Scientific controversy
Oil is not fossil fuelAtlas
Environment & Climate · Energy industry influence
Accounts claiming petroleum and natural gas form abiotically deep in the Earth and can replenish producing fields, versus mainstream petroleum geology treating commercial oil and gas as fossil hydrocarbons generated from ancient organic matter in sedimentary basins.
Open the caseInvolved
concept
Abiotic petroleum theory
concept
Alternative-energy media
concept
Biogenic methane
concept
Commercial oil and gas fields
organization
Cornell Chronicle
event
Cornell fossil fuel investment moratorium
organization
Cornell University
concept
Deep gas hypothesis
program
Energy Kids
concept
Fossil fuel
concept
Fossil organic-origin petroleum model
concept
Hydrocarbon replenishment on human timescales
concept
Kerogen / organic source rock
concept
Nonrenewable energy classification
concept
Oil/gas field replenishment claims
concept
Organic-origin petroleum model
concept
Peak oil concept
concept
Petroleum biomarkers
concept
Petroleum system (source-reservoir-trap)
concept
Reserves growth
concept
Sedimentary basin
document
The Deep Hot Biosphere
concept
Thermogenic natural gas
person
Thomas Gold
concept
Tight oil and shale resources
person
Trevor Pinch
government agency
U.S. Department of Energy
organization
U.S. Energy Information Administration
organization
U.S. Geological Survey
On the map
Part of Fossil industry suppresses alternatives
No spokes on the map yet