With the Atlantic being a shallow basin at the time of the formation of most of the world's oil, is it reasonable to think that oil exists way out in the middle of the ocean away from the continental shelf? Is the north sea find on continental shelf? Do you think we are at, past or near worldwide peak oil, at least conventional oil? Do you think the industry can continue to grow production with such heavy declines on existing wells and moving into more and more challenging environments?
@christo930 The ocean spreads from the center out so the sediments of the young ocean are found close to the major land bodies. The result is that there is little chance of oil away from the continental shelf. Mass transport deposits may lead to discoveries in the slope in the near future. The passive margin under the ocean is where one would expect to find commercial oil and gas deposits. The North sea is not a continental shelf. It has a complicated geological history.
@EasyEs So the farther from the continental shelf you get the younger the sea floor is and the lower the chance that there are oil/gas deposits, and that the then young ocean floor, through oceanic ridges, has shifted or moved the then young sea floor closer to the continental shelf?
@christo930 The rocks of the ocean basins are older as one moves farther from the spreading ridges, like the mid-Atlantic Ridge. Proximity ot continetal margins has little to do with it. The oldest oceanic rocks, found in the northwestern Pacific, are of late Jurassic age.
@WildwoodClaire1 I just assumed that that the continental margins were once from the ridge so that the ridge would be the youngest and the margin the oldest As you can tell, I am rather ignorant of geology. Thanks for your reply.
@christo930 You are welcome. The continental margins represent the edges of continental land masses and are underlain by granitic rocks quite different, and less dense than the basaltic rocks of the ocean basins.
@christo930 No. It just is not a depositional environment. Well it is but just not a very active one. There are very small amounts of fine muds being put down at a slow slow rate but that isn't enough to create the elements of a petroleum system.
I just got back from a service call in Texas. Stopped in at the Natural Science Museum there and now I understand a little more about why there are so many chemical plants in the Houston aria. They drill for the sodium chloride in the salt domes and for the oil and natural gas that collects around them. Always interesting to know why the mines and wells are in the places our customers are located.
I love how you make science accessible and understandable to those of us who do not have a scientific background. And you do it with such good humor too!
I love watching all the religious drive to church every week, burning fossil fuels that prove their church trip and time there, pretty telling of how hypocritical one can become when full of holy bullshit.
God put it there to give use 'clean and safe' American jobs! YeeeeeeHAW!
....
But seriously, those Gas and Oil Company ads are soo misleading and just utterly false.. makes me want to vomit each time I have the displeasure of watching them.
Great show. I really enjoy your channel and your ed vids. So much so, I'm thinking about taking more science classes at my local college this coming semester(biology, earth science and even chemistry). Thank you for being an inspiration. I hope you had a great turkey day. :)
Funny fellow is Mr Snelling. How does a seemingly capable real-world geologist start talking utter bollocks like this. It seems he only believes in a young earth part time. Check out the article "Will the Real Dr Snelling Please Stand Up?" on noanswersingenesis. The most frustrating thing about hearing him talk is that he must know the many obvious objections to the crap he says but he chooses to lie by omission in failing to address them. Ken Ham must be very proud.
Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side. She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing. 2nd Kings 4
That seismic image of the salt dome sure looks alot like a jar,
Only one question....Why have I waited so long to subscribe.In the middle of this vid I became aware I was learning something.This made me exited ,but also disturbed my train of thought.Rewind watch again.Gotta love a the internet.
Science is good. Either that or it's a conspiracy against jesus. I'm reserving judgement until I devote sufficient attention to both sides of the controversy.
Very interesting. I wonder if mankind has reached that tipping point whereby we've used more oil than we've got left.? It aint gonna last forever is it!!
@bonnie43uk: Long ago passed the point for "economic" oil. We'll run out soon enough and be reduced to going after the shales, sands and other oil deposits. That marginal stuff will last a short while and then we'll have to actually recycle plastics and go for coal to oil on a big scale as well as develop alternate energy for real (and not as a sop for easilly gulled econauts).
