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If this theory turns out to be true then environmentalists would be very put out. It
would mean that "fossil fuels" are not fossil fuels at all and that oil is a
constantly renewing source of energy. Of course the effects of burning it seem to be
just as bad regardless of origin.
On Tue, 20 February 2001, MICHAEL SPITZER wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> [I read that this very well could have been known by oil
> companies for decades. --MS]
>
> Science Frontiers, No. 124, Jul-Aug 1999, p. 3
>
> GEOLOGY
>
> The Mystery of Eugene Island 330
>
> Eugene Island is a submerged mountain in the Gulf of Mexico about
> 80 miles off the Louisiana coast. The landscape of Eugene Island
> is riven with deep fissures and faults from which spew
> spontaneous belches of gas and oil. Up on the surface, a
> platform designated Eugene Island 330 began producing about
> 15,000 barrels of oil per day in the early 1970s. By 1989, the
> flow had dwindled to 4,000 barrels per day. Then, suddenly,
> production zoomed to 13,000 barrels. In addition, estimated
> reserves rocketed from 60 to 400 million barrels. Even more
> anomalous is the discovery that the geological age of today's oil
> is quite different from that recovered 10 years ago. What's
> going on under the Gulf of Mexico?
>
> It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the oil reservoir at
> Eugene Island is rapidly refilling itself from "some continuous
> source miles below the earth's surface." In support of this
> surmise, analysis of seismic records revealed a deep fault which
> "was gushing oil like a garden hose."
>
> The deep-seated oil source at Eugene Island strongly supports T.
> Gold's theory about *The Deep Hot Biosphere*. Gold holds:
>
> that oil is actually a renewable, primordial syrup continually
> manufactured by the earth under ultrahot conditions and
> tremendous pressures. As this substance migrates toward
> the surface, it is attacked by bacteria, making it appear
> to have an organic origin dating back to the dinosaurs.
>
> The apparent deep-seated oil source at Eugene Island and Gold's
> ideas make petroleum engineers wonder about a similar situation
> at the seemingly inexhaustible oil fields of the Middle East.
>
> The Middle East has more than doubled its reserves in the
> past 20 years, despite half a century of intense exploitation
> and relatively few new discoveries. It would take a pretty
> big pile of dead dinosaurs and prehistoric plants to account
> for the estimated 660 billion barrels of oil in the region,
> notes Norman Hyne, a professor at the University of Tulsa
> in Oklahoma. "Off-the-wall theories often turn out to be
> right," he says.
>
> (Cooper, Christopher; "It's No Crude Joke: This Oil Field Grows
> Even as It's Tapped," *Wall Street Journal*, April 16, 1999.
> Cr. C. Casale.)
>
>
>
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