Trapped

Centrica Taking Bet on UK’s Shale Gas Resources

The UK’s leading energy retailer, Centrica, is taking a bet that shale gas resources in the country’s Bowland Basin are the real deal after making a hefty commitment in explorer Cuadrilla Resources Ltd.

June 14, 2013

Study: Gas in Arctic Is Mostly Russia’s

About 30% of the world’s undiscovered natural gas could be trapped beneath the land and waters of the Arctic north, according to a new assessment by geologists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Additionally, 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil could lie in the region.

June 1, 2009

Geologists: Lots of Gas in Arctic, Mostly Russia’s

About 30% of the world’s undiscovered natural gas could be trapped beneath the land and waters of the Arctic north, according to a new assessment by geologists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Additionally, 13% of the world’s undiscovered oil could lie in the region.

June 1, 2009

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?

Huge resources of methane gas, trapped in frozen hydrates at thebottom of the oceans, are piquing the interests of researchersworldwide who estimate gas reserves in deep, frigid waters to be asmuch as 500 times larger than conventional gas reserves. With therecent enactment of the Methane Hydrate Act of 2000, passed byCongress and signed last week by President Clinton, more attentionis expected to be focused on these untapped reserves.

May 8, 2000