[HoustonCurmudgeon]

the pressures they encountered were on the order of 60,000 PSI added to that the pressure of the water above another 22,000 PSI for a Total of 70 to 80 Thousand PSI.

WTF? If anything the water weight counters the flow rate pressure. ANOTHER crap article.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The DoomsDay crowd is busy....the imaginative writers are helping...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the link at post #4:

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According to Kutcherov, a leading specialist in the theory of abiogenic deep origin of petroleum, “What BP drilled into was what we call a ‘migration channel,’ a deep fault on which hydrocarbons generated in the depth of our planet migrate to the crust and are accumulated in rocks, something like Ghawar in Saudi Arabia.”[2]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A serious paper:

Dominant geological element of migration and accumulation about Silurian oil reservoirs in central Tarim

Received: 20 December 2006  Accepted: 8 May 2007  

Abstract  Based on the migration track of the Silurian oil pools along the faults in central Tarim by the nitrogen compounds and the maturity parameters of saturated hydrocarbon and aromatic hydrocarbon, the formation of the Silurian oil pools was totally concerned with vertical migration that faults were the dominant migration channels. The comprehensive analysis shows that the dominant geological element, which contributed to the migration and accumulation of the Silurian oil pools in central Tarim, was the strike-slip fault, which developed from Ordovician to Permian. The future work will focus on conducting a more intensive study of the formation, evolution and distribution of the strike-slip faults for making sure of favorable hydrocarbon accumulation and favorable exploration targets.

Keywords  hydrocarbon accumulation - vertical migration - petroleum population - nitrogen compound - fault - Tarim Basin