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http://mosnews.com/feature/2006/08/08/oiltheory.shtml

Russian Researchers Say Rains Boost Oil Reserves
Created: 08.08.2006 12:58 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:57 MSK

MosNews

A group of Russian scientists at the oil and gas research institute of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, led by Azary Barenbaum, have come up with a new
explanation of the nature of oil and gas formation. They argue that huge
reserves of hydrocarbons may take only decades to be formed, not millions of
years, as earlier believed. The new theory was published this month in the
leading Russian scientific magazine Nauka I Zhizn (Science and Life).

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