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5. A major environmental risk?
5.1 Sudden destabilization of methane hydrates
The estimated stock of methane hydrates is particularly large. The data presented by the IPCC in their latest report put the value close to 530 billion tonnes of CH 4 for hydrates contained in the Arctic and 2,000 to 8,000 billion tonnes of CH 4 for hydrates in the deep offshore....
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Conclusion
Bibliography
- (1) - World Energy Outlook - Agence Internationale de l'Énergie (2014) http://www.iea.org/bookshop/477-World_ Energy_Outlook_2014
- (2) - HUREAU (G.), VIALLY (R.) -...
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Gas hydrate research organizations
Sugar Project (GEOMAR), Germany http://www.geomar.de/en/research/fb2/fb2-mg/projects/ sugar-2-phase/
Recorder, Canada https://csegrecorder.com/
...Events
International Conference on Gas Hydrates: every 3 years
The last one (8th ICGH) took place in 2014 in Beijing ( http://www.icgh8.org/dct/page/1 ) and the next one will take place in the United States in 2017.
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