Gas Hydrates III
SUGAR - Submarine Gas Hydrate Deposits: Exploitation, Mining and Transport
In summer 2008, the SUGAR project (Submarine Gas Hydrate Reservoirs) was launched in Germany. The project aims to produce natural gas from marine methane hydrates and to sequester carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and other industrial sources as CO2-hydrate in marine sediments. This large-scale national project is funded by two federal ministries and German industries. The total funding is 13 Mio. € over an initial funding period of three years. The project has 30 institutional partners from academia and industries and is coordinated at the Kiel-based Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR). SUGAR's main objectives are:
- research on the production of natural gas
- the evaluation of environmental risks of hydrate exploitation
- the possibilities of carbon capture and storage (CCS)
- the development of new technologies within the SUGAR project
More on the SUGAR project at the SUGAR-Homepage at the IfM-GEOMAR.
Co-ordination:
Prof. Klaus Wallmann, IFM-GEOMAR
Dr. Jörg Bialas, IFM-GEOMAR
Partners:
IFM-GEOMAR
SEND Signal Elektronik GmbH
IES Gesellschaft für Integrierte Explorationssysteme mbH
L-3 Communications ELAC Nautik GmbH
BGR Hannover
MAGSON
KUM Umwelt und Meerestechnik Kiel GmbH
