Is The Earth Actually Running Out Of Oil? | The Struggle For Oil | Spark

We are running out of honest people with common sense and compassion.

I heard this all my life from the age of eight now I’m 85 still hearing the same again and again

Most estimates say there will be available petroleum for over 300 years, but will become more difficult to process.

Yeah there is plenty of oil it's just heavy crude which is harder to refine

This is ridiculous! Two years ago we had to cap 4000 wells to keep the price from collapsing and we didn’t have any place to put!

almost 50 years ago during the oil crisis we were told there was only ten years of oil left

Recently Trinidad and Tobago had experienced earthquakes where its epicenter were offshore. They are apparently drilling deeper for hydrocarbons. Maybe earthquakes could be liberating deeper oil to migrate up. Maybe.

Always fun to see when company risks billions of dollars in order to save millions of dollars.

This documentary is a lot more unsettling when you realize it came out about a year before fracking pushed peak oil forward by years, possibly decades.

I had to listen to that twice "compressed air guns are used to scan the sea bed and and produce the loudest human made sound...the fact that whales and dolphins are affected is accepted"...and we wonder why they beach themselves bleeding out of every orifice.

I've never heard anyone discussing the voids left underground from producing oil. 150M barrels/ day ? Wouldn't this possibly cause earthquakes?

Most don't know, but the earth actually regenerates oil from vast archaic plant deposits that are continually decaying. If we only learned how ot capture sunlight like the plants did and then decay them, we'd have endless oil.

The days of abundance for light sweet crude are pretty much gone. More of the oil being pumped nowadays is heavy and sour, so it takes a lot more energy to turn it into gasoline and diesel.

I've spent the 7 years in Iraq. They believe that there is enough oil below ground to keep the engines of the world running for 100 years. True or not is not the point. The point is that they are now openly discussing how useless this will be once sustainable methods of power become cheaper and more reliable. They know that the clock is ticking and that they better use their black gold resources well now or they will be in trouble. Countries such as Saudi and UAE understand this intimately and are planning accordingly.

Now we must address other problems that need to be modified for more security on the planet .

Really remarkable and balanced documentary ! 😌🙌❤️

Need a story called: Does Social media put false conclusions and expectations in people's head? Answer: yes

Damn! Petroleum is SMART! I knows not to come to the surface if Correxit is in the vicinity. Incredible!

The increasing complex process to get any oil out now is just becoming more expensive than what it's worth

One interesting possibility with abiotic oil is the fact that if it is possible than you may be able to pump the resources necessary to get the process going like say oxygen deep underground where you want them to be produced rather than having to search for new sources.