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OIL SHALE – contains Kerogen
Tar sands – contain bitumen
Coal Deposits of the World- coal is the most widely distributed fossil fuel resource
World Coal Reserves
Coal Production
Coal Bed Methane Extraction
Methane Hydrates: methane surrounded by a cage of water molecules at low temperatures/high pressures
- estimated to contain over 2X the carbon of all other fossil fuel sources combined……
Estimated world reserves of Methane Hydrates:
400 million trillion ft3
(400,000,000,000,000,000,000)
(compared to 5,500 trillion ft3 of traditional gas reserves)