@bonnie43uk 1/2 Difficult to say.. in terms of total hydrocarbons, we're nowhere near having used half of them, but as the easiest stuff is exploited first the average difficulty of exploiting the remainder is ever-increasing. A quite convincing argument can be made that we've passed the point where oil is an economic resource (possibly in around 2003), but we're still stuck with it due to lack of investment in alternatives due to flaws in the world economic system.
@bimblinghill 2/2 Flaws including 'net present value' discount rates being too high, meaning that the returns on capital investments in the future are neglected (and future environmental damage due to climate change is also discounted). As a feature of renewable energy generation is generally high up-front costs and lower ongoing cost than fossil generation, these rates tend to steer investment away from renewables.
Great video Clair, I hope you touch on Thomas Golds book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" in your video about abiotic oil. I have read his book several times, I own a copy, and he makes some pretty good points I'd like to see refuted. Of course after seeing your videos now I question my own ability to understand what is being said since you make perfect sense....
The planned video about the abiotic origin of oil might turn out to be longer than you think, since that idea is such a pet claim of countless creationists.
@AcanLord No, it is is a complex of hydrocarbons thought to be of biogenic origin based on physical evidence. Some hydrocarbons can be formed abiotically. For example, abiotic methane is expelled by volcanoes. Abiotic methane is also found outside the Earth, for example in great abundance in the atmosphere of Titan. Some scietnists have proposed that methane from the mantle is converted into longer chain hydrocarbons in Earth's crust.
@WildwoodClaire1 That is sort of what i ment to say. that it is biogenic.. i`ve never heard of oil forming in other ways. All though i do seem to recall that methane is present on titan from somewhere.
@Moontanman Speaking of marine invertebrates, I have a clip of Andrew Snelling calling brachiopods "clams" and bryozons "corals." I think that says it all about the quality of the man's education.
@WildwoodClaire1 Corals (I grow them as a hobby) are another example i often use to show the flood could not have happened as well, all coral would have died, as well as all freshwater fish and most marine creatures from plankton to top level predators could not have survived the salinity of the oceans changing so drastically so fast, I know i'm preaching to the choir here, sorry...
@Moontanman Not to mention whole genera of fish that will asphyxiate if the water temperature goes much above 4C. (Check them out, they're collectively called ice fish. They don't have blood. Instead, they have circulatory fluid that's like blood, but with no erythrocytes. They get away with it because they're cold enough that the fluid carries enough oxygen that their relatively slow metabolism is adequately supplied.)
@WildwoodClaire1 From what I understand, the oil sands are extremely young oil (in geologic terms), and it has the typical features of such oil, such as very high levels of sulfur and nitrogen (regular crude oil is pretty nasty, but this stuff is some of the nastiest stuff going). There's no cap stratum on the stuff to speak of over a large portion of the deposit in Alberta, with just loose till and muskeg. If there was a cap stratum, the ice sheet cleared it quite effectively.
@WildwoodClaire1 IIRC the oil sands are a number of stacked channel sands. Some of these packages are sealed but others are uncovered and exposed. I am a young petroleum geo. PM me any questions you may have.
Thanks, Claire, seriously. I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you put in to these. I respect your commitment. After all, isn' this National Football Day? And you've uploaded! I'm not saying you EDITED today, but you did upload! LOL It's a lot of work, putting this stuff together. Just thanks
With the Atlantic being a shallow basin at the time of the formation of most of the world's oil, is it reasonable to think that oil exists way out in the middle of the ocean away from the continental shelf? Is the north sea find on continental shelf? Do you think we are at, past or near worldwide peak oil, at least conventional oil? Do you think the industry can continue to grow production with such heavy declines on existing wells and moving into more and more challenging environments?
christo930 2 months ago
@christo930 The ocean spreads from the center out so the sediments of the young ocean are found close to the major land bodies. The result is that there is little chance of oil away from the continental shelf. Mass transport deposits may lead to discoveries in the slope in the near future. The passive margin under the ocean is where one would expect to find commercial oil and gas deposits. The North sea is not a continental shelf. It has a complicated geological history.
