[crusty old prospector]

There is no current production in North Carolina, to my knowledge. Their best bet would be coalbed methane or offshore where some wells found some non-commercial shows back the 1970-1980’s. There have only been 129 wells drilled in the entire state. That is less than a three-mile radius of where I am sitting in my office in Texas. Only seven wells have been drilled in NC since 1980. Next, Maine will ban fracing and then override it for show.

[Skulllspitter]

“Using a geology-based assessment method, the USGS estimates the mean undiscovered natural gas resources in the Deep River Basin in North Carolina to be 1,660 billion cubic feet of gas and 83 million barrels of natural gas liquids. Based on the 2010 average daily natural gas consumption volume in North Carolina of 811 million cubic feet per day, the USGS mean estimate of 1.66 trillion cubic feet could meet the state’s natural gas demand for 5.6 years.

NC Dept of Env. & Natural Resources statement on USGS survey

It's Triassic Basin, if that means anything to you geologically. All I know is the Triassic had dinosaurs. And cavemen!