In the inherent perception of the vast majority of the population, oil is likely to come from the remains of ancient dinosaurs. After all, the theory of “biology as oil” has been in circulation for a long time, and its continuation has not yet been completely overturned and is deeply rooted in public perception. But can you believe that today's vision of a potentially destabilizing view: that oil is not the product of the evolution of ancient biological remains, but is an inorganic object derived from the earth's core
Oil organics
With regard to the current state of scientific research, with regard to the causes of oil, the academic community is divided into two main factions. One is referred to earlier as the “biological oil doctrine”, also known as the organic cause theory; the other is the central topic of today — inorganic cause. Let us start with the broadest-spread organic cause and see what its core point of view is。
The central proposition of organic reasoning is that in ancient times, the bodies and remains of a large number of plants and animals were buried deep in the ground, and in chronically high temperatures, high pressure and aerobic conditions, they could not be decomposed by micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, etc., and remained in their primitive state and could not be naturally decomposed。
In a long geological evolution, these plant and animal remains have evolved through a series of complex chemical reactions, which have led to the formation of numerous oily layers. At the same time, the raw oil layers continue to dissect substances such as nh3, h2o and co2 and slowly transform into cheese roots - this is the core material that forms oil. At the final stage, the c-c key in the cheese root broke and crude oil was born. The resulting crude oil will gradually infiltrate the surface and eventually accumulate into large oil fields, where the locals can even dig up precious crude oil by digging a sock。
Of course, organic causes are not unfounded, and they are strongly supported. For example, the fact that more than 99. 5 per cent of the world's oil and gas fields are located in organically rich sedimentary rocks is sufficient evidence that oil formation is inextricably linked to organic matter。
In addition, an updated recapitulation experiment further supports the legitimacy of organic cause. As early as 2013, scientists at the western pacific national research institute in the united states placed algae in a closed reaction container, simulated the underground high-temperature and high-pressure environment, and added large amounts of catalysts, which, in just one hour, produced biooil similar to that of natural petroleum. The same results have been obtained from repeated experiments over the years that followed, which have also strengthened the theoretical basis of organic causalism。
Oil inorganic causes
Despite widespread and well-documented allegations of organic causes, many have questioned them. As some netizens were wondering, "did all the animals and plants of ancient times die in the middle east?" why else would the oil reserves in the middle east be so large?” it is this inexplicable doubt that has allowed another set of oil-cause theories — inorganic causes — to gradually enter the horizon。
Indeed, as early as 1876, the well-known russian chemist mendeleev introduced the “carbons talk” of the inorganic causes of oil. In his view, in the early stages of earth's formation, the carbon and iron elements of the earth's surface were gradually combined to form a metal carbide, which we often call iron carbide。
As geological times move, these carbide irons will follow the cracks of the crust, slowly permeating deep into the crust and eventually blend with the underground hot groundwater. During this process, large quantities of hydrocarbons will be generated and crude oil will follow. Later, scientists, in order to validate mendeleev's theory, simulated high-temperature and high-pressure environments in the depths of the earth and eventually successfully synthesized oil。
The results of the experiment shocked the scientific community as a whole, as it directly demonstrated that oil was likely to be born in the reaction of inorganic matter, breaking the inherent perception that “oil can only be biomoderated”. It is worth mentioning that after mendeleev, another russian scientist, soklov, also proposed a more novel “cosmic oil generation doctrine”。
According to this doctrine, various hydrocarbons are already present in the earth's atmosphere when the local sphere is still melting. As the earth cooled and condensed, these hydrocarbons were absorbed by magma and, after hundreds of millions of years, slowly converted into oil in the crust. It must be said that russian scientists do have a very imaginative exploration of the oil cause。
Focus on the soviet union
Many will wonder why russia and later the soviet union are so interested in studying the inorganic causes of oil. Essentially, the former soviet union had always regarded oil as the economic lifeline of the country. If oil is really an inorganic cause, it will become an inexhaustible and inexhaustible source of energy sufficient to sustain the huge military expenditures and national economic development of the soviet union。
The former soviet union had set up an independent system of oil exploration, known as the soviet oil manhattan plan, which had been in operation for 45 years and had invested considerable human, material and financial resources to free itself from the constraints of western organic fracturing。
According to the theory of western organic factors, oil resources are simply not available in the dnieper-dnietz basin. However, in a short period of five years, 61 boreholes were drilled by former soviet researchers who were determined to explore the area, not believing in the evil. Surprisingly, 37 of these boreholes have succeeded in blowing out crude oil, an outcome that has not only hit hard at the western scientific community, but has also shaken the dominance of organic causes。
Since then, the former soviet union has continued to pursue oil exploration based on the theory of inorganic causes, raising the success rate of drilling to 100 per cent, an achievement that envious the world. In contrast to the european and american countries, exploration continues to be carried out under the organic cause doctrine, with a success rate of only 15-30 per cent. It is no exaggeration to say that the then former soviet union, in the field of oil exploration, completely suppressed the european and american countries and gained an absolute advantage。
The most important thing is that little of the oil extracted from the former soviet union has been detected in the cynics - such molecules are typical biomarkers of oil, which can only be contained in oil that has evolved from animal and plant remains. This finding further confirms that oil extracted from the former soviet union did not come from biological remains and provided the most direct practical evidence of inorganic causes。
It can be said that the former soviet union perfected the legitimacy of oil inorganic causes with its own practical achievements. To this day, the doctrine continues to prevail in the academic world, plaguing countless scientists and allowing them to continue to explore the real causes of oil。
The oil might not be enough
Let us venture to assume that if oil really originates from inorganic materials, global energy patterns will change dramatically. The most direct conclusion is that the earth's oil resources, perhaps truly endless, will never be exhausted。
This conclusion is not empty because of the enormous amount of hydrogen in the terrestrial nuclear zone. These hydrogen elements are concentrated in liquid iron in the off-site nuclear field, and have been consistently jetting powerful hydrogen streams into the surface for nearly 4. 6 billion years. With this constant “energy source”, surface oil will naturally continue to be generated and will never be depleted。
Moreover, from the current state of global oil exploitation in recent years, oil appears to be showing no real signs of depletion, but rather new surprises. In 1971, for example, the united states discovered 330 blocks of oil on the island of eugene in the gulf of mexico, at which time only 48 million cubic metres of mineable reserves were measured。
Surprisingly, as of the latest statistics, the cumulative production of the oil field had reached 210 million cubic metres, well above the initial estimates, and there was still a steady flow of crude oil to date, creating a feeling of never-ending exhaustion. There is no exception to this, as is the case in the russian roman shkin oil fields。
The oil field was discovered in 1948, with an initial estimate of 2 billion tons and, to date, more than 3. 5 billion tons of accumulated mining, still showing no signs of depletion and continued exploitation. These practical cases suggest that oil may indeed, as some scientists have said, come from a continuous application under the ground rather than from a fixed “non-renewable resource”。
From the above analysis, we can deduce that, if humanity does not enter the new energy age, the oil-rich countries of the middle east, such as saudi arabia and qatar, may indeed be able to rely on oil for the rest of their lives. This is certainly good news for these middle east countries. And what matters most to ordinary people is whether our oil prices will fall in the future if oil can never be exhausted