EasyEs 2 months ago in playlist Claire's Geology
@EasyEs So the farther from the continental shelf you get the younger the sea floor is and the lower the chance that there are oil/gas deposits, and that the then young ocean floor, through oceanic ridges, has shifted or moved the then young sea floor closer to the continental shelf?
christo930 2 months ago
@christo930 The rocks of the ocean basins are older as one moves farther from the spreading ridges, like the mid-Atlantic Ridge. Proximity ot continetal margins has little to do with it. The oldest oceanic rocks, found in the northwestern Pacific, are of late Jurassic age.
WildwoodClaire1 2 months ago
@WildwoodClaire1 I just assumed that that the continental margins were once from the ridge so that the ridge would be the youngest and the margin the oldest As you can tell, I am rather ignorant of geology. Thanks for your reply.
christo930 2 months ago
@christo930 You are welcome. The continental margins represent the edges of continental land masses and are underlain by granitic rocks quite different, and less dense than the basaltic rocks of the ocean basins.
WildwoodClaire1 2 months ago
@christo930 No. It just is not a depositional environment. Well it is but just not a very active one. There are very small amounts of fine muds being put down at a slow slow rate but that isn't enough to create the elements of a petroleum system.
EasyEs 2 months ago
I just got back from a service call in Texas. Stopped in at the Natural Science Museum there and now I understand a little more about why there are so many chemical plants in the Houston aria. They drill for the sodium chloride in the salt domes and for the oil and natural gas that collects around them. Always interesting to know why the mines and wells are in the places our customers are located.
foxlake02 3 months ago
You have to start giving the links to your songs. They are hilarious!
Jahaison 3 months ago
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Your video inspired me to go onto co-own.co site and buy the item of my dreams with the help of other co-owners.
chrchase1 3 months ago
I love how you make science accessible and understandable to those of us who do not have a scientific background. And you do it with such good humor too!
dulceypeligroso 3 months ago
So how did our oil end up under everyone else's land?
Benwoodruff 3 months ago
I love watching all the religious drive to church every week, burning fossil fuels that prove their church trip and time there, pretty telling of how hypocritical one can become when full of holy bullshit.
saxmanchiro 3 months ago
That was fascinating and enjoyable!
AuntieDiluvian 3 months ago
You can lead a Creationist to research but you can't make them think. XD
MistressArte 3 months ago 2
"Hi youtubers". Really? Now I am a malcontent.
code933k 3 months ago
I love this woman. Too funny.
MachOverspeedsPlace 3 months ago
Time for me to get glasses? I read "crap rock" in one of the pictures showing where oil can be found.
breakaleg10 3 months ago
Bad ass Claire. Science + a hint of creatard ass kicking.
SecularMentat 3 months ago
God put it there to give use 'clean and safe' American jobs! YeeeeeeHAW!
....
But seriously, those Gas and Oil Company ads are soo misleading and just utterly false.. makes me want to vomit each time I have the displeasure of watching them.
MrZash313 3 months ago
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MrZash313 3 months ago
The diagram at 4:17 reminds me of a tooth pushing up through the gums.
justicetrooper 3 months ago
Great show. I really enjoy your channel and your ed vids. So much so, I'm thinking about taking more science classes at my local college this coming semester(biology, earth science and even chemistry). Thank you for being an inspiration. I hope you had a great turkey day. :)
FreeformTao 3 months ago
Black gold. Texas tea.
Enjoyed this-txs
phenixwryter 3 months ago
Funny fellow is Mr Snelling. How does a seemingly capable real-world geologist start talking utter bollocks like this. It seems he only believes in a young earth part time. Check out the article "Will the Real Dr Snelling Please Stand Up?" on noanswersingenesis. The most frustrating thing about hearing him talk is that he must know the many obvious objections to the crap he says but he chooses to lie by omission in failing to address them. Ken Ham must be very proud.
2cabs2toucan 3 months ago
Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side. She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.” But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing. 2nd Kings 4
That seismic image of the salt dome sure looks alot like a jar,
geology-schmeolgy ! ; )
SaintCog 3 months ago
@SaintCog Are you implying biblical foreknowledge of geology in the bible? I think your joking...but I gotta be sure.
orge121 3 months ago
Thank you for this explanation.
The range of expertise among you-tube debunkers and your willingness to share knowledge with us laymen is amazing.
