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- Presents a unique discussion of renewable and non-renewable energy and the transition from a vertically organized energy industry to a horizontally organized one based on renewable energy
- Includes original data relevant to late Pleistocene climate change in the Mediterranean region
- Offers a unique discussion of the natural gas hydrate resource with respect to those characteristics that offer opportunities for innovation and cost-savings
- Contributes a valuable guide to the transition to a renewable energy paradigm
- Updated to include the implications from a number of successful drilling cruises, production tests by Japan and China, and resource identification off India, as well as substantial basic research
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This second edition provides extensive information on the attributes of the Natural Gas Hydrate (NGH) system, highlighting opportunities for the innovative use and modification of existing technologies, as well as new approaches and technologies that have the potential to dramatically lower the cost of NGH exploration and production.
Above all, the book compares the physical, environmental, and commercial aspects of the NGH system with those of other gas resources. It subsequently argues and demonstrates that natural gas can provide the least expensive energy during the transition to, and possibly within, a renewable energy future, and that NGH poses the lowest environmental risk of all gas resources.
Intended as a non-mathematical, descriptive text that should be understandable to non-specialists as well as to engineers concerned with the physical characteristics of NGH reservoirs and their production, the book is written for readers at the university graduate level. It offers a valuable reference guide for environmentalists and the energy community, and includes discussions that will be of great interest to energy industry professionals, legislators, administrators, regulators, and all those concerned with energy options and their respective advantages and disadvantages.Keywords
- Natural Gas Hydrate Exploration
- Fossil Fuel and Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrate
- Renewable Energy and Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrate
- Environmental Risk and Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrates
- Deepwater Natural Gas Hydrate and Exploration
- Natural Gas and Cost-saving and Innovation
- Ultra-deepwater Technology and Natural Gas
- Nature Gas Hydrate Production
- NHG Resources
- Climate change management
- mineral resources
Reviews
“The authors, experts in the geoscience and engineering of GHs, show that near-future energy needs will rely on a natural gas component to make up for hourly to seasonal production shortfalls in electricity demand. This book should be a handy resource for geoscientists in both government and NGOs, power-generation technologists, policy makers, energy economists, and graduate-level students in ocean energy science. The first five chapters cover the geoscience and economics of GH production; the remaining six cover the operations side of GH production and engineering. This should quickly become the standard reference for GHs.” (Tom Klekamp, President of Amber Resources, L.L.C., 39 years of diverse oil industry experience)
“Natural Gas Hydrates have always been considered a fringe science with many parallels to fusion power. They are both known to be technically possible but are always 30 years away. By providing decades of knowledge and understanding of the entire energy landscape, from the geologic formation to the light switch of the end user, the authors formulate a cogent and practical argument for Natural Gas Hydrates becoming a significant component of the not too distant energy future. Their detailed account of the horizontal drilling and fracking revolution and its far ranging and ongoing impact on the world economy shows how NGH may be poised to be the next evolution of fossil fuel production . . . for better or for worse from a climate perspective. In the age of bookmarks this book provides a valuable and handy guide to many of the questions the informed reader may have on the modern energy economy.” (Christopher Carstens is a Berkeley and Singularity University trained inventor and entrepreneur with more 15 years of experience in the conventional and renewable energy space)
Authors and Affiliations
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Marine and Petroleum Geology Research Group (Natural Gas Hydrate), iCRAG, School of Earth Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
Michael D. Max
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Kenner, USA
Arthur H. Johnson
About the authors
Art Johnson was a founding partner of Hydrate Energy International, LLC (HEI). Prior to forming HEI in 2002, Art had been a geologist with Chevron for 25 years, where his career included most aspects of hydrocarbon exploration and development. Art was instrumental in initiating Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico program for gas hydrate studies in 1995. He advised Congress and the White House on energy issues starting in 1997, and chaired advisory committees for several Secretaries on Energy. He had a longstanding role coordinating the research efforts of industry, universities, and government agencies. Art served as the Gas Hydrate Lead Analyst for the “Global Energy Assessment,” an international project undertaken bythe International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) of Vienna, Austria and supported by the World Bank, UN organizations, and national governments that evaluated the energy resource bases of the entire planet with a view to addressing energy needs in the decades to come. He was Chair of the Gas Hydrate Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and was also very active in his Methodist Church and in helping with hurricane relief and peacemaking activities. Much to the sorrow of his good friend and co-author, and of countless other friends, Art unexpectedly passed away on August 9, 2017.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploration and Production of Oceanic Natural Gas Hydrate
Book Subtitle: Critical Factors for Commercialization
Authors: Michael D. Max, Arthur H. Johnson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00401-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00400-2Published: 03 November 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13110-4Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00401-9Published: 24 October 2018
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 482
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy, general, Climate Change Management and Policy, Innovation/Technology Management, Robotics and Automation, Mineral Resources