In the 1950s a group of Soviet scientists was tasked with making the
USSR self-sufficient in oil and gas as the Cold War heated up. The first
step in their research was to critically investigate all known
scientific literature on origins of hydrocarbons. As they looked closely
at the so-called fossil fuel theory of oil, they were amazed how
unscientific it was. One physicist estimated that for the huge oil that
has come out of one giant well, Ghawar, in Saudi Arabia, it would
require a block of dead dinosaurs, assuming 100% conversion of meat and
bone to oil, that would reach 19 miles wide, deep and high. They soon
looked for other explanations for the birth of oil.
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