Summary of Working Paper No. Northern Gas Fields and NGH Technology - A Feasibility Study to Develop Natural Gas Hydrate Technology for the International Gas Markets. In this study two different natural gas fields have been studied for three different technological solutions, using two different economic theories.
Natural gas is today an important source of energy world-wide.
In this study the emphasis is on costs of production and transportation. Exploration is considered already carried out and thus viewed as sunk cost. Distribution from the landing point to the consumers is not part of the study. Production can take place either onshore or offshore, and the natural gas can be transported to the market either by pipeline or ship. The transportation costs are becoming more and more important as a consequence of increasing distances from the fields to the markets.