Fossil fuel: Now without the fossils-Just dig deeper, say boffins

The Register ^ | 10th September 2009 16:02 GMT | Andrew Orlowski

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More bad news for the Peak Oil doomsday cult. Russian boffins say they have proved that fossil fuels can be created synthetically by replicating the high pressure, high temperature conditions found in the upper parts of the Earth's crust.

The scientists, at the Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology and the Royal Insitutue of Technology in Stockholm published their work in June. Under conditions of the upper mantle of the Earth's Crust, methane reacts to produce ethane, propane and butane. It means fossils aren't needed to produce oil and gas.

While the raw materials to produce synthetic fuels may be cheap, the energy required may not be; instead, the scientists are advocating the discovery is used to aid conventional drilling, rather than surface level production of synthetic fossil fuels. Prospectors will be able to drill more accurately, by 20 to 70 per cent, the team estimates.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Ernest........ Great minds :-)

Easier to find oil ( Abiogenic ? )

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach.

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[Quix]

Been saying such things a long time.

The North Slope pastor and friends there were quite convincing.

AS was a book decades ago about secret reserves of great proportions in the Dakotas.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hush - You’re not supposed to ask how oil can be discovered that deep - when the earth was sterile when rocks that deep (Grand Canyon depth and below!) were being formed. 8<)