There are claims that Saturn's moon Titan has hundreds of times the combined oil reserves remaining on the entirety of Earth. But, are these claims actually true? After all, this strange thick atmosphere moon contains many deep lakes filled with both menthane and ethane. Today's video will separate fact from fiction through the opinion and analysis of a geologist, and discuss how close these abundant molecules get to being classified as either oil or natural gas. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "TitanMoonLakes5", is a derivative of (resized, cropped, decreased image brightness, increased image color saturation, added text overlay, overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "File:Viewfromtitan.jpg", by: Debivort, 2006, User link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Debivort, Posted on Wikimedia Commons at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viewfromtitan.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0. "TitanMoonLakes5" is used & licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 by Youtube.com/GeologyHub If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] NASA [2] NASA Image and Video Library [3] Lorenz, R. D., et al. (2008), Titan's inventory of organic surface materials, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L02206, doi:10.1029/2007GL032118. [4] Czaplinski EC, Vu TH, Maynard-Casely H, Ennis C, Cable ML, Malaska MJ, Hodyss R. Formation and Stability of the Propionitrile:Acetylene Co-Crystal Under Titan-Relevant Conditions. ACS Earth Space Chem. 2025 Jan 28;9(2):253-264. doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00262. PMID: 40008142; PMCID: PMC11849028. [5] Lopes, Rosaly & Mitchell, Karl & Wall, Steve & Mitri, Giuseppe & Janssen, M. & Ostro, Steven & Kirk, Randolph & Hayes, Alexander & Stofan, Ellen & Lunine, Jonathan & Lorenz, Ralph & Wood, Charles & Radebaugh, Jani & Paillou, Philippe & Zebker, H. & Paganelli, Flora. (2007). The Lakes and Seas of Titan. EOS Transactions. 88. 569-570. 10.1029/2007EO510001. [6] Cordier, Daniel & Mousis, Olivier & Lunine, Jonathan & Lavvas, Panayotis & Vuitton, Véronique. (2009). An estimate of the chemical composition of Titan's Lakes. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 707. 10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/L128. [7] Illés, E.. (2020). Hidroszférák, folyadékszférák a Naprendszer bolygótestjein. 10.31852/EMF.32.2020.058.066. [8] U.S. Geological Survey 0:00 Titan Has Oil? 0:29 About Titan 1:54 Oil & Natural Gas 3:43 Methane 4:29 Chemical Reactions