New Insights Into Costly Destruction Of Subsurface Petroleum

[Moontanman]

New Insights Into Costly Destruction Of Subsurface Petroleum

 

ScienceDaily (Sep. 29, 2006) — Scientists are reporting an advance toward understanding and possibly combating a natural process that destroys billions of dollars worth of subsurface petroleum. Called biodegradation, it occurs as bacteria and other microbes metabolize, or feed on, organic compounds present in crude oil.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925114000.htm

[Moontanman]

New Insights Into Costly Destruction Of Subsurface Petroleum

 

ScienceDaily (Sep. 29, 2006) — Scientists are reporting an advance toward understanding and possibly combating a natural process that destroys billions of dollars worth of subsurface petroleum. Called biodegradation, it occurs as bacteria and other microbes metabolize, or feed on, organic compounds present in crude oil.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925114000.htm

 

 

This sounds a lot like what Thomas Gold theorized in his book "The Deep Hot Biosphere"