Brazil and various other countries are becoming aware of abiotic oil. Abiotic simply means that it is produced without the benefit of oxidation.
Normal drilling platforms are not capable of tapping such supplies. Why do you thing British Petroleum made such a mess in the Gulf of Mexico, when they tried to use today’s technology in such deep sea exploration.
No they are only finding oil in sedimentary basins.
Abiotic simply means that it is produced without the benefit of oxidation.
That is not what abiotic means. It is the theory of oil forming without biotic generation, in other words, without the biological material like algae or plankton. Crude oil is formed without oxidation. If oxygen was present, the material would breakdown in water, carbon-dioxide, etc. Crude oil does not contain oxygen.
Judging from the rig data instrumentation graphs, they got a bad cement job on their casing, and no one bothered to halt the displacement of the wellbore with seawater, which lowered the hydrostatic pressure well below what was needed to keep the well under control.
That is how wells blow out, when the formation pressure exceeds the hydrostatic pressure of the drilling fluid in the wellbore and no other means are used to contain that fluid in the formation. In this case, the BOP did not do its job, and the well was already blowing out by the time the BOP closure was attempted, with nearly a mile of marine riser involved above the BOP.
There was a series of mechanical failures and human errors which led to the loss of control of a well which had been under control up until the displacement.
Abiotic simply means that it is produced without the benefit of oxidation.
Oil is not produced in an oxidizing environment, otherwise, it'd be oxidized and be CO2 and H2O instead of CH4 and longer chains of hydrogen and carbon.
The common understanding of "abiotic" is created without any biological activity, literally, without life.
Every oil reservoir I have ever produced oil from has had a source rock rich in organic compounds derived from biotic debris and remains, hence: "fossil" fuel.
Even incidents of allegedly 're-filling' reservoirs can be traced along fault lines to other reservoirs at greater depth, not some miraculous mantle-generated flow of unlimited oil.