With respect to the vital work of maintaining and increasing much needed petroleum reserves
within the continental United States the Southeast is intriguing because it has been
under-explored for many years at the expense of far more promising areas such as the Gulf
Coast. While critics may contend that the overall geology of the Southeastern United States is
unfavorable for commercial accumulations of hydrocarbons the occurrence of the oil seeps in
Georgia and the oil and gas shows reported in wells drilled in North Carolina suggests
otherwise. This volume introduces new evidence and compiles and re-examines data which argues
for increased oil and gas exploration in the region.
