APPENDIX C
Presentations to the Committee
Meeting One—Washington, D.C.
Edith Allison, Department of Energy, Methane hydrates program at DOE: Program overview and study relevance
Ray Boswell, Department of Energy, Review of methane hydrate resource: Volume estimation
Meeting Two—Golden, Colorado
Timothy Collett, U.S. Geological Survey, Assessment of Gas Hydrate Resources on the North Slope, Alaska, 2008
Brenda Pierce, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Natural Gas Hydrates Activities
Matt Frye, Minerals Management Service, Minerals Management Service Gas Hydrate Resource Evaluation U.S. Outer Continental Shelf
Dendy Sloan, Colorado School of Mines, Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee Report to National Research Council Hydrate Committee Review
Robert Hunter and Scott Wilson, BP/Ryder Scott Co., Gas Hydrate Research, Stratigraphic Test, and Production Test Plans Alaska North Slope
Carlos Santamarina, Georgia Institute of Technology, Hydrate-Bearing Sediments: Physical Properties—Production
Meeting Three—Washington, D.C.
Emrys Jones, Chevron Corporation, Chevron/DOE Joint Industry Project for Methane Hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico
Debbie Hutchinson, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Studies and the Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates JIP
Carolyn Ruppel, U.S. Geological Survey, Prospecting for Hydrates-Evolution of Detection and Evaluation Approaches
Kenji Ohno, Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, Japan’s National Methane Hydrate R&D Program-Overview and Status
Yoshihiro Masuda, University of Tokyo, Development of Hydrate Reservoir Simulator (MH2J-HYDRES) in Japan’s National Methane Hydrate R&D Program
Helen Farrell and James Howard, ConocoPhillips, Experimental Basis CO2-CH4 Exchange for Production from Hydrate Reservoirs: Field-Test Plans
Ian McDonald, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Remote Sensing Detection of Active Hydrocarbon Seeps: Implications for Methane in the Sea
Tim Kneafsey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Hydrologic, Geomechanical, and Geophysical Measurements on Laboratory-Formed Hydrate-Bearing Samples