Gas Hydrates

The hydrates of gas are solid, similar to the ice, made up of rigid cages of molecules of water that they contain molecules of gas, mainly methane. They can be formed and to remain stable to discharges pressures and relatively low temperatures, since present enough quantity of hydrocarbons. The quantity of present gas in the hydrates of gas postulated in the world is considered that could reach 18 x 10 15 m3 (6.5 x 10 5 TCF - American trillion cubic feet). The above mentioned means that there would be more carbon in the hydrates of gas than the acquaintance twice or estimated in the reservations of fossil fuels of the world. And that this energy source could replace the world necessities until the X XI Century. In Colombia two areas have been postulated with hydrates of Gas: the Colombian basin in the Caribbean Sea and the Panama Basin in the Pacific Ocean, with dear reservations of gas that overcome 120 and 300 TCF respectively. These quantities are very favorably compared with the conventional Colombian reservations of gas of only 11 TCF