22-06-2013, 10:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 23-06-2013, 12:04 AM by Adele Edisen.)
Today I came back to this topic and saw all the requests for information. To save time, I urge everyone to go to Google and search for "abiotic oil production."
Here is Kenney's paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2002. a paper I referenced in the Rich DellaRosa forum:
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/17/10976.full.pdf+html
An easier to read version: http://www.pnas.org/content/99/17/10976.full
One reason oil corporations like the biotic idea of oil production is that it makes oil a scarce product, so its prices can be set quite high. Also, that's a very old Russian idea from the 18th Century.
After WWII, Russian oil fields were running dry, so their geologists dug deeper wells and found oil below the levels where life had formed. Obviously then, living matter was not the source of oil.
The new hypothesis of abiotixc oil production developed in the early 1950s to explain this new souorce of oil.
I met a retired oil geologist here in Texas who told me about this abiotic idea, and that was the first time I had heard of such an idea.
Thanks, Magda, and Jim, for that Prouty piece.
Adele
Here is Kenney's paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2002. a paper I referenced in the Rich DellaRosa forum:
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/17/10976.full.pdf+html
An easier to read version: http://www.pnas.org/content/99/17/10976.full
One reason oil corporations like the biotic idea of oil production is that it makes oil a scarce product, so its prices can be set quite high. Also, that's a very old Russian idea from the 18th Century.
After WWII, Russian oil fields were running dry, so their geologists dug deeper wells and found oil below the levels where life had formed. Obviously then, living matter was not the source of oil.
The new hypothesis of abiotixc oil production developed in the early 1950s to explain this new souorce of oil.
I met a retired oil geologist here in Texas who told me about this abiotic idea, and that was the first time I had heard of such an idea.
Thanks, Magda, and Jim, for that Prouty piece.
Quote:In the fourth section, the thermodynamic Affinity developed using this formalism establishes that the hydrocarbon molecules peculiar to natural petroleum are high-pressure polymorphs of the HC system, similarly as diamond and lonsdaleite are to graphite for the elemental carbon system, and evolve only in thermodynamic regimes of pressures greater than 2550 kbar (1 kbar = 100 MPa).
The fifth section reports the experimental results obtained using equipment specially designed to test the predictions of the previous sections. Application of pressures to 50 kbar and temperatures to 1,500°C upon solid (and obviously abiotic) CaCO3 and FeO wet with triple-distilled water, all in the absence of any initial hydrocarbon or biotic molecules, evolves the suite of petroleum fluids: methane, ethane, propane, butane, pentane, hexane, branched isomers of those compounds, and the lightest of the n-alkene series.
Adele