If they concentrated on looking only in Marion County they missed it. It clearly is in far southwestern Winston County due south of Haleyville on a line between

If they concentrated on looking only in Marion County they missed it. It clearly is in far southwestern Winston County due south of Haleyville on a line between there and Eldridge that places it a little over 3/4 mile west of Hwy 13 pretty close to the half-moon shaped pond on the headwaters of Dry Creek. If they would focus their search on a radius of about 5 miles from that location they will probably have more likely candidates to consider. There is a small community on the curve in Hwy 13 south of the Hwy 9/13 intersection and further west of that there is an active quarry. It doesn't look like coal but I can't be sure. Anyway, though this is at the NE edge of the Black Warrior basin I don't see any active production. Here are a few pics I put together for grins. https://postimg.cc/gallery/phsPyBJ https://postimg.cc/gallery/phsPyBJ EDIT: I wanted to add that there has been frac activity in the Black Warrior Basin for about 10 years. It is mostly south of there. That basin has been productive for a long time so there is a high likelihood that there are old wells that have not been plugged, they are simply abandoned and many could be essentially open-hole. That would be an obvious path for hydrocarbons to reach the surface and it would definitely not be the only time it has happened. I know from experience that fracking a well can cause pressure and production increases in connected wells 10s of miles away if the fracked interval is connected in the subsurface. Pressure always moves from high pressure to low pressure while it equalizes. This area is also the southwestern extension of the Appalachian coal trend. There could be some coal activity locally.