Author Topic: How is oil made? (Read 1731 times)

acfireguy26 · « **Reply #45 on:** February 16, 2008, 11:26:18 PM »

You drilled to deep, and came out in the South China Sea.

Dowding · « **Reply #46 on:** February 17, 2008, 04:47:05 AM »

You don't run out of commodities, their price becomes too high to be used and alternatives have to be found...

... if you can find an alternative.

lazs2 · « **Reply #47 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:06:51 AM »

trax.. that is exactly what I am saying.. that we will always have oil.. we may have more or less of a supply of it from time to time but.. it will still exists long after we are gone.

Rpm tells us that if his well runs dry that proves that we can run out of oil.. no.. it proves only that one spot can run out of oil for a short period of time. Oil has been discovered everywhere it is drilled for in the ocean.. fields with billions of barrels a year off south america and the gulf of mexico. It is foolish to think that even bigger fields are not out there.. more than we have used to date.

That being the case.. we will eventually get off the oil habit.. 100, 200 years from now.. whatever. oil will then, eventually, start bubbling up through the ground again and be a simple nucience ruining crops and such. The bacwards 9th century religion types will have sand and useless oil and not much else.

lazs

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #48 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:13:07 AM »

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Originally posted by moot
Cough Nuclear world war cough

no,
Kong is right.
the planet has been through far worse then anything we can ever hope to throw at it.
Including nuclear war.

As Carlin said
The PLANET is fine.
The PEOPLE are screwed.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #49 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:15:49 AM »

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Originally posted by KONG1
Most of the oil we use was made during a time period when the earth was much much warmer than it is today. be flicked off and discarded.

But..but...but...
I thought it was factories and car emissions that made the earth warm!:D

Thrawn · « **Reply #50 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:17:16 AM »

The vast majority of geologists and other scientists subscribe to the biogenic theory of oil.

A small minority believe in abiogenic theory of oil.

If I was going to make decisions about this resource that could severely impact the future of mankind, I know which theory I would base it on.

Angus · « **Reply #51 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:21:49 AM »

Since oil is an organic based thing in the beginning, and gets created, it is being created all the time.
However, as far as the best math goes, what we use in a day, goes on the balance of 1 to 10.000.

So, when do we run out of oil?

lazs2 · « **Reply #52 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:30:26 AM »

angus.. I don't know when we run out but I know it isn't in 1990.

I tend to believe that we won't. We may not even ever get low on supply..

We may deplete the readily available (by todays standards) supply but that is not even certain.

Might as well consult a gypsy as listen to the hand wringers.

lazs

Angus · « **Reply #53 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:35:26 AM »

Ahh, maybe this curve has the answer?

john9001 · « **Reply #54 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:52:08 AM »

whats that? another computer model?

the truth is the earth will officially run out of oil on July 15, 2030, you will receive this news in your solar power home or your electric car.

WWhiskey · « **Reply #55 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:52:49 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
I'm just wondering why my #1, 2 & 3 wells quit producing anything but saltwater. Lazs tells me they are refilling, but the petroleum engineers at Devon say the wells are depleted.

Hmm, who should I believe, a several guys with a degrees in petroleum engineering or some nutbag on the intardweb?

Say Lazs, just how many oil wells have you mapped and drilled?

you need to move up to the canadian and wheeler area, we are poking 4 holes to every one that was there and capping as fast as we can go!

lazs2 · « **Reply #56 on:** February 17, 2008, 12:15:41 PM »

angus.. and maybe that "curve" doesn't have a clue.

lazs

Angus · « **Reply #57 on:** February 17, 2008, 12:18:58 PM »

And out of none of those comes oil that is anything less than millions of years old.
But you can drill a lot of holes in a million years.

As to resources than mankind has depleted, - a complete depletion is difficult. But if you go to 90-99% of what used to be a booming industry that collapses, leaving practically nothing for a while, and then some yeald after some time, there are plenty of examples that "we ran out of".
Most of them (from the top of my head) would be from plants or animals, and areawise.
My country depleted it's forests to practically nothing, leaving almost no wood for utilization at all. It is still so.
We also have the dubious honor of completely exterminating a seabird of some rariety, well, being an excellend source of food, the poor one couldn't fly....
An example of depletion is the American Bison, and the huge business based exclusively on exploitation in the 19th century.
Some 60 million + of stock went down to practically nothing, but luckily not all the way. A big business also went under.
A good example of mining, the short term profit, and human nature comes from the tiny island of Nauru.
It's phosphate mines gave the few inhabitants the best GNP in the world, - while they lasted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru
And it was run by a corporate, which the government ran, it went to corruption, foregn innvestments, and then they ran out.
Economically a disaster, environmentally a disaster.
A small scale, - a scaled down globe really....

Angus · « **Reply #58 on:** February 17, 2008, 12:22:13 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
angus.. and maybe that "curve" doesn't have a clue.

lazs

Maybe you don't have a clue. Cling to your belief of unemptiable resources, but bear in mind that there are plenty of examples of resources being depleted down to the level of not paying off. Then we move somewhere else. Plenty of examples where the industrial revolution was born, such as coal mines in the UK and Germany which are now closed down. Does the UK have a single coal mine running now?
They weren't out, but it was getting a tad far fetched......I guess they'll open again one day and finish the job.
You see, when the globe has been hopped over a few times, we will run out....

lazs2 · « **Reply #59 on:** February 17, 2008, 12:22:27 PM »

angus.. not sure what you are saying. Are you saying the world has or will run out of trees or ore that is mined?

What makes you think man will either not evolve or not die out before we run out of anything. The buggy whip crisis was averted narrowly... the whale oil crisis was averted... why sit around and wring your hands?

The entire length of the misissippi river was denuded of trees for steam boats.. end of the world right? they are back the steam boat paddlewheelers are not.

lazs