13th INTERNATIONAL METHAN-GAS HYDRATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
This workshop was created so hydrate researchers and stakeholders could freely exchange information and identify research prioritiesin an effort to promote collaboration. The emphases of this workshop include:
1) Perspective Gas Hydrate Deposits: resource estimations, production conditions, problems and monitoring;
2) Advance of the National Programs for GHRD;
3) Production tests;
4) Advance methods for natural gas hydrate study;
5) Scientific Base for Bussiness Plans for Gas Hydrate Deposits exploitation: CCUS, CH4 & H2 production.
The workshop will include plenary lectures, oral presentations, posters, and breakout sessions.
The 1st International Workshop on Methane Hydrate R&D was held in March 2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Subsequent workshops have been, on average, every 1.5 years in different countries, including the U.S., Chile, Canada, U.K., Norway, Scotland, New Zealand, Japan, India and China.
The past ten workshops have been co-organized by Professors Bjørn Kvamme (Strategic Carbon), Tsutomu Uchida (Hokkaido University), Stephen Masutani (University of Hawaii), Richard Coffin (TAMU-CC) and Dr. Norio Tenma, (AIST).
With this strong international focus topics addressed include new energy, climate change, and innovative ecological decisions. This research is of special interest to Bulgaria because of the deposits of frozen methane in the Black Sea that have potential to increase the world’s energy supply, contribute to safe CCUS and produce clean CH4 and H2.
Bjørn Kvamme
The 13-th MGH-R&D Workshop will be hosted in Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (NVNA) in Varna.
IMHRD 13: From science to business plans
It is an important goal for the conference to be a forum for discussions between hydrate researchers and stakeholders with the goal to define and develop new future-oriented research projects and larger research programs. This particular workshop has a desire to put a strong focus on topics like use of unconventional energy sources (hydrate), climate change, and innovative ecological decisions. This research is of special interest to Bulgaria because of the deposits of frozen methane in the Black Sea that have potential to increase the world’s energy supply, contribute to safe CCUS and produce clean CH4 and H2.
Registration Fees:
- Early bird registration (until Feb 15, 2027): €850
- Regular registration (until Apr 15, 2027): €900
- Student registration (until Apr 15, 2027): €450
- Onsite registration: €950 (Regular); €470 (Student)
** not included Gala diner €50
The registration fee must be send by bank transfer to the NVNA’s bank account in DSK BANK *:
IBAN: BG87STSA93003106864001
SWIFT/BIC: STSABGSF
*In case of a refunding, a fee of 10% or at least minimum €20 will be charged.
Abstracts of conference papers must contain text only and be up to 250 words. The abstracts can be submitted by the Registration form.
Work language of the conference is English.
Abstracts can be submitted not later than 11 Jan, 2027
Notification of acceptance of submitted abstracts – 18 Jan, 2027
The full text of the conference paper must be formatted according to the attached guidelines and formatting template
One author may participate with no more than two papers, regardless of the number of co-authors.
The deadline for submitting papers is Feb 15, 2027
The full text of the paper should be sent to:
Angela Carter (acarter@calypsocom.com), Alessandra Garcia (Alessandra.garcia@tamucc.edu)
The papers will be peer-reviewed and will be published in a special issue of the Scientific Journal “Petroleum”.
