FROZEN HEAT | Executive Summary
Gas hydrates resource potential by global regions
Arctic Ocean
Former Soviet Union
Canada
United States
Arctic Ocean
Japan
Europe
Former Soviet Union
China
Canada
North Africa
Middle East
Other East Asia
United States
Eastern Africa
India
Other Pacific Asia
Japan
Western and Central Africa
Europe
Other South Asia
China
Resource potential Median tcm
Oceania
North Africa
Middle East
Other East Asia
Southern Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
0.1 3 2 6
Eastern Africa
India
P
Western and Central Africa
Southern Ocean
Other South Asia
Resource potential Median tcf
Oc
Southern Africa
Source: Johnson 2011
Latin America and the Caribbean
196 100 50 5
Southern Ocean
Source: Johnson 2011 Summary Graphic 11: Gas hydrates resource potential by global regions. This figure includes only that subset of global in-place gas hydrates that appear to occur at high concentrations in sand-rich reservoirs. Source: Johnson, A. (2011). Global resource potential of gas hydrate – a new calculation. Proceedings of the 7th Int rnati nal Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 17–21, 2011.
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