You just said it yourself. Oil can move until it finds a trap. The source rock for the Alaska north slope is the shale that they are just beginning to explore or take a look at the oil deposits trapped next to huge salt domes in the Gulf. It is possible the wells in Belize are being fed from a formation to the east and the rock below and to the west has provided that trap.
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