Nanhua System in Datangpo, Songtao County, Guizhou Province is proposed to be one of the ideal areas to investigate the ancient gas seep and the associated cold spring carbonates.

So far, Jackson's results are consistent: What's in peoples' Wells is deep gas, created in high heat with its own chemical signature. It's not like the methane in this old seep.

He also says the oil and gas markets, particularly liquefied natural gas in Australia, have taken off (seep. 80).