Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil

[Liffrea]

Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated. The findings are revolutionary since this means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they can be found all over the globe.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910084259.htm

[Skandi]

Okay now you sent me running of to find the article.

There is no doubt that our research proves that crude oil and natural gas are generated without the involvement of fossils. 1All types of bedrock can serve as reservoirs of oil,” 2says Vladimir Kutcherov, who adds that this is true of land areas that have not yet been prospected for these energy sources.

But the discovery has more benefits. The degree of accuracy in finding oil is enhanced dramatically – from 20 to 70 percent. Since drilling for oil and natural gas is a very expensive process, the cost picture will be radically altered for petroleum companies, and in the end probably for consumers as well.

“The savings will be in the many billions,” says Vladimir Kutcherov.

To identify where it is worthwhile to drill for natural gas and oil, Vladimir Kutcherov has used his research to arrive at a new method. It involves dividing the globe into a finely meshed grid. The grid corresponds to fissures, so-called ‘migration channels,’ 3through underlying layers under the surface of the earth. Wherever these fissures meet, it is suitable to drill.

1. Yes this has been known for some time, the Russians are the greatest proponents of the idea, but oil has never been found that has a chemical signature that would match that of such authogenic deposits

2. Wrong not all bedrock can contain hydrocarbons, and few types at all make good points for extraction, this is totally independent of how the hydrocarbons were made and got there.

3. Uh?? Faults do not tend to connect and they are not all permeable, some in fact form very good seals to existing oil reservoirs. Also the processes that produce this hydrocarbon are very slow, they have to be, you don't see great jets of methane spouting out of the ground do you?

A couple more problems with the entire study is that although it proves this can happen in the lab there is little evidence for it happening in nature. And something that the article above has missed is that this DOES NOT PRODUCE OIL it forms saturated hydrocarbons containing 2–4 carbons (ethane, propane and butane) and molecular hydrogen and graphite.
Now the fractions of crude that we use are;

The alkanes from pentane (C5H12) to octane (C8H18) are refined into gasoline (petrol), the ones from nonane (C9H20) to hexadecane (C16H34) into diesel fuel and kerosene (primary component of many types of jet fuel), and the ones from hexadecane upwards into fuel oil and lubricating oil.
Note that the lightest has 5 carbon atoms and the heaviest valuable one has 16 there are other heavier fractions asphaltine etc but they are less valuable.

So all this process would produce is stuff that we already have in abundance not what we need.