A Hydrate Database: Vital to the Technical Community

Natural gas hydrates may contain more energy than all the combined other fossil fuels, causing hydrates to be a potentially vital aspect of both energy and climate change. This article is an overview of the motivation, history, and future of hydrate data management using a CODATA vehicle to connect...

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Main Authors: D Sloan, F Kuznetsov, K Lal, R Loewner, Y Makogon, G Moridis, J Ripmeester, Jean-Jacques Royer, T Smith, B Tohidi, T Uchida, J Wang, W Wang, Y Xiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2007-06-01
Series:Data Science Journal
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Online Access:http://datascience.codata.org/articles/533
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Summary:Natural gas hydrates may contain more energy than all the combined other fossil fuels, causing hydrates to be a potentially vital aspect of both energy and climate change. This article is an overview of the motivation, history, and future of hydrate data management using a CODATA vehicle to connect international hydrate databases. The basis is an introduction to the Gas Hydrate Markup Language (GHML) to connect various hydrate databases. The accompanying four articles on laboratory hydrate data by Smith et al., on field hydrate data by L?wner et al., on hydrate modeling by Wang et al., and on construction of a Chinese gas hydrate system by Xiao et al. provide details of GHML in their respective areas.
ISSN:1683-1470