Oil: The Strangest Liquid Earth Ever Made

Listen to Dozeology on Spotify, with the screen off: Dozeology A teaspoon of it once calmed half an acre of a London pond. A single crude oil holds more than seventeen thousand chemical formulas, and hidden among them is the broken outline of the molecule that makes leaves green. If it was never made from dinosaurs, what made it? Tonight we follow a rainbow on a wet road down, past an advertising campaign, a farm in Pennsylvania, a sea that stopped breathing and a kitchen kilometres underground with a very narrow idea of the right temperature. Turn the lamp down, press play, and follow a single drop of oil all the way down with us tonight. If you'd like to hear the next question too, subscribing to Dozeology is the simplest way. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:32 A Rainbow on the Road 10:54 The Dinosaur in Everyone's Head 19:58 Rock Oil 30:08 A Thousand Liquids in One 40:27 A Message in a Molecule 50:41 The Smallest Makers 1:00:16 Where the Sea Stopped Breathing 1:10:14 The Kitchen Beneath the Ground 1:20:00 The Long Climb Upward 1:29:55 The Oil That Got Away 1:39:22 Oil Without Life? 1:49:19 Buried Sunshine 1:59:01 The Strangest Liquid SOURCES Burning buried sunshine: human consumption of ancient solar energy (Carnegie Science) — Burning buried sunshine: Human consumption of ancient solar energy Petroleomics: the next grand challenge for chemical analysis (Marshall & Rodgers, PNAS) — Petroleomics: Chemistry of the underworld Hydrothermal oil of Guaymas Basin (Didyk & Simoneit, Nature) — Hydrothermal oil of Guaymas Basin and implications for petroleum formation mechanisms Effective petroleum source rocks of the world (Klemme & Ulmishek, AAPG) — Effective Petroleum Source Rocks of the World: Stratigraphic Distribution and Controlling Depositional Factors; H. D. Klemme and G. F. Ulmishek; Search and Discovery Article #30003 (1999) Oil in the Sea III: natural seepage (National Academies) — Read Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth (NASA) — Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth - NASA Science Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals (University of Washington) — Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers | UW News Sweden's Siljan Ring well evaluated (Oil & Gas Journal) — SWEDEN'S SILJAN RING WELL EVALUATED Fluid inclusions and molecular fossils in the Precambrian (Macquarie University) — https://www.mq.edu.au/research/resear... Drake Oil Well landmark (ASME) — Drake Oil Well Spindletop history (Lamar University) — Spindletop History Where did the myth that oil is made of dinosaurs come from? (IFLScience) — Where Did The Myth That Oil Is Made Of Dinosaurs Come From? Because Scientists Never Said It Was Alfred E. Treibs and petroleum porphyrins (Wikipedia) — Alfred E. Treibs — Disclaimer: Dozeology makes long-form science documentaries for rest and learning. Facts are drawn from peer-reviewed research and established scientific institutions, and open questions, estimates and speculation are named as such in the narration. Nothing on this channel is medical, health or professional advice, and it is not a news service. IMAGE SOURCES Wikimedia Commons: Main Page #OriginOfOil #PetroleumGeology