The two-session conference (abiogenic and bio-organic) featuring 14 reports in total was attended by 120 experts and a local geological press. On 18 June 2005, two vanguards of competing paradigms for the origin of oil came together in a bitter dispute.
The issue of the oil origin is one of the fundamental problems in the Earth sciences and has, in particular, the highest priority in petroleum geology, which today discusses the so-called "oil peak" - the hypothesis of the exhaustion of oil resources. Two alternative concepts answer this key question differently. In contrast to the sedimentary migration model, the abiogenic theory asserts and proves that oil (petroleum bitumen, oil, natural gas, and gas condensate) is formed from non-biological sources in the depths of the earth's mantle and crust. All the materials of the conference on oil origin are available on the AAPG Search & Discovery web portal.
All the materials of the conference on oil origin are available on the AAPG Search&Discovery web portal.