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Status of Gas Hydrate Research in Kore  

Huh, Dae-Gee (한국지질자원연구원 석유해저자원연구부)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers / v.42, no.3, 2005 , pp. 206-213 More about this Journal
Abstract
Gas hydrates have attracted much attention recently as a new clean energy resource substituting conventional oil and gas due to its presumed tremendous amount of volume reaching 10 trillion tons of gas and environment-friendly characteristics. Korea also found gas hydrates potential below 1,000m water depth in the East Sea from the analysis of deep sea seismic surveys during the last 5 years. Gas hydrates can contribute to the rapidly increasing consumption of natural gas in Korea and achieve the self-support target by 2010 which is 30% of the total gas demand. The R&D on gas hydrates was first initiated in 1996 and many projects were performed since then including thermodynamic properties of gas hydrates and optimum model for its production as well as characteristics of gas hydrates formations in deep sea. New ten-year gas hydrates development project started this year, consisting of three phases. The purpose of this R&D project by the Gas Hydrate Research Organization is to confirm the existence of gas hydrates buried in deep East Sea in more detail, that can be sufficient to verify the possibility of alternative energy resource of gas hydrates. If the economic amount and equilibrium conditions along the geological structures would be thoroughly evaluated, positively defined in the first phase, the reserve estimation of gas hydrates field would follow in more schematic ways and the efficient production techniques would be fully studies in the following phases.
Keywords
Gas hydrate; Methane hydrate; New clen energy; Gas hydrate research organization;
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