«Geology, geophysics and development of oil and gas fields»

Fossil fuel resources

UDC: 550.8:622.276
DOI: 10.33285/2413-5011-2023-12(384)-58-62

Authors:

¹ Oil and Gas Research Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Keywords: fossil fuel, hydrogen, organic theory, degassing of the Earth, renewable hydrocarbon resources

Annotation:

The term "fossil fuel" refers to oil, gas, coal, oil shale. Hydrogen as a fossil fuel has been recently considered more and more often. In southern Australia, they even began to issue licenses for searching and prospecting of hydrogen accumulations.

Currently, the main hypothesis of fossil fuels origin is the organic theory, which implies the origin of fossil hydrocarbon fuels as a product of catagenesis (the late stage of diagenesis) of organic sediments. However, by now, a huge amount of the data has been obtained, indicating the significant possibility of fossil fuels inorganic origin. On the one hand, idea development concept is based on the fact that hydrocarbons generation occurs in the deep layers of the Earth due to inorganic synthesis. On the other hand, more than 40 years ago, a discovery of previously unknown phenomenon of transformation of the organic matter of sedimentary rocks under the influence of tectonic and seismic processes of the Earth’s crust due to mechanical-chemical reactions, arising under the action of variables mechanical stresses, was experimentally established and registered.

The theory of different cycles of the carbon cycle on the Earth, developed in the latest two decades, in combination with the above-said, allows making a conclusion that the planet’s hydrocarbon resources are renewable under certain conditions and considering hydrogen as a fossil fuel.

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