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Assessment of Gas Hydrate Resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008

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Photo: Drill Rig at Mt. Elbert, Alaska
Doyon rig 14 at the site of the Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well in the Milne Point Unit on the North Slope of Alaska (photo courtesy of the Mount Elbert Scientific Research team). (Larger Image)

NEW Assessment of Gas Hydrate Resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008
Fact Sheet 2008-3073 | Press Release (11/12/08) | Podcast (Episode 74)
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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have completed the first assessment of the undiscovered, technically recoverable gas-hydrate resources beneath the North Slope of Alaska. This assessment indicates the existence of technically recoverable gas-hydrate resources—that is, resources that can be discovered, developed, and produced using current technology.

 
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Fact Sheet 2008-3082

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently completed the first assessment of the undiscovered technically recoverable gas-hydrate resources on the North Slope of Alaska. Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the USGS estimates that there are about 85 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas resources within gas hydrates in northern Alaska.
Factsheet 2008-3073

 

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Assessing Gas-Hydrate Prospects on the North Slope of Alaska—Theoretical Considerations
Scientific Investigations Report 2008–5175

Natural Gas Hydrates: Vast Resource, Uncertain Future.
USGS Fact sheet 021-01

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DOE/NETL Indian Ocean Hydrate Research Press Release
Department of Energy, National Methane Hydrates R&D Program Indian Ocean Hydrate Research website.

The Mallik Project
The Mallik Research Consortium drilled three test wells in Canada’s Mackenzie Delta, and the results of this cooperative effort, demonstrating the producibility of this energy resource, were published in 2005.

 

 

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