Over the past decade, the recognition of the potentially vast global occurrence of methane hydrate has raised a number of critical public interest questions. Chief among these is the potential for methane hydrate to serve as a significant new resource to help meet long-term energy demands. To address this and other questions, the Methane Hydrate RD (2) the increased recognition and documentation of the complexity of natural hydrate systems; (3) the increasing ability to directly detect hydrates through remote sensing; (4) the emerging transition from reliance on in-place numbers to more relevant estimates of recoverability; (5) a focus on hydrates within porous and permeable strata, whether in arctic or marine settings, and (6) the emergence of the first validated and publicly-available reservoir simulators.
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