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DOE lab breakthrough could enhance gas, hydrate use

09/06/2010
By Nick Snow
A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural gas and the world's vast methane hydrate resources, DOE's Fossil Energy Office announced. FEO said the method for rapidly forming methane hydrates, along with concurrent development of specialized nozzles to facilitate the process, are breakthroughs that could lead to significant reductions in gas storage and transportation costs.Although gas provides about 25% of total US and global energy consumption, about one third of the world's gas resources are stranded—in remote places where transportation costs are to...
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