Thanks again and take care
akylae101 3 months ago
Oil, salt, and Das Boot - it all goes very well together.
Pichounator 3 months ago
Love the 'Hand Of The Almighty" tune by John R. Butler! ; )
yeshuahfullofit 3 months ago
@yeshuahfullofit a song which I ALWAYS mis-identify as "God Will Fuck You Up."
WildwoodClaire1 3 months ago
Really? There are people who say salt domes don't exist? Whoa....and thanks for the vid!
felixthehuman 3 months ago
@felixthehuman it's hard to believe such people exist until you run into them.
tristbjorn 3 months ago
Only one question....Why have I waited so long to subscribe.In the middle of this vid I became aware I was learning something.This made me exited ,but also disturbed my train of thought.Rewind watch again.Gotta love a the internet.
yourfullofsheite 3 months ago
Science is good. Either that or it's a conspiracy against jesus. I'm reserving judgement until I devote sufficient attention to both sides of the controversy.
no2religions 3 months ago
Great stuff. I feel right edumacated. Glad I went back to watch part a..
I find the salt domes most interesting. It is remarkable how solid substances can become plastic under pressure.
I've always wanted to tour a working salt mine.
MacNutz2 3 months ago
BRAVO!! But it so smart it makes my head hurt XD
pigwigpa 3 months ago
Thank you Claire! I'm looking forward to seeing more of your videos on geology.
BigFatHeretic 3 months ago
Very interesting. I wonder if mankind has reached that tipping point whereby we've used more oil than we've got left.? It aint gonna last forever is it!!
bonnie43uk 3 months ago
@bonnie43uk: Long ago passed the point for "economic" oil. We'll run out soon enough and be reduced to going after the shales, sands and other oil deposits. That marginal stuff will last a short while and then we'll have to actually recycle plastics and go for coal to oil on a big scale as well as develop alternate energy for real (and not as a sop for easilly gulled econauts).
RyuDarragh 3 months ago
@bonnie43uk 1/2 Difficult to say.. in terms of total hydrocarbons, we're nowhere near having used half of them, but as the easiest stuff is exploited first the average difficulty of exploiting the remainder is ever-increasing. A quite convincing argument can be made that we've passed the point where oil is an economic resource (possibly in around 2003), but we're still stuck with it due to lack of investment in alternatives due to flaws in the world economic system.
bimblinghill 3 months ago
@bimblinghill 2/2 Flaws including 'net present value' discount rates being too high, meaning that the returns on capital investments in the future are neglected (and future environmental damage due to climate change is also discounted). As a feature of renewable energy generation is generally high up-front costs and lower ongoing cost than fossil generation, these rates tend to steer investment away from renewables.
bimblinghill 3 months ago
Huzzah! My field of study.
micometer 3 months ago
Great video Clair, I hope you touch on Thomas Golds book "The Deep Hot Biosphere" in your video about abiotic oil. I have read his book several times, I own a copy, and he makes some pretty good points I'd like to see refuted. Of course after seeing your videos now I question my own ability to understand what is being said since you make perfect sense....
Moontanman 3 months ago
Very interesting. Thanks!
SiriusMined 3 months ago
Happy Turkey Day Clare! Nothing like idiots to make your day. Hope you are as stuffed as I am!
WanderingTaoist101 3 months ago
The planned video about the abiotic origin of oil might turn out to be longer than you think, since that idea is such a pet claim of countless creationists.
KaroKoenich 3 months ago
@KaroKoenich Including Emil Silvestru. I'm planning a pwnage video on him. However, having watched Andrew Snelling, that video may be a two-fer.
WildwoodClaire1 3 months ago
@KaroKoenich It's also, curiously, a favorite among some branches of the Communist religion-substitute.
evensgrey 3 months ago
@KaroKoenich wait.... how can oil be abiotic? Oil by its very deffinition its bio chemical.
AcanLord 3 months ago
@AcanLord No, it is is a complex of hydrocarbons thought to be of biogenic origin based on physical evidence. Some hydrocarbons can be formed abiotically. For example, abiotic methane is expelled by volcanoes. Abiotic methane is also found outside the Earth, for example in great abundance in the atmosphere of Titan. Some scietnists have proposed that methane from the mantle is converted into longer chain hydrocarbons in Earth's crust.
