Fugro GeoConsulting Inc. was selected for two research awards by the U.S. Department of Energy to advance understanding of resource-grade gas hydrates.
The first award is for developing plans for a pressure-coring program to sample the gas hydrates that were identified during a Department of Energy funded drilling expedition in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico in 2009.
The second award is for developing methods and tools to better understand the gas hydrate reservoirs through seismic imaging and rock physics.
The Department of Energy calls gas hydrate “the world’s largest untapped fossil energy resource”.
The research and planning will be done by gas hydrate specialists and engineers in Fugro’s Houston offices with collaboration from Fugro scientists and engineers in the Netherlands. The amount of the research funding is $591,000.
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