From the USGS (LINK): "Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and U.S. Geological Survey Director Mark Myers today released a USGS assessment estimating that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope. This would be enough natural gas to heat more than 100 million average homes for 10 years, according to current usage rates provided by the Energy Information Administration. However, further research, including long-term production tests, still is needed to demonstrate gas hydrates as an economically producible resource."
Good news, let's hope it leads to more gas for the pipeline.
More from USGS: Factsheet, and gas hydrate website.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
A future for Gas Hydrates?
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