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- The "strong" abiotic theory: oil is formed at a speed sufficient to replace the oil reservoirs as we deplete them, that is, at a rate something like 10,000 times faster than theorized in petroleum geology.

- The "strong" abiotic theory: oil is formed at a speed sufficient to replace the oil reservoirs as we deplete them, that is, at a rate something like 10,000 times faster than theorized in petroleum geology.

As optimistic as the idea of abiotic oil seems, the reality is that abiotic oil is widely considered to be scientifically unsupported in the West, although the Russian-Ukrainian theory claims to have successfully found many abiotic wells (as evidenced by Russian oil production), and refutes the biodic theory of oil completely.<ref name="gold1999">{{cite book

As optimistic as the idea of abiotic oil seems, the reality is that abiotic oil is widely considered to be scientifically unsupported in the West, although the Russian-Ukrainian theory claims to have successfully found many abiotic wells (as evidenced by Russian oil production), and refutes the biotic theory of oil completely.<ref name="gold1999">{{cite book

| author=Gold, Thomas

| author=Gold, Thomas

| year=1999

| year=1999