Black Sea

WITH THE EVER-INCREASING CLIMATE warming urgency and depletion of known fossil fuel reserves, decision-makers and energy strategists are concentrating on new alternative fuels such as abundant renewable and waste energy sources, which used to be ignored due to their low quality (exergy). Exergy is the useful work potential of a quantity of energy. These alternatives are becoming the most important assets of our future.

SHALLOW GAS HYDRATES (GH) ZONES are important for earth sciences and economics for three main reasons. First, the methane leaks that occur in these zones are a direct indicator of the presence of hydrocarbon reserves in the depths, and they form cover rocks suitable for the accumulation of methane gas in the layers beneath them. Second, methane hydrates themselves are also an important source of energy. They are called “zipped gas” because they contain 164 times more gas than its volume.