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The first national NGH research program was initiated by U.S. Department of Energy Research Center (now NETL) in Morgantown, WV. This produced a body of work that generated considerable interest and confirmed that NGH could be a potential natural gas resource. Since then, considerable progress has been made in understanding the NGH genesis as part of a NGH petroleum system. Seismic exploration processing incorporating geotechnical effects of NGH formation has been developed sufficiently so that discoveries can now be brought to the level of a prospect. Japan established its national program in 1995 and has completed the world’s first technical production test of oceanic NGH on the 40 TCF Nankai NGH deposit in accordance with a planned timeline during March 2013. Part of the Nankai deposit is scheduled for production in 2018, which is only 5 years from the first production test. This is a near-term development timeline consistent with conventional deepwater field development. Other NGH developments may also be of a more near-term nature than has been thought possible until very recently.
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Max, M.D., Johnson, A.H., Dillon, W.P. (2013). Path to NGH Commercialization. In: Natural Gas Hydrate - Arctic Ocean Deepwater Resource Potential. SpringerBriefs in Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02508-7_6
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