METHANE HYDRATE RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF: IN-PLACE GULF OF MEXICO RESULTS

Matthew Frye, John Grace, Jesse Hunt, Gordon Kaufman, John Schuenemeyer, William Shedd
2008
The U.S. Minerals Management Service has completed a preliminary assessment of in-place gas hydrate resources in the Gulf of Mexico. A probabilistic model built on a mass balance approach to assessment provides a high degree of spatial resolution and supports detailed mapping. The model produces a Monte Carlo distribution of in-place resources that ranges from 314 trillion to 974 trillion cubic meters (TCM) with a mean value of 607 TCM. Additional work on development of a technically recoverable model component is under way.
doi:10.14288/1.0041133 fatcat:26rvp32lnze65l2yejtml6xyrm