1996/10/15 by Samar Abbas, Abbas, Samar
Energy · Engineering · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics (physics.geo-ph) #Global Energy and Sustainability Research #Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis #physics.ao-ph #physics.geo-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9610011
20 pages in Latex file
arxiv created 1996/10/15 · openalex publication_date 1996/10/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent advances in interdisciplinary fields as diverse as astrophysics, cosmogeophysics, nuclear geology, etc. have led to interesting developments in the non-organic theory of the genesis of petroleum. This theory, which holds that petroleum is of an abiogenic primordial origin, provides an explanation for certain features of petroleum geology that are hard to explain within the standard organic framework. If the non-organic theory is correct, then hydrocarbon reserves would be enormous and almost inexhaustable.