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The Energy Resources Program investigates geologic, technologic, environmental, and economic factors controlling the production and use of unconventional fuels such as gas hydrates, coalbed methane, oil shale, heavy oil and natural Bitumen, and tar sands.

NEW Assessment of Gas Hydrate Resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008
Fact Sheet 2008-3073| Podcast (Episode 74)
Slide Presentation (Flash document 10.6 MB)
Gas Hydrates Website

NEW Assessment of Moderate- and High-Temperature Geothermal Resources of the United States
Fact Sheet 2008-3082| Press Release (9/29/08)
Slide Presentation (Flash document 1.44 MB)
Methodology Summary: Open-File Report 2008-126
KQED QUEST TV story, "Geothermal Heats Up" featuring USGS Scientist, Colin Williams

SPOTLIGHT

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

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Geothermal Energy – Clean Power from the Earth’s Heat
Circular 1249
In an effort to support national energy planners, this new USGS circular incorporates more recent advances in geothermal science and technology.

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

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Renewable Energy Policy Project
Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), publishing information about renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability available on the Internet.

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