Hydrocarbon Potential in Southeastern United States

Catalogs potential hydrocarbon deposits in the United States Southeast The only single reference of the history of hydrocarbon exploration and discovery in the Southeastern United States Introduces new evidence and compiles and re-examines data which argues for increased oil and gas exploration in the region

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Robert James Brewer is the Managing Director and Owner of R.J. Brewer and Associates LLC, an oil and gas exploration services business development, technical writing and electronic commerce corporation. He has been actively involved in the oil and gas exploration business since 1979 including numerous successful seismic data acquisition and processing projects throughout the lower 48 states, Canada and Mexico with the Standard Oil Company of Ohio (Sohio), the Geophysical Service Inc. (GSI) division of Texas Instruments, Inc., and Texaco Inc., among others. He and his teams mapped large portions of the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico recommending the drilling of several deep wildcat and development well locations.

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Introduction.- Geology of the Southeast United States.- Oil and Gas Production in the United States.- Triassic Rift Basins in the Southeast United States.- Challenges and Logistics of Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Southeast United States.- Oil and Gas Production in Virginia and Tennessee.- Possible Undiscovered Oil and Gas Accumulations in the Southeastern United States.- Historic COCORP 2D Seismic Program in Southeast United States.- Georgia as a Central Oil and Gas Exploration Area.- Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coastal (East Coastal) Basins.- Nearest Oil & Gas Production to Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.- Regional Geology, Oil and Gas Shows of Eastern Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and middle Florida.- The Historic Jay and Sunniland Oil Fields of Florida .-Proposed Regional Reconnaissance 2D Seismic Survey Program.- Offshore Southeast United States and Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Potential.- Prospective Areas for Oil and Gas Exploration and Current and Future Developments.- Conclusions.- Suggested Additional Reading.- Index. <p