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)