there is now. But the idea that we'll deplete that oil within our lifetimes (or those of our great grandchildren) relies on many more assumptions than the theory that oil is abiogenically generated.

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:08:01 +0000

I can believe this, but it requires a ready supply of oil’s component chemicals – H, C, etc. It’s possible that even if oil is abiogenic, the inner earth has now exhausted its supply of one or more of them. If so, even if we find deeper reservoirs, the factory may have closed down. Reopening it would require new injections of raw materials.