Aw Jeez, not this **** again!

Abiogenic petroleum origin is an alternative hypothesis to the prevailing biological origin theory of petroleum origins. Most popular in Russia and Ukraine between the 1950s and 1980s, the abiogenic hypothesis has little support among contemporary petroleum geologists, who argue that abiogenic petroleum does not exist in significant amounts and that there is no indication that an application of the hypothesis is or has ever been of commercial value.
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Although evidence exists for abiogenic formation of methane and hydrocarbon gases within the Earth, studies indicate they are not produced in commercially significant quantities (.02% of hydrocarbon gases were produced abiogenically)...

Nobody who has studied the subject for more than about 10 minutes disputes that abiotic hydrocarbons exist. Proving something that has been known for well over a century hardly seems like an achievement to me but YMMV. The problem, as has been pointed out repeatedly on this thread, is rate of production.

It doesn't actually matter even one bit how oil is made anyway, because we are pumping it out WAY faster then it was generated in the first place (by a factor of 10,000 at least, maybe a million).
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Even if its continually renewed by the earth (fat chance), its just not going to be fast enough to matter.

It's amazing how the media can take a scientific paper with very limited and specific conclusion and blow it up into whatever conclusion they want.
What does the paper actually say?
Pressure can convert methane into heavier hydrocarbons. We have observed this in a diamond anvil pressure cell.
That's it, and yes that is perfectly true.
However the media instantly jumps from that to "We're saved, pass the cheetos". No discussion of rates. No discussion of where the methane to be converted is going to come from inside the earth. No discussion of why the existing reservoirs aren't refilling. No critical thought whatsoever.

Secondly I have a background in organic geochemistry and having spent the last 30+ years in the petroleum game...
What indeed is the proof for abiotic orgins......indeed there is none.

While Kucherov's experiments have been proven in the laboratory, they have yet to be translated into reality, and there is no word on how long the world might have to wait to take advantage of the new discoveries.

Please be aware the science for biotic origins (oil was created from living matter) is long lived (since the 40's), well supported by experimental evidence and well supported by direct evidence in the field (match of oils to source rocks). There is a reason that each and every oil company in the world uses this theory for exploration.....it is rock solid (pun not intended). Note that these oil companies are not staffed by people unfamiliar with the science, Exxon, Shell, Statoil, Total etc. have 10's of Phd's in organic geochemistry on their research staff.