Overview
Provides state of the art for gas hydrate exploration
Treats various geophysical techniques in order to qualify gas hydrates reserves
Interdisciplinary approach
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
Gas hydrates are ice-like crystalline substances that form a rigid cage of water molecules and entrap hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gas by hydrogen bonding. Natural gas hydrate is primarily composed of water and methane. These are solid, crystalline, ice-like substances found in permafrost areas and deepwater basins around the world. They naturally occur in the pore space of marine sediments, where appropriate high pressure and low temperature conditions exist in an adequate supply of gas (mainly methane). Gas hydrates are considered as a potential non conventional energy resource. Methane hydrates are also recognized as, an influence on offshore platform stability, a major factor in climate change contributing to global warming and a significant contribution to the ocean carbon cycle. The proposed book treats various geophysical techniques in order to quantify the gas hydrate reserves and their impact on environment. The primary goal of this book is to provide the state of art for gas hydrate exploration. The target audiences for this book are non-specialist from different branches of science, graduate students and researchers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploration of Gas Hydrates
Book Subtitle: Geophysical Techniques
Authors: Sanjeev Rajput, Naresh Kumar Thakur
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14234-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14233-8Published: 09 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51957-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14234-5Published: 08 October 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 281
Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy