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To: cyesp who wrote (72958)	10/8/2006 8:48:57 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 206188

The reservoir, seal and trap need to be present if the source is dead dinosaurs, abiotic, or space aliens. Which means once we have have tapped every reservoir we can economically tap, we are in the peak oil sceanario, no matter what the source of the oil was. I think there are some people who have calculated that the flow rate for abiotic natural gas is roughly like that for helium or radon - very low. Maybe much less than 1 Mcf per square mile per year. So it would take more that 4 million years to re-create a 1 Bcf deposit on a well with 160 acre spacing. Those numbers are probably high by 100 x... The abiotic gas would also bee seeping around the edges of the trap as the reservoir filled up. So while abiotic gas make have created some nice deposits in areas without source rock, I don't think it will bail us out from expensive oil and gas. ******* What is interesting, looking at something like the fracturing of Barnett Shale, or Coal Bed Methane, is we are now able to mine what would have been the source rock.... By learning to fracture Barnett shale, mere rock has been turned into a resource, one that happens to be locate right under a huge network of gas pipelines in about 12 counties in Texas....pretty k00l !