The email that alerted me to this was called "Drill deep enough, find Gold"

[james_davis_nicoll]

The relevant bit begins around 2:20

"Jerome Corsi: 'Co2 is Good' & 'Obama's Gay' Conspiracy Nut - Rachel Maddow Show" (Watch on YouTube)

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[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

If anything, a modern biological source would be more likely to support oil field replenishment. I suspect the "theory" may be a distraction tactic, intended to confuse and delay people who might otherwise spend time annoying oil companies.

There's a gene-tweaked breed of E. coli that produces diesel oil as a waste product, so it's not biologically impossible.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Some of the gas coming from shales is actually biogenic. The Marcellus (I think it is) shale in Michigan, for example, has a part where the methane is produced by microbes acting on kerogen in the shale.

Excessive salinity shuts this off, so one solution is to purge a fracked shale formation with fresher water.

I worry a bit that once gas shales are "done", the fracturing will lead to long term production of more methane, which may leak out for centuries.