tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522376676055666486.post2248698533403358144..comments2023-11-02T06:36:05.561-07:00Comments on Ghawar Guzzler: Petrobras Wants You in the Rig ArmyBloggin' Brewskiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06117891792945288480noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522376676055666486.post-66008165339811759402009-03-31T21:18:00.000-07:002009-03-31T21:18:00.000-07:00Anaconda,There's too much oil, buried too deeply u...Anaconda,<BR/><BR/>There's too much oil, buried too deeply under too much salt, resting in too hot of an underground environment to exist - at least according to fossil fuel theory. 100+ billion barrels? <BR/><BR/>Still, the geologist pulled an understandable, but unfortunate copout of an explanation to satisfy, and spoon-feed the masses. Besides, abiotic oil remains controversial with the public at large (at least with those who've heard plus understand it, which is likely a minority), and especially, the scientific community itself. It's unlikely Bloomerg.com endorse abiotic oil without scientific consensus. <BR/><BR/>I saw OIM's bit on microbes converting water and CO2 into methane. This reminds me of the experimental processes scientists are doing now, where they use <A HREF="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/S2P" REL="nofollow">sunlight to convert CO2 into methane and gasoline</A>. Good stuff is coming.<BR/><BR/>Considering how high-tech offshore oil exploration and drilling has become, considering the advancements yet to come, our grandchildren will see these as wanton and barbaric.Bloggin' Brewskiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06117891792945288480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6522376676055666486.post-45843378914858719852009-03-31T11:41:00.000-07:002009-03-31T11:41:00.000-07:00PETROBAS OFFERS THIN EXPLANATIONPetrobas is in the...PETROBAS OFFERS THIN EXPLANATION<BR/><BR/>Petrobas is in the news, <A HREF="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a9hc9w4JfXDs" REL="nofollow">Tupi Oil Imperiled as Price Drop Unravels Energy Plan(Bloomberg) March 31 2009.</A><BR/><BR/>But Petrobas' explanation of the oil deposits' origin is complete baloney.<BR/><BR/>From the Bloomberg report:<BR/><BR/>"As Petrobras geologists explain it, the oil buried under the salt comes from the remains of a 130-million-year-old lake. The lake was formed as Africa and South America, once part of a supercontinent dubbed Gondwana, slowly separated, sending the lake and its rich layer of organic sediments to the bottom of what became the Atlantic Ocean, where they were gradually covered with sea salt. <BR/><BR/>Pressure, heat, time and the shifting of tectonic plates turned the sediment into oil."<BR/><BR/>Even the reporter lets slip a note of reservation about Petrobas's story: "As Petrobras geologists explain it..."<BR/><BR/>The geology of Brazil's offshore oil area doesn't match with Petrobas's explanation. 130 million years ago the area was at the bottom of the opening and spreading Atlantic rift between South America and Africa, this rift would continue opening until the present and is known, today, as the South Atlantic ocean.<BR/><BR/>Never was there a "lake" off present day's Brazil. Rather, without the deep rifts between the continents, sea levels were higher with shallow seas covering large parts of the continents (fossil fish, claims, and sea creatures have been found on the continents.<BR/><BR/>Salt does not build up on the bottom of oceans, certainly not to a 2- kilometer-thick layer of salt. Salt builds up below the bottom of the ocean as a result of <A HREF="http://www.martinhovland.com/new_salt_theory.htm" REL="nofollow">Supercritical water processes</A> where the salt drops out of solution.<BR/><BR/>This salt layer then acts to trap hydrocarbons as they rise from below the salt.Anacondahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05522474791573134808noreply@blogger.com