The largest source of natural gas, bigger than shale gas
reserves worldwide containing 100,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
NETL on Methane
Hydrate Potential
Per USGS (via EIA)
World’s methane hydrates may contain between 10,000 and
100,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Gas hydrates will be the largest
(and untapped) fossil energy resource, larger than all current oil and gas
sources combined.
For example, compare this to Chevron’s
Gorgon Project estimated to contain 35.3 trillion cubic feet of natural
gas.
Work on how to tap these gas hydrates continues.
Methane hydrates (or gas hydrates) are cage-like lattices of water molecules containing methane, the chief constituent of natural gas.
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