Fugro GeoConsulting has been selected for two research awards totalling $591,000 by the US Department of Energy to advance understanding of resource-grade gas hydrates.
Netherlands-headquartered Fugro said the first award is for developing plans for a pressure-coring program to sample the gas hydrates that were identified during a Department of Energy funded drilling expedition in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico in 2009.
The second award is for developing methods and tools to better understand the gas hydrate reservoirs through seismic imaging and rock physics.