Oil as a renewing resource?

Question

The reason I asked that question earlier is that Rock is constantly being rolled back into the Core and I thought maybe as it become molten that oil would rise to the Layer where it is extracted

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Answer 1

Oil is one of the end results of a long, long process of decomposition, heat, pressure, and transformation of molecular structures. Many people are unaware that there are multiple types of oil resulting form differences in all of the components of the process.

As a "renewable resource," you are barking up the wrong geologic age. Once the oil available on Earth is gone - that is, the "petroleum" created through metamorphic processes in deep layers of the planet - human beings may berely live long enough for them to see more. it takes many millions of years to create oil through purely natural processes. And the many physical changes in the planet that cause it to begin with, including vast earthquakes, total transformation of the layers of the Earth's crust, extinction of life forms, and other events, suggest that when is more oil made in the distant future, humans might themselves be part of the matter eventually converted into petroleum.

Well, no, that's hardly likely. Decomposition would prevent that.

But, anyhow - no, oil is not a practical form of a renweable resource. It is possible to make synthetic versions of petroleum, or to make alternative fuels that have some of the key features of petroleum, however.

Ultimately, humanity may discover that petroleum is much too valuable to just burn. It is a fundamental ingredient of many kinds of medicines. It plays a role in various types of chemistry and other applications that may not ever be replaced or reproduced artificially.

And humans will never live long enough to get more once it is gone.

Answer 2

Oil would be destroyed by the heat in the mantle. It's just big molecular chains, they'd be broken down in the intense heat. It's hot down where the oil collects, but not hot enough to melt rock like it is in the mantle.

Rock doesn't roll back to the core, just down to the mantle. Only the heaviest of elements can sink down to the core. Carbon hydrogen oxygen and sulfur are too light. They'd just be scattered and incorporated into the mantle and crust.

Oil is the remains of single celled marine creatures that collected in what were once valleys on the ocean floor, the valleys were buried and the volatiles migrated upward until they collected in geological formations they couldn't pass through, viola an oil/natural gas deposit.

The currently used deposits are the collected remnants of millions, if not billions of years of accumulation. It's being used way, way faster than it's being replaced.

Answer 3

Some scientists insist that all petroleum comes from abiogenic processes, with hydrocarbon development occurring in the Earth's mantle.

An explorationist might dismiss the entire controversy over petroleum origination, except for two key points:

* Theorists of abiogenic petroleum tend to see hydrocarbons as not just abundant but super-abundant, with no possibility of constrained supply.
* Petroleum generated by abiogenic processes could occur anywhere, so exploration need not be limited to sedimentary basins, or to depths of only a few miles.

"The only real opponents to this story (of abiogenic origin) are in Western Europe and in the United States, and they are the professional petroleum geologists,"

Answer 4

No Oil is formed by organic material. The crude we pump now is from the time of the dinosaurs. Once oil is gone it is gone for a looooooooong time.

Answer 5

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