Please give your theory on Abiotic oil.?

Question

Please give your theory on Abiotic oil, is it true that ultra deep oil wells in Russia refill from the earths mantle, therefore dispelling the theory that oil is biotic and is in fact abiotic??

So we're not going to run out of Oil???

Answer 1

All the oil that I know is biogenic in origin. You can do very detailed geochemical analyses of oils (gas-chromatography, mass-spectrometry, etc), and the oils contain quite literally hundreds of biomarkers that can be directly correlated with its origin (from plant material, algae, etc deeply buried in sedimentary rocks). This is fact, not theory. Geologists use this technique to predict where to find more oil, vs. where not to look.

As far as I understand it, the Russians (back in the Cold War USSR era) had a different theory of the origins of oil (i.e. it comes from the Mantle). They did not have access to the geochemical technology, and when the theory started to look a bit shaky scientifically, they clung to it for ideological reasons.

Trust me, no one (to my knowledge) seriously believes this in Russia today. As far as I know, Russia's vast oil reserves are all accounted for biogenically.

There have been some ultra deep wells that have encountered traces of hydrocarbons (gases, not oil, as the pressure & temperature are too high for oil to exist). This is hardly surprising given that vast amounts of organic-bearing sedimentary rock have been subducted, and that methane and carbon dioxide are major components of volcanic gases.

Answer 2

Abiotic oil acounts for a fraction of a percent of worldwide oil, at most. Oil companies spend billions of dollars a year to get oil, if there was such a well that worked, there would be a dozen more all over the world.

Some scientists have theories about this, but they have never proven a resource that did not have biotic origin. They've only shown that some of the oil we know about MAY be abiotic.

We are running out of oil, and for this reason alone, they would try for it. If abiotic oil existed, Exxon and the like would find it and exploit it. But, this has not happened.

Answer 3

I think the doctor gave me an abiotic oil once when I had an infection. He told me to keep putting it on and it kills germs.

The oil part made it slippery, and the abiotic part killed those nasty little things called "once sold animals", that we know better as germans. Or is that bafateria?

I don't know. I am confused now. I have a headache.

Answer 4

We will run out of oil soon; abiotic oil accounts for just a fraction of the resourse. the gloomy day is creeping onto us unless someone designs a cheap water run super cars and machines, quick enough.

Answer 5

all crude oil contains the microscopic evidence that it is organic in origin. That's not actually a theory, it's true - but I think the scientific evidence answers the question!
We will run out of oil - but we could always return to burning witches! (sorry - I actually have nothing against those with Wiccan tendancies!)

Answer 6

Beyond the evidence, one way or another, I doubt if...even if this is proven to be 'true'...that it will EVER replace our reliance on the real-deal, biologically-produced crude oil. So, yes, we WILL run out of oil...it's just a matter of WHEN!

Answer 7

whoooow thats so deep man!!

Answer 8

yeah right