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U.S. Has 'Likely' Become the World's Biggest Oil Producer

TIME

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The U.S. energy agency estimated that the United States produced an average of 10.9 million barrels a day in August, compared with about 10.8 million barrels a day by Russia and around 10.4 million from Saudi Arabia.

But...
In 2017, the United States consumed a total of 7.26 billion barrels of petroleum products, an average of about 19.88 million barrels per day.
-mort

I think "produced" isn't as accurate as "extracted".

I just posted this in the Consensus thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGRIlFFJ63k

Producing the most is not the same as having the most.

I completely accept his explanation of where that oil comes from. There's more biomass by volume in the Earth's crust than on it.

That makes sense as there are way more creatures that have died than are currently living, or recently deceased.

Quote:

We find that the kingdoms of life concentrate at different locations on the planet; plants (≈450 Gt C, the dominant kingdom) are primarily terrestrial, whereas animals (≈2 Gt C) are mainly marine, and bacteria (≈70 Gt C) and archaea (≈7 Gt C) are predominantly located in deep subsurface environments. We show that terrestrial biomass is about two orders of magnitude higher than marine biomass and estimate a total of ≈6 Gt C of marine biota, doubling the previous estimated quantity.

But what Styx is talking about is bacteria in the Earth's crust.

Anaerobic means living but not breathing oxygen.

New sulfate-breathing species discovered beneath ocean crust: Third of Earth's biomass in largely uncharted environment
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0115091910.htm

Abiotic means never was alive

Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?
https://phys.org/news/2009-07-hydroc...eep-earth.html

Why not both?
Mysterious Microbes Found Deep in Earth's Crust

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Adding intrigue to the story, it appears the hydrocarbons these deep-dwelling microbes eat may be produced inside the Earth itself, in a mysterious process entirely independent of the power of the sun, the energy source for almost all life on our planet.

https://www.livescience.com/29857-mi...ths-crust.html