Sentences with phrase «gas hydrate resources»
«The Energy Policy Act of 2005 similarly speaks directly to the production of fossil fuels... («The purpose of this section is to promote natural gas production from the natural gas hydrate resources on the outer Continental Shelf and Federal lands in Alaska»); id.
http://eidclimate.org/ Not exact matches
«We should see gas hydrate becoming a meaningful and environmentally friendly resource in the next century,» Sassen says.
Gas hydrates — a mixture of ice and methane — are found only under high pressure and at cold temperatures, and they are expected to make up a significant portion of the energy mix once existing oil fields dwindle, says David Scott, manager of the Northern Resources Development Program for Natural Resources Canada.
«You release a hydrate and then form a hydrate, which is pretty cool,» he says, especially given that methane gas hydrates represent the most abundant global natural carbon resource.
Shale gas and coal bed methane and maybe methane hydrates are large resources.
Because the world faces a fossil fuel glut in the future — the torrents of new shale oil and gas that increasingly flood world markets could themselves be swamped by next - generation methane hydrate fuels — Canada's energy resources could depreciate if left to stagnate in the ground.
The new research projects are intended to advance understanding of the nature and occurrence of deepwater and Arctic gas hydrates and their implications for future resource development and environmental performance.
Methane hydrate — molecules of natural gas trapped in an ice - like cage of water molecules — represents a potentially vast methane resource for both the United States and the world.