Vladimir Porfiriev
Geologist, Deceased Person
1899 – 1982
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Who was Vladimir Porfiriev?
Vladimir Borisovich Porfiryev, Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Порфи́рьев, was a Russian and Ukrainian petroleum and coal geologist.
Porfiryev was one of the major proponents of the theory of the origin of Abiogenic petroleum, that is, that petroleum was formed by primordial non-biological processes rather than from the decaying remains of plant and animal life.
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