Squirt, the Heavy Oil drop says, Welcome! Did you know that you and I are related? Yes,
we’re both based on carbon. I’m a hydrocarbon and you’re a carbon based
life form. That’s what gave scientists the clue that petroleum actually
derives from living plants and animals.
Way back in the Lower Cretaceous Period, like 100 million years
ago, there were lush jungles and the seas teemed with plant and animal life. When some of
these plants and animals got covered with sand or mud, the process of becoming petroleum
had begun. Sometimes this was due to mud slides, or shifting sand dunes, or even volcano
blasts or meteors colliding with Earth and throwing up big clouds of dust. The deposits
built up, layer upon layer, preventing further decay, and as layers were added on top, the
pressure exerted by this overburden increased.
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See the Geological Column Under Lloydminster (from surface to 3000+
meters)
Examine the Geology Under Lloydminster (Sketch of Oil Bearing Zones)
Review the Diagram of the Geological Ages
Recent advances in Isotope
Geochemistry allows for the identification of the source(s) of water in oil
or natural gas wells.
