EMD: Global Methane Hydrate Resources
Room Ballroom F/H
Co-Chairs: T. S. Collett, S. Garg, and A. R. Scott
1:25 -- Introductory Remarks
1:30 -- T. S. Collett, T. Lorenson: The Eileen-Tarn Gas Hydrate Petroleum System, Northern Alaska
1:50 -- S. R. Dallimore, T. Collett, T. Uchida, M. Weber: Overview of Scientific Studies Conducted as Part of the 2002 Mallik Gas Hydrate Production Research Well Program
2:10 -- A. M. Trehu, G. Bohrmann, L. T. H. A. F. S. Party: Drilling Gas Hydrates on Hydrate Ridge, Oregon Continental Margin
2:30 -- D. W. Scholl, G. A. Barth, J. R. Childs: Massive Accumulations of Methane Hydrate in the Aleutian Basin of the Bering Sea: Basin Analysis, Origin, and Resource Potential
2:50 -- A. V. Milkov, R. Sassen: Assessing the Economic Potential of Individual Gas Hydrate Accumulations in the Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope
3:10 -- Break
3:20 -- A. H. Johnson, W. P. Dillon, M. D. Max: Strategies for Gas Hydrate Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico
3:40 -- T. D. Lorenson, W. J. Winters, C. K. Paull, W. Ussler, III, P. 127 Shipboard Science Party: Gas Hydrate in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: New Insights Learned from Giant Piston Coring
4:00 -- T. M. McGee, P. D. Higley, J. R. Woolsey: A Vertical Hydrophone Array for Imaging the Hydrate Stability Zone
4:20 -- H. H. Roberts, A. Sheremet, W. J. Wiseman, Jr, J. L. Hunt: Response of a Surficial Gas Hydrate to Thermal Loading by a Weak Loop Current Eddy - Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope
4:40 -- V. S. Yakushev: Resources of Natural Gas in Shallow Permafrost Accumulations of Relict (Self-Preserved) Gas Hydrates in Russia