Abiotic Oil vs Fossil Fuel: One Mocked, One Monetised—But Who’s Right?
May 1, 2025
The Origin Myth That Fuels a Global Lie
Crude oil is not a dead dinosaur cocktail. Let’s start there. Despite what textbooks, textbooks, and oil companies have parroted for over a century, the idea that petroleum is formed solely from ancient biomass—compressed fish guts, algae, and prehistoric plankton—is neither proven nor scientifically comprehensive. It’s a fairy tale turned economic doctrine.
The fossil fuel theory has been monetised, sacralized, and burned into policy because it serves one function: to enforce scarcity. And scarcity keeps prices high, consumers obedient, and the petro-elite in power.
Meanwhile, the abiotic oil theory, long ridiculed by Western academia, dares to tell a more alarming story: that hydrocarbons are not fossils, but geological outputs—born in the mantle, not from death, but from planetary chemistry.
Act 1: Fossil Fuel Theory—From Rockefeller to Rigged Reality
John D. Rockefeller wasn’t just building Standard Oil. He was building a narrative. To crush competition and monopolise oil pricing, he needed scarcity. Enter the “fossil fuel” mythos—a PR campaign laundered through Carnegie-funded science institutions, academic publishing, and later, government policy.
Carnegie Institution geologists, backed by Rockefeller dollars, promoted the fossil theory with missionary zeal. Why? Because if oil came from dead life, it had an endpoint. And if it had an endpoint, it could be taxed, speculated on, or weaponised. A finite resource becomes a limitless profit machine.
So the story went mainstream. Oil wasn’t a mineral; it was a miracle of the Carboniferous period. The absurdity was hidden by prestige. And with every textbook that taught this narrative as gospel, the lie calcified.
Act 2: The Soviet Rebuttal—Abiotic Oil in Action
While the West polished its scarcity script, Soviet scientists quietly operated from a different premise. Nikolai Kudryavtsev, in the 1950s, published the first modern articulation of the abiotic theory: that oil is a primordial, mantle-derived substance, formed through chemical reactions deep within Earth’s crust under extreme heat and pressure.
The Soviets didn’t just theorise—they drilled. And they found oil.
- The Dnieper-Donets Basin (Ukraine): Deep drilling yielded massive oil reserves in regions considered geologically sterile.
- White Tiger Field (Vietnam): Soviet engineers discovered hydrocarbons in fractured basement granite—a significant finding that dealt a blow to the sediment-only fossil model.
- Romashkino Field (Russia): Still pumping decades later, despite predictions of exhaustion.
These weren’t accidents. They were proof that oil can be generated in situ, continuously, from the Earth’s deep carbon cycle, not from the long-dead.
Act 3: The Science They Don’t Want Funded
Vladimir Kutcherov at Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology simulated mantle conditions in the lab. He combined iron oxide, calcium carbonate, and water—no biological matter. Subjected to 30 kbar pressure and 1,500 degrees Celsius, the result? Hydrocarbons.
Deep Earth chemistry, it turns out, can cook up oil. No fossils required.
Other corroborations:
- Titan (Saturn’s moon) has lakes of methane and ethane. No life. No biomass. Just abiotic hydrocarbons.
- Kola Superdeep Borehole: Detected hydrocarbon compounds miles below Earth’s surface—far too deep for any biological sediment to exist.
- Eugene Island 330 (Gulf of Mexico): Oil reservoirs thought to be declining mysteriously refilled, traced by seismic imaging to deeper sources.
And yet, mainstream geology clings to fossil orthodoxy because it supports a lucrative structure of artificial scarcity.
Act 4: Reservoir Behavior That Breaks the Fossil Model
Oil wells don’t die the way they should.
- Romashkino Field: Still producing since the 1940s.
- LaBarge Field, Wyoming: Produces gas, helium, and oil from fractured rock linked to mantle sources.
- Panhandle-Hugoton Field: Replenishing rates inconsistent with fixed biotic decay theory.
The fossil model assumes static, one-shot reservoirs. Abiotic theory explains the behaviour of migrating and regenerating geofluids. In essence, oil behaves more like water: it is pressure-driven, chemically evolving, and active over geological time.
Act 5: Scarcity is a Feature, Not a Bug
Fossil fuel theory is profitable because it imposes scarcity psychology. Fear of running out fuels hoarding, speculation, and compliance.
- 1973 Oil Crisis: Not a geological shortage, but political theatre via OPEC.
- 2008 Peak Oil Panic: Prices spiked to $147/barrel. The media blamed geology. The truth? Speculative bubbles + constrained investment.
- Fracking Boom: Supposedly, “unconventional” oil saved the U.S. from peak decline. But why was it needed at all if oil was dead?
Every panic cycles back to the same con: invent scarcity, inflate value, harvest compliance.
Act 6: Why Abiotic Theory Was Buried
Follow the incentives. If oil is abiotic, it doesn’t run out. If it doesn’t run out, it’s not expensive. And if it’s not costly, empires lose leverage.
The petro-dollar is the world’s dominant economic weapon. Scarcity is its sword.
Admitting that oil may be a mineral-like substance formed repeatedly in the mantle would undermine that model. It would flatten energy markets, change international relations, and collapse the speculative futures complex.
So, the theory wasn’t debunked. It was demonetised.
Act 7: Cognitive Leverage—Mass Psychology as a Weapon and a Shield
Scarcity works because it hijacks the human fear of loss. In behavioural economics, it’s called loss aversion: we fear losing more than we value gaining.
The fossil myth weaponises this. However, the same psychology can be turned around.
Investors who understand the lie can:
- Ignore oil panic headlines.
- Buy when others sell.
- Short fake scarcity.
- Bet on technology that assumes abundance, not shortage.
Scarcity is a mind prison. Once you reject it, you play the market from outside the box.
Act 8: The Future If Abiotic Oil Is Proven Right
Let’s run the tape forward.
If oil is continually generated:
- Climate change narratives become decoupled from panic.
- Policy focuses on usage management, not supply collapse.
- Geopolitical energy wars become obsolete.
- Developing nations gain independence.
It’s not about drilling forever. It’s about ending energy feudalism.
The fossil lie sustains artificial scarcity. Abiotic theory enables abundance with accountability.
Fossils Are for Museums. Oil Is a System.
The term “fossil fuel” is not a scientific term. It’s branding. A phrase born in a boardroom and sold as science.
Oil is not a corpse. It’s a system. A planetary process. A byproduct of Earth’s deep thermodynamic dance. And believing otherwise costs us trillions.
Abiotic oil was mocked because it broke the narrative. But in every lab, borehole, and anomalous well, the Earth keeps whispering the truth.
Listen harder.
