http://energybusinessdaily.com/oil/alternative-fuels/fossils-from-animals-and-plants-not-required-for-crude-oil-and-natural-gas-according-to-swedish-research/ Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:39:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://energybusinessdaily.com/oil/alternative-fuels/fossils-from-animals-and-plants-not-required-for-crude-oil-and-natural-gas-according-to-swedish-research/comment-page-1/#comment-2811 John Dodson Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:39:05 +0000 http://energybusinessdaily.com/?p=4119#comment-2811 About time. This comes as no surprise to a great many of us who have followed the work of the Russian geologists in the later half of the 20th Century and the impish Thomas Gold here in America, who disputed the American trained petroleum engineers by pointing out the petroleum embedded in igneous rock and far deeper than any surface material could ever reach. It has served our oil companies well to hold the price of their lifeblood higher with the "peak oil" boogyman for years, and it is certainly true the easily raised product is depleting. But Oil is still being made at geologic rates, as is gas and even coal, if you follow Prof. Gold's well reasoned explanation of the methane fluids emanating from deep Earth, and the ancient microbes that feed on it in the upper six kilometers of so of crust to impart the real organic signature to petroleum - not dinosaurs or mythical swamps hundreds of feet deep from the Carboniferous. Interesting the Swedes would suddenly discover this. About time. This comes as no surprise to a great many of us who have followed the work of the Russian geologists in the later half of the 20th Century and the impish Thomas Gold here in America, who disputed the American trained petroleum engineers by pointing out the petroleum embedded in igneous rock and far deeper than any surface material could ever reach. It has served our oil companies well to hold the price of their lifeblood higher with the “peak oil” boogyman for years, and it is certainly true the easily raised product is depleting. But Oil is still being made at geologic rates, as is gas and even coal, if you follow Prof. Gold’s well reasoned explanation of the methane fluids emanating from deep Earth, and the ancient microbes that feed on it in the upper six kilometers of so of crust to impart the real organic signature to petroleum – not dinosaurs or mythical swamps hundreds of feet deep from the Carboniferous. Interesting the Swedes would suddenly discover this.

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