http://www.rense.com/general63/refil.htm
{ Kennicutt, a faculty member at Texas A&M University, said it is now clear that gas and oil are coming into the known reservoirs very rapidly in terms of geologic time. The inflow of new gas, and some oil, has been detectable in as little as three to 10 years. In the past, it was not suspected that oil fields can refill because it was assumed the oil formed in place, or nearby, rather than far below.
According to marine geologist Harry Roberts, at Louisiana State University, "petroleum geologists don't accept it as a general phenomenon because it doesn't happen in most reservoirs. But in this case, it does seem to be happening. You have a very leaky fault system that does allow it to migrate in. It's directly connected to an oil and gas generating system at great depth."
What the scientists suspect is that very old petroleum -- formed tens of millions of years ago -- has continued migrating up into reservoirs that oil companies have been exploiting for years. But no one had expected that depleted oil fields might refill themselves.
Now, if it is found that gas and oil are coming up in significant amounts, and if the same is occurring in oil fields around the globe, then a lot more fuel than anyone expected could become available eventually. It hints that the world may not, in fact, be running out of petroleum. }
>>Oil seeps are widespread in Georgia, with exploration in the country have commenced during the 19th century, by exploitation of the surface seeps and shallow drilling beneath them. The first substantive discovery, the Supsa Field near the Black Sea, was made in 1889 and still produces small amounts of oil today.
Georgia is a reasonably well established hydrocarbon producing province with a number of discoveries and seeps along the Greater Caucasus and Achara-Trialet frontal folds, which are present along the northern and southern margins of the two license, where there are numerous oil and gas seeps. <<
http://www.rangeresources.com.au/operations/georgia/
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