The abiotic oil theory of crude oil generation is universally poopoo'd by science, business and political groups. All we need is for religious groups to attack it as "un-Godly".

Political groups see abiotic oil as undermining their Environmentalist stance, and oil producers want everyone to keep thinking that crude oil is in short supply, so they can works less and make more money by huges price increases. All trained geologists were taught that crude oil is a "fossil fuel" and most of them ain't going to budge from their schooling.

Go to the biography of the late Thomas Gold in Wikipedia. He was enigmatic, free-thinking and brilliant. The Wiki article also has a picture the life around an oceanic thermal plume.