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November 30, 2008
USGS: 85.4T cubic feet of undiscovered, recoverable natural gas in Alaska
Cowbell anyone?
The USGS estimates that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope. This is the first-ever resource estimate of technically recoverable natural gas hydrates in the world...
More details here.
Podcast here.
Current gas reserves in North America are estimated to be in the 280T cubic feet range. Adding another 85T to that is a pretty big jump indeed.