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The National Methane Hydrates R&D Program
 DOE/NETL Methane Hydrate Projects

FIELD STUDIES

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Active Projects

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Project Name

Primary Performer
DE-FC26-06NT43067 Mechanisms Leading to Co-existence of Gas and Hydrate in Ocean Sediments The University of Texas at Austin
DE-FC26-06NT42963 Methane Recovery from Hydrate-bearing Sediments Georgia Institute of Technology
DE-FC26-06NT42962 Characterization and Qualification of the Methane Hydrate Resource Potential Associated with the Barrow Gas Fields North Slope Borough
DE-FC26-06NT42961 Seismic Gas Hydrate Quantification by Cumulative Attributes (CATTs) Rock Solid Images
DE-FC26-06NT42960 Detection and Production of Methane Hydrate Rice University
DE-FC26-06NT42959 Electrical Resistivity Investigation of Gas Hydrate Distribution in Mississippi Canyon Block 118, GOM Baylor University
DE-AI26-06NT42938 Gas Hydrates Research Database and Web Dissemination Channel National Institute of Standards and Technology
DE-AI26-06NT42878 -
Bottom Source Task		 Gas Hydrate Research in Deep Sea Sediments - Bottom Source Task Naval Research Laboratory
DE-FC26-06NT42667 Combining Multicomponent Seismic Attributes, New Rock Physics Models, and In Situ Data to Estimate Gas-Hydrate Concentrations in Deep-Water, Near-Seafloor Strata of the Gulf of Mexico The University of Texas at Austin (BEG)
DE-AI26-05NT42496 Conducting Scientific Studies of Natural Gas Hydrates to Support the DOE Efforts to Evaluate and Understand Methane Hydrates U.S. Geological Survey
DE-FC26-05NT42666 Comparative Assessment of Advanced Gas Hydrate Production Methods Battelle Pacific Nothwest Division
DE-FC26-05NT42664 /
ESD05-036 		Geomechanical Performance of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments in Offshore Environments Texas Engineering Experiment Station and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
DE-FC26-05NT42663 Seismic-Scale Rock Physics of Methane Hydrate Stanford University
DE-FC26-02NT41628&
DE-FC26-00NT40920 		Gulf of Mexico Sea Floor Stability and Gas Hydrates Monitoring Project University of Mississippi Center for Marine Resources and Environmental Technology (CMRET)
DE-FC26-01NT41332 Alaska North Slope Gas Hydrate Reservoir Characterization BP Exploration Alaska, Inc.
DE-FC26-01NT41330 Characterizing Natural Gas Hydrates in the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico: Applications for Safe Exploration Chevron Energy Technology Company
NETL-ORD Geoscience Evaluations and Field Studies NETL Office of Research and Development
Completed Projects

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Project Name

Primary Performer
DE-AI26-06NT42878 -
Alaminos Canyon Task		 Geochemical Evaluation of Deep Sediment Hydrate Deposits in Alaminos Canyon, Block 818, Texas-Louisiana Shelf Naval Research Laboratory
DE-AI26-06NT42878 -
New Zealand Task		 Gas Hydrate Research in Deep Sea Sediments - New Zealand Task Naval Research Laboratory
DE-FC26-05NT42665 Gas Hydrate Instability in the Southeastern Bering Sea Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
DE-FC26-01NT41331 Methane Hydrate Production from Alaskan Permafrost Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
DE-FC26-01NT41329 In Situ Sampling and Characterization of Methane Hydrate Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI)
DE-FC26-02NT41328 Support of Gulf of Mexico Hydrate Research Consortium University of California
DE-AC26-01NT41007 The Mallik 2002 Consortium: Drilling and Testing a Gas Hydrate Well Geological Survey of Canada
DE-AF26-01NT00394 Sampling and Monitoring of Hydrate Mounds in the Gulf of Mexico Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
DE-AF26-01NT00370 High Resolution Processing of Seismic Data from GB 424 and 425 and
MC 852 and 853, Gulf of Mexico		 Western-Geco
DE-FC26-00NT40921 Three-Dimensional Structure and Physical Properties of Methane Hydrate Deposit at Blake Ridge University of Wyoming, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
DE-FC26-00NT41024 Characterizing Marine Gas Hydrate Reservoirs Using 3-D Seismic Data University of Texas, Bureau of Economic Geology
DE-AT26-97FT34342 Characterizing Arctic Hydrates (Canadian Test Well and Alaskan "Wells of Opportunity") United States Geological Survey
DE-AT26-97FT34343 Gathering, Processing and Evaluating Seismic and Physical Data on Gas Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico US geological Survey, Woods Hole Field Center
DE-AT26-97FT34344 High Resolution Sidescan Sonar and Multibeam Bathymetric Data Collection and Processing, Atwater Canyon, Gulf of Mexico Naval Research Lab

LAB STUDIES

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Active Projects

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Project Name

Primary Performer
NETL-ORD Geoscience Evaluations and Field Studies NETL Office of Research and Development
NETL-ORD Formation and dissociation of methane hydrates NETL Office of Research and Development
NETL-ORD Methane Hydrate Numerical Simulation Studies NETL Office of Research and Development
NETL-ORD Thermal Properties of Hydrate – Tool Development NETL Office of Research and Development
ESD07-014/08FE-003 Interrelation of Global Climate and the Response of Oceanic Hydrate Accumulations Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory
ESD05-048 Laboratory Studies in Support of Characterization of Recoverable Resources from Methane Hydrate Deposits Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
DE-AI26-06NT42938 Gas Hydrates Research Database and Web Dissemination Channel National Institute of Standards and Technology
FLU5A425 Methanogenesis in Hydrate-Bearing Sediments: Integration of Experimental and Theoretical Approaches Idaho National Laboratory
EST-380-NEDA Characterization and Decomposition Kinetic Studies of Methane Hydrate in Host Sediments under Subsurface Mimic Conditions Brookhaven National Laboratory
FWP-45133 Characterization of Methane Hydrate Bearing Sediments and Hydrate Dissociation Kinetics Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
FEAB111 Hydrate Formation and Dissociation via Depressurization in Simulated and Field Samples Oak Ridge National Laboratory
FWP-G308 and ESD00-021 Numerical Studies for the Characterization of Recoverable Resources from Methane Hydrate Deposits Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Completed Projects

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Project Name

Primary Performer
DE-FC26-02NT41327 Petrophysical Characterization and Reservoir Simulator for Gas Hydrate
Production and Hazard Avoidance in the Gulf of Mexico		 Westport Technology Center Int'l
FEAB105 Mesoscale Characterization of Natural and Synthetic Gas Hydrates Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DE-FC26-00NT40916 Fundamentals of Natural Gas and Species Flows from Hydrate Dissociation -  Applications to Safety Problems Clarkson University
FWP-4340-60 &
FWP-42C1-01		 Collection and Microbiological Analysis of Gas Hydrate Cores Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)
DE-AT26-99FT40267 Mechanical Testing of Gas Hydrate/Sediment Samples US Army Corp of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center
 
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