WildwoodClaire1 3 months ago
@WildwoodClaire1 That is sort of what i ment to say. that it is biogenic.. i`ve never heard of oil forming in other ways. All though i do seem to recall that methane is present on titan from somewhere.
AcanLord 3 months ago
With the loss of brain cells a huge flood may possibly explain soda lakes, but what about all that fresh water and the associated life?
deepashtray 3 months ago
@deepashtray I shut down creationists by simply asking how echinoderms and aquatic amphibians survived the flood....
Moontanman 3 months ago
@Moontanman You know you're getting to them when the other end of the line goes dead.
deepashtray 3 months ago
@Moontanman Speaking of marine invertebrates, I have a clip of Andrew Snelling calling brachiopods "clams" and bryozons "corals." I think that says it all about the quality of the man's education.
WildwoodClaire1 3 months ago
@WildwoodClaire1 Corals (I grow them as a hobby) are another example i often use to show the flood could not have happened as well, all coral would have died, as well as all freshwater fish and most marine creatures from plankton to top level predators could not have survived the salinity of the oceans changing so drastically so fast, I know i'm preaching to the choir here, sorry...
Moontanman 3 months ago
@Moontanman Not to mention whole genera of fish that will asphyxiate if the water temperature goes much above 4C. (Check them out, they're collectively called ice fish. They don't have blood. Instead, they have circulatory fluid that's like blood, but with no erythrocytes. They get away with it because they're cold enough that the fluid carries enough oxygen that their relatively slow metabolism is adequately supplied.)
evensgrey 3 months ago
@evensgrey yeah, the deeper you get into it the sillier it gets....
Moontanman 3 months ago
@evensgrey so many fails it's hard to find anything that would have survived but all the animals on the ark were vegetarians.....
Moontanman 3 months ago
So something like the Alberta oil sands would be the result of the oil not meeting an impervious layer on its rise?
StrongBlair 3 months ago
@StrongBlair I don't know much about the Alberta oil sands. I'll try and find out something about them for you.
WildwoodClaire1 3 months ago
@WildwoodClaire1 From what I understand, the oil sands are extremely young oil (in geologic terms), and it has the typical features of such oil, such as very high levels of sulfur and nitrogen (regular crude oil is pretty nasty, but this stuff is some of the nastiest stuff going). There's no cap stratum on the stuff to speak of over a large portion of the deposit in Alberta, with just loose till and muskeg. If there was a cap stratum, the ice sheet cleared it quite effectively.
evensgrey 3 months ago
@WildwoodClaire1 IIRC the oil sands are a number of stacked channel sands. Some of these packages are sealed but others are uncovered and exposed. I am a young petroleum geo. PM me any questions you may have.
EasyEs 2 months ago in playlist Claire's Geology
Ol' Jed's a millionaire!
RadarKat73080 3 months ago
Thanks for this, Claire!
80jasey 3 months ago
Great vid Claire! I absolutely love your geology videos. Learn something new every time.
CATMAHAT 3 months ago
but intruth claire you are well done in you vids
pendleton42 3 months ago
This is why I'm subscribed to your channel. Thanks for more awesome geology videos Claire!
johntheother 3 months ago 20
Thanks, Claire, seriously. I sincerely appreciate the time and effort you put in to these. I respect your commitment. After all, isn' this National Football Day? And you've uploaded! I'm not saying you EDITED today, but you did upload! LOL It's a lot of work, putting this stuff together. Just thanks
rriverstone1 3 months ago 2
plankton , yummy but gooy when out of date :)
jmm1233 3 months ago
@jmm1233 but soylent green is people
pendleton42 3 months ago
@pendleton42 only the finest goes into SG , no homeless allowed
jmm1233 3 months ago
I wonder if we will run out of oil and coal before we pollute the planet so much that we render it uninhabitable.
ndrthrdr1 3 months ago
@ndrthrdr1 The planet will always be habitable (at least as long as the sun lasts) the question is how fit it will be for human life.
happyjesus123 3 months ago
great vid Claire. wahooooo.
just sayin.
lardo444 3 months ago