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Table
1. Gas hydrate recovery rates in offshore continental slope regions
(>500 meters water depth) collected from SGE piston coring programs.
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#
of Cores
|
Hydrate
Cores
|
Percent
|
| |
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Northern
Gulf of Mexicoa
|
|
|
|
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Central/Eastern
Gulf (1997-1999)
|
425
|
28
|
6.6
|
|
Western
Gulf of Mexico (1997-1999)
|
361
|
8
|
2.2
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Total
Northern Gulf
|
786
|
36
|
4.6
|
| |
|
West
Africa
|
|
|
|
|
1994
Nigerian Deep Waterb
|
310
|
6
|
1.9
|
|
1996
Nigerian Deep & Ultra Deep
|
186
|
6
|
3.2
|
| 1998
Nigerian Deep & Ultra Deep |
330
|
9
|
2.7
|
Total Nigeria
|
826
|
21
|
2.5
|
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|
|
|
|
Gabon
(1994-1998)
|
307
|
0
|
0.0
|
|
Congo
(1997-1998)
|
16
|
0
|
0.0
|
|
Angolan
(1994-1998)
|
1,330
|
0
|
0.0
|
| Namibia
(1994) |
90
|
0
|
0.0
|
Total Non-Nigeria
|
1,743
|
0
|
0.0
|
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|
Northern
Californiac
|
|
|
|
| Eel
River |
74
|
7
|
9.5
|
|
Point
Arena
|
90
|
0
|
0.0
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a
These Gulf of Mexico core numbers only represent those cores obtained
by the author since 1996 and do not include several thousand additional
SGE cores obtained prior to 1996.
b
After Brooks et al. (5)
c
After Brooks et al. (6)
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