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New Progress and Outlook of Potential Resources Volume of Natural Gas Hydrate

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  • 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    2. Guangzhou Center for Gas Hydrate Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
    3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
    4. School of Energy Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing100083, China

Received date: 2014-09-13

  Revised date: 2014-10-16

  Online published: 2014-12-30

Abstract

The size of gas hydrate reservoir is very important to the future energy resource and environment. The potential total resources volume of gas hydrate in the past 40 years is integrated and evaluated, which could be divided into three periods: the initial stage (1970s ~ early 1980s), the developmental stage (1980s ~ early 2000s), and the rational stage (2000s ~ present). It appears that the estimates of gas hydrates decreased by at least one order of magnitude from one stage to another. The decrease of estimates is a result of growing research of gas hydrates exploration and development. With the acquisition of actual samples of gas hydrate, the method of estimation hydrate resource is getting more and more mature; estimation parameters are getting closer and closer to the actual geological conditions; estimated value becomes more and more rational. The best estimated amount of the global marine gas hydrate resources is (1 ~ 3) × 1015 m3.

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CONG Xiao-rong, WU Neng-you, SU Ming, YANG Rui, QIAO Shao-hua, MAO Xiao-ping . New Progress and Outlook of Potential Resources Volume of Natural Gas Hydrate[J]. Advances in New and Renewable Energy, 2014 , 2(6) : 462 -470 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-560X.2014.06.009

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