Towards Commercial Gas Production from Hydrate Deposits

Jill Marcelle- De Silva and Richard Dawe
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Jill Marcelle- De Silva: Petroleum Engineering Unit, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
Richard Dawe: Petroleum Engineering Unit, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago

Energies, 2011, vol. 4, issue 2, 1-24

Abstract: Over the last decade global natural gas consumption has steadily increased since many industrialized countries are substituting natural gas for coal to generate electricity. There is also significant industrialization and economic growth of the heavily populated Asian countries of India and China. The general consensus is that there are vast quantities of natural gas trapped in hydrate deposits in geological systems, and this has resulted in the emerging importance of hydrates as a potential energy resource and an accompanying proliferation of recent studies on the technical and economic feasibility of gas production from hydrates. There are then the associated environmental concerns. This study reviews the state of knowledge with respect to natural gas hydrates and outlines remaining challenges and knowledge gaps.

Keywords: natural gas hydrates; methane hydrate; unconventional resource; energy resource; natural gas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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