Hey! Another Oil thread!

[waterinthefuel]

Re: Hey! Another Oil thread!

Very interesting indeed.

Another excerpt from those who are in disbelief and didn't click on the link:

Dr. Gold strongly believes that oil is a "renewable, primordial soup continually manufactured by the Earth under ultrahot conditions and tremendous pressures. As this substance migrates toward the surface, it is attached by bacteria, making it appear to have an organic origin dating back to the dinosaurs. The theory suggests there may be huge, yet-to-be-discovered reserves of oil at depths that dwarf current world estimates."

 

[jay_merrill]

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A very interesting article and the logic makes sense. In many cases where technical topics are being discussed in open content forums/threads, so-called experts are quoted, and when you read the articles or studies involved, the information just sounds like quackery. This one doesn't reek of nonsense spewed by some whacko geek, who fancies him/herself to be an expert in something that they are clearly, anything but an expert in.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if this theory turns out to have some merit to it. I also wouldn't be surprised if a few sizeable exploration and production companies are at least looking into the theory. Freeport MaMoRan, which is currently drilling a 35,000 foot well in the Gulf of Mexico, may be one of those companies.

That said, sorry, but I'm still not buyin the idea of running the Astro Van on bug farts!

 

[SgtMaj]

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[aspeck]

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So, does this mean I can tow a trailer of garbage around with these wonderful little critters in them. Run a hose from the trailer to my gas tank, and instead of stopping at the filling station, I just need to take the neighbors garbage every time they set it by the curb for the garbage man? Hmmm, gives new meaning to "Fill 'er up."

"Yep, I get 150 miles to the garbage can." "My, I got a batch of bugs that can really crap out the oil."

 

[zoe'sdad]

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The well you are all refering to is Eugene Island. LSU sent a team out to investgate the well using the latest 3-D seismograph equipment and reported that it looked like gusher coming up. They determined the oil is coming up from a larger reserve below the existing well.

Try googling oil tree or diesel producing tree. It will bring up a tree in Brazil whose sap can be run in diesel engines without any refining. Lot of stuff out there right now. Another one is sythetic diesel. A company in Europe figured out a way to recycle plastics into methane and diesel. All plastic except PVC can be used.

 

[jay_merrill]

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I still think this idea is interesting. After reading a couple of articles, I've learned that even some of the oil giants like Exxon looked into the idea.

This much seems to be known - after using multiple layers of 3-D seismic, which artificially created "4-D" seismic information, the researchers involved in the Eugene Island study confirmed that the reservior was re-filling from below. They created a time lapsed presentation of the seismic and were actually able to see "gushing" into the higher reservior.

This doesn't mean that the source of the oil was as stated in Dr. Gold's presentations, but I don't think it is impossible that his theories have some merit to them. That said, the idea of crude and gas migrating into a known reservior from one that was previously unkown makes perfect sense too. This is especially true in the Gulf Coast region. which was once described to me by a petroleum engineer as having a fault structure that looks sort of like a shattered auto windshield. His point was that vast "oil sands" were usually fractured and I would think that some seepage between the individual reserviors would be inevitable.

I don't think any of this means much in terms of short term energy needs but it is still interesting. Who knows where oil will be found next?