Major gas discovery — in the Persian Gulf?
Who would have thought. With decades of exploration, seismic campaigns, and drilling that’s turned the region into something resembling a geological pin cushion, you’d assume everything worth finding would already have been catalogued, labeled, and monetized. And yet, here we are again: “major discovery.”
Let me venture a modest prediction. Over the coming years, we’ll “discover” that there’s far more oil and gas at economically viable costs than the fossil narrative ever dared to imagine. We’ll also find that reservoirs are refilling—and not over mythical epochs, but in shockingly short geological intervals. The cherished notion of “fossil fuels” makes for a pretty bedtime story, but reality is less romantic.
The fossil theory has sprung too many leaks to keep afloat. Hydrocarbons are not the ancient liquefied carcasses of ferns and dinosaurs—they’re products of deep geological processes occurring between the Earth’s crust and mantle. No rotting biomass required. That’s why hydrocarbons are scattered all over the Solar System like confetti: they’re among the most natural molecular families there are.But of course, don’t expect the narrative to shift overnight. There’s a lot of funding, careers, and “settled science” clinging to that fossil fairytale.