Overview
- Presents a unique discussion of renewable and non-renewable energy and the transition from a vertically organized energy industry to a horizontally organized energy industry based on renewable energy
- Contains 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 unique characteristics that offer opportunities for innovation and cost-savings
- Contributes a relevant guide to the transition to a renewable energy paradigm
- Puts forward a unique discussion of existing ultra-deepwater technology and practices and of new technology for development of natural gas hydrate
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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
- ulltra-deepwater technology and natural gas
- Nature gas hydrate production
- NHG resources
- Climate change management
- mineral resources
About this book
This is possibly the most useful book discussing fossil fuels that will be a reference for environmentalists and energy policy institutions, and for the environmental and energy community.
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
About the authors
Arthur H. Johnson is a founding partner of Hydrate Energy International, LLC (HEI) and is engaged in energy consulting in the U.S. and throughout the world. Prior to forming HEI in 2002, Art was 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 has advised Congress and the White House on energy issues since 1997, and chaired advisory committees for several Secretaries on Energy. He has an on-going 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 by the 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 base of the entire planet with a view to addressing energy needs in the decades to come. He is Chair of the Gas Hydrate Committee of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and has a continuing role as an AAPG Visiting Geoscientist. Art has published over 80 papers and articles, along with several books. These cover a diverse range of topics that include geology, geophysics, economics, and astrogeology.
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/10.1007/978-3-319-43385-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43385-1Published: 16 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 405
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy, general, Climate Change Management and Policy, Innovation/Technology Management, Robotics and Automation, Mineral Resources