Where does crude oil come from?  Is it really the fossil fuel, composed of the residue of fossilized dinosaur remains that most American or British geologists claim it is? This makes crude oil limited in supply. Is this true? Should we be drilling now?

An entirely alternative theory of oil formation has existed since the early 1950’s in Russia, almost unknown to the West. It claims conventional fossilized dinosaur remains is an unscientific absurdity and it can’t be proved. They site  the fact that western geologists have repeatedly predicted limited crude oil supply over the past century, only to then find more, lots more.

The emergence of Russia and prior of the USSR as the world’s largest crude oil producer and natural gas producer has been based on the application of the theory in practice. This has geopolitical consequences of staggering magnitude. Take the recent invasion of former USSR stete of Georgia which has oil pipelines and the Russians potential eyeing of Ukrainian oil.

When Did the Russians Develop This Alternative Theory and Why? 

the Soviet Union faced ‘Iron Curtain’ isolation from the West in the 1950’s . The Cold War was in high gear. Russia had little crude oil to fuel its economy. Finding sufficient oil in their own country was a national security priority.

Scientists at the Institute of the Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Ukraine Academy of Sciences began an inquiry in the late 1940’to find out where does crude oil come from?

Prof. Vladimir Porfir’yev announced the results of their investigations in the late 1950’s. He claimed that ‘Crude oil and natural petroleum gas have no intrinsic connection with biological matter originating near the surface of the earth. They are primordial materials which have been erupted from great depths.’ Western orthodox geology had turned upside down by the Soviet scientists. Their theory of oil origin was classified as the ‘a-biotic’ theory—non-biological—to show the difference from the Western biological theory of origins.

If correct, crude oil supply on earth would be limited only by the amount of hydrocarbon constituents found deep in the earth at the time of the earth’s formation. technology to drill ultra-deep wells and explore into the earth’s inner regions would be the determinant of the availability of oil. According to this theory old fields could be revived to continue producing, so called self-replenishing fields. According to Soviet research oil is formed deep in the earth, formed in conditions of very high temperature and very high pressure, like that required in order for diamonds to form. ‘Oil is a primordial material of deep origin which is transported at high pressure via ‘cold’ eruptive processes into the crust of the earth,’ Porfir’yev stated. Biological residue of plant and animal fossil was dismissed by his team as a hoax designed to continue the myth of a finite supply.

Defying conventional geology

The Russian and Ukrainian radically different scientific approach to the discovery of crude oil allowed them to develop huge gas and oil discoveries in regions previously judged unsuitable. The new petroleum theory was used in the early 1990’s, well after the the USSR had fallen apart, to drill for oil and gas in a region believed for more than forty-five years, to be barren of oil. This was the Dnieper-Donets Basin between Russia and Ukraine.

Sixty one wells were drilled in all, of which thirty seven were productive commercially. This was an extremely impressive exploration success rate of almost sixty percent. The size of the field discovered compared with the North Slope of Alaska.  US wildcat drilling was considered successful with a ten percent success rate in comparison. Nine of ten wells are typically “dry holes.”

The is discovery of finding oil and gas was tightly wrapped in the usual Soviet veil of state security during the Cold War era. It went largely unknown to Western geophysicists, who continued to teach fossil origins and  the severe physical limits of petroleum. After the 2003 Iraq war it slowly began to dawn on some strategists in and around the Pentagon, that the Russian geophysicists might be on to something of profound strategic importance.

If Russia had the scientific know-how and Western geology did not, Russia had a strategic trump card of amazing geopolitical importance. It was not surprising that Washington erected a “wall of steel”, which consisted of a network of military bases and ballistic anti-missile shields around Russia, to cut her pipeline and port links to western Europe, China and the rest of Eurasia. The US grab for the vast crude oil riches of Iraq and, potentially, of Iran, resulted in a  closer cooperation between traditional Eurasian foes, China and Russia. Western Europe was gradually realizing that their options were also dwindling.

During the 1960’s when American multinational corporations were busy gaining control of easy access to the large oil fields of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran and other areas of cheap, the Russians were busy testing their theory. They began drilling in a supposedly barren region of Siberia. There they developed eleven major oil fields and one Giant field based on their deep ‘a-biotic’ geological estimates.

In the 1980s the Russians went to Vietnam and offered to finance drilling costs to show their theory did work. The Russian company Petrosov drilled in Vietnam’s White Tiger oilfield offshore into basalt rock some 17,000 feet down and extracted 6,000 barrels a day of oil to feed the energy-starved Vietnam economy

Dr. J. F. Kenney is one of the only few Western geophysicists who has taught and worked in Russia and who studied under Vladilen Krayushkin, the developer of the deep “abiotic” theory and the developer of the huge Dnieper-Donets Basin.

Hard scientific proof of the fossil origin of crude oil is not offered by Western geologists. It is just considered to be holy truth. Volumes of scientific papers, most in Russian have been produced but the dominant Western journals have no interest in publishing this revolutionary view. Careers, entire academic professions would be at risk.

Last Chance is Lost

Russian Mikhail Khodorkovsky of Yukos Crude Oil was arrested in 2003, just before he could sell a dominant stake in Yukos to ExxonMobil after a private meeting with Dick Cheney. Had Exxon succeeded in this grab they would have control of the world’s largest resource of geologists and engineers, trained in the a-biotic techniques of deep drilling.

Western knowledge of this scientific discovery has markedly decreased since 2003. Offers in the early 1990’s to share their knowledge with US and other oil geophysicists was met with cold rejection according to American geophysicists involved.