More Anomalies in the Origin of Petroleum (con't from Reader article)
More Anomalies in the Conventional Theory of the Origin of Petroleum (quotes from The Deep Hot Biosphere by Dr. Thomas Gold)
"The regional chemical signatures effect." Across large regions, oil is drilled from "a wide variety of geological formations"(gold59) of "varied composition (and) geological ages"(gold 58). The fossil fuel theory predicts that the distinct composition and age of a given geological formation will produce a particular chemical signature special to that formation, such as "abundance ratios of … minor constituents"(gold 58) and trace metals. However, "deposits of a large area often show common chemical features regardless of the … formations in which they are found." This indicates that the oil of a given region is formed from some common process at great depths, beneath the varied sedimentary formations near the surface from which it is eventually extracted. The fossil fuel theory cannot explain this effect.
"The self-refilling petroleum reservoirs anomaly." According to the fossil fuel theory, once a reservoir of oil or gas has been fully exploited it will run dry. A "given volume of production"(gold 59) from an oil or gas field results in a pressure drop which is then "used to estimate the total volume accessible to the wellbore."(gold59) These pressure measurements and their subsequent volume estimates are collated worldwide and were "the reason for the belief, widely publicized in the early 1970s, that the global supply of crude oil would be exhausted within fifteen years."(gold60) Sound familiar? Well turns out that "such estimates are nearly always much lower than the actual production over the course of many years."(gold 60) This is because of the widely reported phenomenon of petroleum reservoirs that seem to be refilling themselves. Only the abiogenic theory can account for this phenomenon, as only the abiogenic theory has hydrocarbons continually upwelling from deep below.
"The Hydrocarbon-Helium connection." Helium, an inert gas, is not able to be used by life and is therefore not expected to be associated with biological remains in any way. And yet helium is strongly associated with the supposedly biological fossil fuels. Since the helium comes from deep within the planet, we may assume that the hydrocarbons are too and they become entangled on their way up here to the sedimentary strata.
"The migration anomaly." Oil is assumed to have formed from vast stagnant swamps the likes of which cannot be found today, and then migrated laterally underground for long distances in some as yet unexplained fashion to the vast reservoir spaces in which it is found today. The mechanism of its migration has never been worked out.
"The depth effect." "Fossil fuel" hydrocarbons would be expected to be confined to the relatively shallow sedimentary stratas of the fossils, corresponding to the assumed geological epoch of their origin. However, "hydrocarbon-rich areas tend to be hydrocarbon-rich at all lower levels, corresponding to quite different geological epochs"(gold 58)
"The methane anomaly." " …methane is found in many locations where a (fossil fuel) explanation for its presence is improbable or where biological deposits seem inadequate to account for the size and extent of the methane resource …. (methane’s) widespread distribution indicates that many or most regions of the crust emit some methane,"(gold 58) a fact that the fossil-fuel view cannot account for with the same ease as the Abiogenic theory.
"The regional chemical signatures effect." Across large regions, oil is drilled from "a wide variety of geological formations"(gold59) of "varied composition (and) geological ages"(gold 58). The fossil fuel theory predicts that the distinct composition and age of a given geological formation will produce a particular chemical signature special to that formation, such as "abundance ratios of … minor constituents"(gold 58) and trace metals. However, "deposits of a large area often show common chemical features regardless of the … formations in which they are found." This indicates that the oil of a given region is formed from some common process at great depths, beneath the varied sedimentary formations near the surface from which it is eventually extracted. The fossil fuel theory cannot explain this effect.
"The self-refilling petroleum reservoirs anomaly." According to the fossil fuel theory, once a reservoir of oil or gas has been fully exploited it will run dry. A "given volume of production"(gold 59) from an oil or gas field results in a pressure drop which is then "used to estimate the total volume accessible to the wellbore."(gold59) These pressure measurements and their subsequent volume estimates are collated worldwide and were "the reason for the belief, widely publicized in the early 1970s, that the global supply of crude oil would be exhausted within fifteen years."(gold60) Sound familiar? Well turns out that "such estimates are nearly always much lower than the actual production over the course of many years."(gold 60) This is because of the widely reported phenomenon of petroleum reservoirs that seem to be refilling themselves. Only the abiogenic theory can account for this phenomenon, as only the abiogenic theory has hydrocarbons continually upwelling from deep below.
"The Hydrocarbon-Helium connection." Helium, an inert gas, is not able to be used by life and is therefore not expected to be associated with biological remains in any way. And yet helium is strongly associated with the supposedly biological fossil fuels. Since the helium comes from deep within the planet, we may assume that the hydrocarbons are too and they become entangled on their way up here to the sedimentary strata.
"The migration anomaly." Oil is assumed to have formed from vast stagnant swamps the likes of which cannot be found today, and then migrated laterally underground for long distances in some as yet unexplained fashion to the vast reservoir spaces in which it is found today. The mechanism of its migration has never been worked out.
"The depth effect." "Fossil fuel" hydrocarbons would be expected to be confined to the relatively shallow sedimentary stratas of the fossils, corresponding to the assumed geological epoch of their origin. However, "hydrocarbon-rich areas tend to be hydrocarbon-rich at all lower levels, corresponding to quite different geological epochs"(gold 58)
"The methane anomaly." " …methane is found in many locations where a (fossil fuel) explanation for its presence is improbable or where biological deposits seem inadequate to account for the size and extent of the methane resource …. (methane’s) widespread distribution indicates that many or most regions of the crust emit some methane,"(gold 58) a fact that the fossil-fuel view cannot account for with the same ease as the Abiogenic theory.
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