Origin of petroleum?
08-Feb-95 09:52:43
Sb: #166578-Origin of petroleum?
Fm: Mike Fay 73314,1330
To: Bob Easterly 74037,2751
Thanks, Bob, good discussion… looks like it is pushing the limits of what
folks here know and/or what IS known… I know from my work (environmental
health scientist) that there can be all kindsa stuff in oil, and percent
composition can be hard to know even on a crude basis, for stuff found at waste
sites… I had hoped some lab had looked at it more thoroughly with the
bio-origin end in mind but I guess not… this question is after all a
curiosity, not a necessity… perhaps you have a great idea for a new horror
movie in "Attack from the Permian Basin"… then again, anybody immersed miles
underground in an oil basin might have a little more to worry about than
anaerobic bacteria 😉