Abiogenic theory

The abiogenic theory suggests that very large quantities of natural gas exist deep within the Earth and migrate upward through cracks and fissures. Deep gas is believed to lie at depths of 15,000 to 30,000 ft. Natural gas is a mixture of hydrocarbon and nonhydrocarbon gases found in porous underground formations. Raw natural gas may be subclassified as follows ... 

Wang, X., 1994. Abiogenic natural gases. In Theory and Application of Gas Genetics. Scientific Press, Beijing, pp. 15-24 (in Chinese). 

Gold, Thomas (1920-2004) Austrian-born astrophysicist, a professor of astronomy at Cornell University he was one of the most prominent exponents postulating a theory on the abiogenic formation of fossil fuels. 

Kudryavtsev, Nikolai Alexandrovich - KygpaBaeB, HHKOJiafl AjieKcaHApoBin (1893-1971) Russian geologist, the founder of the modern theories of abiogenic petroleum formation. 1941 professor in Leningrad. 

Briefly, the Hubbert theory of peak oil assumes that petroleum reserves will not be replenished (i.e., that abiogenic replenishment is negligible) and predicts that future world petroleum production must inevitably reach a peak and then decline as these reserves are exhausted (Speight, 2011a,b and references cited therein). Controversy surronnds the theory since predictions for the time of the global peak is dependent on the past production and discovery data used in the calculation. 

The experimental results obtained by independent groups of researchers in the different laboratories discussed above confirm one of the main postulates of the theory of the abyssal abiogenic origin of petroleum complex hydrocarbon systems could be spontaneously generated deeply in the Earth under the upper mantle conditions. 

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