I have heard about oil wells refilling andI am vaguely familiar with the deep earth gas theory
Bev, that's the stuff of Coast to Coast and is basically utter bunk.
If oil or gas were abundant in the mantle of the earth, then would we
not expect that in places where the mantle is close to the surface (such as Hawaii and Yellowstone) we'd find abundant oil and gas? In fact, we find none.
The oil and coal we use containes a predictable amount of decayed carbon 14 showing that it was at one time alive. If the oil's source
were abiotic, it would be all carbon 12.
The abiotic oil theories find their origin in the fact that most people find the end of the oil age to be unacceptable.
There are a few very minor oil fields that seem to have 'refilled'. What your page does not admit to is that when they were pumped out and depleted for a second time, they did not refill. The source of the "refill" has been identified as seepage, not abiotic oil.
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