Sentences with phrase «contains natural gas reserves»

Located about a mile underground, the formation's shale contains natural gas reserves and highly saline water laced with salts, metals and radioactive elements.

Not exact matches

New techniques promised to unlock huge reserves of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation deep underground beneath Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio said to contain enough natural gas to supply the East Coast for up to 50 years.

Naturally - occurring methane hydrates, hidden deep under the sea floor or tucked under Arctic permafrost, contain substantial natural gas reserves locked up in a form that is difficult to extract.

The survey documents data from 16 wells off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas that show geopressured and geothermal energy reserves in the Gulf exceed the energy contained in all the conventional natural gas reserves of the continental U.S..

In 112 hours, the sun provides 36 zettajoules of energy — as much energy as is contained in all proven reserves of oil, coal and natural gas on this planet

The sedimentary methane hydrate reservoir probably contains 2 — 10 times the currently known reserves of conventional natural gas, as of 2013 [update].

This matters because there is a huge amount of carbon currently locked up in permafrost, and the methane hydrates alone contain more carbon than all of Earth's proven reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas combined.