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Technotranscendence wrote:
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> On Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:52 AM Mike Lorrey mlorrey@datamann.com
> wrote:
> > Furthermore, there does seem to be a degree of replenishment of oil in
> > older fields. It is theorized that oil is mostly produced by
> > extremophilic bacteria deep in the ground reacting with geothermal
> > originated energy. There is a small but significant market for
> reopening
> > long abandoned wells to cheaply recover oil at lower production rates
> > which has refilled the salt domes and sand strata where oil collects
> as
> > it percolates up.
>
> I've heard this theory before, but I thought it was discredited when no
> oil was found in places like Sweden. Am I wrong? Any recent [online]
> references on this?
No references, but the amount of oil in the North Sea should be
indicative. The lack in Sweden could simply be a phenomenon of the
particular rock layers/thickness/fault structure. The science is really
too new and unexplored for this theory to generate a lot of supporting
evidence yet.
Even so, if oil is not being produced at depth all around the world, it
most certainly will tend to percolate from deeper reserves to more
shallow reserves over time, such that oil that is currently unreachable
eventually works its way up to fill previously evacuated salt domes.
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