World will never run out of crude oil

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I wonder what our TREE HUGGIN Chairman has to say about this?

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279153

[WildBill3]

Tree huggers and ther eco garbage look out.Now were's that line for 25cent a gal gas

[bomelia]

A couple of us in our office occasionaly dredge this subject up. Where does oil really come from? It's funny how after all these years of using it, we still have no real proof that it's dino gas. And there are quite a number of folks proposing that it's generated deep in the core and mantle through abiotic processes. It would be quite a kick if it is finally determined to be an abiotic process whereby carbon and hydrogen and the rest are mixed down deep and distilled into oil. As for how the raw materials get down there, think continental subduction deep under the oceans. THen, the real question is, will we ever outstrip the natural production process?

None the less, crude will be around for a long time (my prediction). I believe this because natural reserves are found in unlikely places as well as in deeper places. Remember, there are planets and moons in our own solar system that contain lakes of liquid and frozen methane. No plants there. Plus the Germans perfected a process to create syngas during WWII.

Mike

[392cobra]

Originally Posted by bomelia

None the less, crude will be around for a long time (my prediction). I believe this because natural reserves are found in unlikely places as well as in deeper places. Mike

As far as I know,no one as sucked up a fossil or dino bone from any of those wells.

I wonder how all those dino's got together and died many miles under the current land surface ...much less many miles below the ocean floor.

[Paul F]

Great! We'll be able to continue to breed like rats on this petri dish until we run out of something else.

[Ronbo]

Humans, like rats tend to feed on themselves when their population gets too large.

[elmariachi]

I disagree with the assertions in that article. At the rate my FE burns gas, I am going to single-handedly deplete our entire stockpile of petroleum by next year.

What alot of people don't know is that in most states, drilling regulations have prohibited drilling wells too close together. Its called "spacing." For example, in much of SW OKlahoma, they have had to be one mile apart for over 30 years, due solely to state drilling laws created after the oil booms of the early 1900's to minimize land destruction and industrial chaos. These are huge wells of termendous depth and flow enormous amounts of oil and gas. Regardless of where fossil fuel comes from, long before we run out we can go back and get more of it flowing where we have already drilled. But first we gotta tell the Middle East to kiss our white Okie arses and start drilling at home.

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I don't think Gore cares how much oil we have.

[Ronbo]

I read an article sometime back about a huge deposit under Montana and at least three other states, supposed to be about five times the size of the Texas/Oklahoma deposit. Light, sweet crude to boot.

The Texas one is almost depleted from what I read. (at least the stuff we can get at) Problem with a lot of these is how far down they are.

Would also be cool if we could tap into the liquid methane at the bottom of the oceans, there's huge amounts of this that could be used in place of gasoline.

[Wayne Maybury]

Originally Posted by Paul F

Great! We'll be able to continue to breed like rats on this petri dish until we run out of something else.

I believe that we are beginning to run out of helium. Most GC's (gas chromatographs which are used for analyzing volatile liquids) have used helium as a carrier gas but now they are beginning to switch to other gases as helium is in short supply. From what I heard, there is no easy alternative way to make helium so once its gone, its gone.

As far as oil is concerned I heard a theory years ago that predicted that as we pump oil and reduce the pressure, more oil will come out of the surrounding area and re-fill the oil field. I don't know how much there is, but we certainly are doing a good job of using it up.

Wayne