What's wrong?
Because some oil wells were exploited very early and because the reserves are small.
It was quickly mined.
But after a period of time, everyone discovered that these oil wells should have been exhausted.
Oil can actually be dug out again.
Isn’t oil non-renewable?
Did it take hundreds of millions of years to form?
Why does oil come out of depleted oil wells again?
And scientists have come out and said it a long time ago.
Oil is non-renewable, and our current oil may only be able to sustain our current development for ten years.
But ten years have passed and the oil has not been used up yet.
Scientists came out and said that we have discovered a new oil field.
Oil has been discovered all over the world.
Oil is non-renewable and cannot be used by the world for more than twenty years.
The oil soon ran out.
At that time, oil prices could be said to have skyrocketed for a period of time.
Some countries that produce oil had a good time back then.
But after using it, everyone found that something seemed wrong.
The oil has not been exhausted until now, and it seems that more and more oil is being dug.
What's going on?
Why are there so many biological remains left behind?
There seems to be something wrong with this.
Ye Zhen smiled.
“It is precisely because of this that, in addition to the biological organic oil theory.
Someone put forward another theory.
That is the theory of inorganic oil formation.
Petroleum is not broken down by biological precipitation.
The hydrocarbons of petroleum originate from the depths of Blue Star.
The basis is that the gases and lava flows emitted by volcanoes contain hydrocarbons.
Chemical elements that can generate hydrocarbons are also found in magma rocks from deep underground.
But this is not the current mainstream hypothesis.
But the person who first proposed this hypothesis is more interesting.
His name is Mendeleev.
Yes, it was the one who dreamed about the periodic table of elements.
Mendeleev created the periodic table of elements and was the founder of modern chemistry.
It was he who first proposed the theory of inorganic oil formation.
But if this is the case, oil is generated by natural hydrocarbons reacting in the ground for a long time.
Doesn’t that mean that oil is a renewable resource?
It is not non-renewable as we think. ”
Some viewers seemed to have learned something.
"Capital! Everything is capital!"
"Why do they support the theory of bio-oil generation, because oil is non-renewable."
"In this way, those who sell oil can have a monopoly, and the material "Rare is more valuable."
"If you know that oil is distributed all over the world and is renewable,"
"then they can't do business."
"I'm surprised. When I was a kid, I always heard that oil is about to be exhausted and will be used up soon."
"I've been saying this for decades, but more and more oil is used."
Then Ye Zhen showed everyone the latest discovery again.
“Everyone knows Mars.
Mars has always been considered a brother planet by our Blue Star scientists.
But scientists actually discovered something similar to an oil spill on Mars.
That was one day in 2009.
Scientists discovered a barren valley on Mars through a Mars probe.
Some black liquid started to emerge.
The liquid began to emerge slowly.
What does it look like?
There are traces like an oil spill on our side of Blue Star.
But if this is oil, scientists will be dumbfounded.
Are you kidding?
Isn’t petroleum the remains of living things that have settled over time?
Mars also has oil. Does that mean there used to be a large number of living things on Mars?
Otherwise, where would the oil on Mars come from?
It was not until later that the Mars Exploration Rover successfully landed on Mars. After drilling, scientists discovered some of the black material leaking from Mars that they had discovered previously.
The ingredients are almost exactly the same as Blue Star’s oil!
This solved the mystery of the year.
Is there oil on Mars? The answer is yes.
Because oil, to put it bluntly, is nothing more than saturated hydrocarbons.
Carbon and hydrogen are the two most abundant elements in the universe.
This is the theory of petroleum cosmogenesis that was later proposed.
They believe that oil was actually in the early days of Blue Star's birth.
It is a layer of gas formed from hydrocarbons in the solar system in the initial stage of the blue star.
Then after cooling and reaction.
These hydrocarbons landed on the blue star.
Start under various surface and rain reactions.
Slowly turned into oil. "
Although Professor Yan Xin is a biologist, he still does not have a deep understanding of chemical engineering.
"I only knew two hypotheses about the origin of petroleum before. ”
“The theory of biological origin and the theory of non-biological origin. "
"Why is the current mainstream theory of biogenesis, that is, oil is precipitated from biological organisms. ”
"Because in petroleum, we have repeatedly discovered biological organic matter and various biological remains."
"All these prove that petroleum is indeed evolved from living things."
But so far, we haven't been able to recreate the birth of oil in the laboratory.
This is another experiment that requires a time unit of hundreds of millions of years.
The theory of space origin mentioned by Ye Zhen just now was actually proposed by someone later.
But no matter which hypothesis.
Now it is not enough to convince everyone.
“So how exactly oil comes from is still a mystery.” Professor Yan Xin also had to say.
There are still many things we don’t know yet.
Even the oil we use in large quantities now.
We don't know where the oil comes from.
Something similar to oil has been discovered on Mars.
It seems that it can be proved that non-biological oil is produced.
Because so far, we have not found any living things on Mars.
Since there is oil even without living things, doesn’t it mean that oil is formed by non-living things?
Later someone came up with a theory.
Oil may be the blood of the planet.
Oil is not only the blood of industry, it may also be the blood of the planet.
Some scientists have thought of creatures that could live in oil.
“There are some anaerobic bacteria that can live in the environment and make a living by decomposing oil.”
"For example, oil-loving bacteria were once used to deal with oil spills."
"There are many ancient fungi that live on oil."
"Degradation Alkane-based microorganisms are found in many kinds of petroleum. "
Could it be that this is the type of petroleum organisms that Ye Zhen is talking about?
Microorganisms that feed on alkanes?
In game 749, Song Xuan didn't understand.
“What does this have to do with the Kola ultra-deep drilling?”
“I don’t quite understand, even if it is some microorganisms that decompose oil.”
“It’s nothing. It’s something strange.”
But Ye Zhen showed everyone a photo.
"This was discovered in a tar tunnel in Mexico by Italian engineer Mino Viticino in 1965.
These creatures are dark in color, have a sticky semi-solid surface, and look like a giant python.
This is the first oil organism.
They believe that oil is produced by these organisms.
As long as these oil organisms can be kept in captivity, a continuous supply can be obtained. Oil.”
Oil bio?
Everyone was dumbfounded.
What is this?
Everyone looked like you were teasing me.
The oil creature that Ye Zhen mentioned just now is actually a kind of such thing.
But everyone has never heard of any petroleum organisms.
Because apart from this, no one has discovered the so-called petroleum organisms.
Until Kola ultra-deep drilling. (End of this chapter)