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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