Gas Hydrates: Third International Conference : Challenges for the Future

This collection of papers covers a rich variety of topics related to gas hydrates that are important to chemical engineers and chemists, geophysicists and oceanographers, and petroleum engineers.

Topics covered include resource characterization and geophysics, off-shore hydrate engineering, production of gas from hydrates, hydrate kinetics, hydrate thermodynamics, mass transfer in gas hydrates, inhibition of hydrate formation in transportation lines, control of hydrates to make them more easily transportable, and properties of hydrates.

This volume helps to answer the dual questions of how gas and oil production is affected by hydrate formation and prevention (of immediate and critical interest to "current" energy supplies) and how hydrates might serve as a clean "future" energy supply.